A dimension within Heritage Seed Preservation
This theme addresses the role of local seeds, pulses, and paddy in ensuring food security within agriculture.
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For our family, the most valuable seeds are pulse seeds, paddy seeds, etc.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
Yes, we save our local seeds. The most precious seeds for the family are wheat, chickpeas, peas, paddy, etc. Seeds are precious.
— Vimala
Yes, I collect my own seeds. Mung and Black Gram are the most valuable seeds for our family. I have horse gram, black gram, bajra (pearl millet) and Mugeisal rice as old seeds. For us...
— gadadhar dash
We save stable seeds and kuluth seeds are valuable for our family. We have old seeds like millet, kuluth, moong. We sell them and use them as food.
— Basanti · Dashapalla, Nayagarh, Odisha
Yes, we save seeds, and for our family, the main pulse is valuable seed.
— Anita Punem
The most valuable seeds for our family are pulses and oilseeds.
— Sunil oraon · Gumla, Jharkhand
Our family members save local seeds, among which the most precious seeds for us are native paddy seeds and combustion.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
We store our own seeds ourselves. Especially for us, Kandul Kandul seed is very important for our family.
— Jogeshwar Naik · Kalahandi, Odisha
Our precious seed jowar, urad
— Kachala Choudhary
We save seeds at our location and keep them for our family. And saving old seeds in a traditional way is our
— Anil Pargi
We used to cultivate various crops extensively. Additionally, I cultivated mustard, moong bean, guava, horse gram, etc. All these seeds are important for my family.
— RINA BEHERA · Sundargarh, Odisha
Yes, I am also protecting. Moong, urad, and horse gram seeds are valuable for the family.
— anita khora · Sirsi, Koraput, Odisha
We save and sow our traditional seeds. Such as chickpea, sorghum, Bhadi, pearl millet, etc.
— Vijay kanesh · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
Moong and Urad seeds are valuable to us.
— Chitta Ranjan Sahu · Malakanagiri, Malkangiri, Odisha
We save our traditional seeds that we have inherited.
— Vijay kanesh · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
We preserve old seeds for sowing work, which explicitly includes Moong, Kili, and Mustard.
— Vijay Kumar bhardwaj · Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh
In our region, we save and conserve our local seeds such as indigenous oilseed seeds, indigenous pulse seeds, and paddy seeds.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
And our local seeds are paddy, jowar, and among pulses there is tur, and groundnut, so we rely on our local seeds.
— Kachala Choudhary · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
Precious seeds: Pearl millet, Black gram, Sorghum, Bhaadi Kodo millet, Barnyard millet, Bati.
— Kachala Choudhary
Our royal forefathers used to cultivate Birahi, Kulut, Mukh, Deshoris, and Badam in their lands. And all these seeds are very important for us.
— RINA BEHERA · Sundargarh, Odisha
We have inherited the seeds of Bhaadi, Kodra, Bati, Jowar.
— Kachala Choudhary
We have the oldest seeds of pulses, oilseeds, and rice that we have preserved.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
This seed was received from our ancestors, which we save.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
Yes, we save old seeds.
— Kachala Choudhary
Our ancestors have been cultivating Kodo, Barnyard, Foxtail, Finger millet, Horse gram, and Barley since ancient times, which are very nutritious. We always preserve their seeds and cultivate them every year.
— Ram Kumari · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Yes, pulses are cultivated in this. According to our ancestors, we also preserve seeds.
— Jagannath Baraik · Bayang, Seraikela-Kharsawan, Jharkhand
The rice crop we cultivate, the valuable horse gram of our family; our ancestors have provided us with green gram, black gram, horse gram, and finger millet.
— Basanti · Nayagarh, Odisha
Chickpeas and gumbra are our old seeds, which we preserve and then sow.
— Vinita Singh Yadav · Mukasim, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We conserve paddy seeds.
— Vinita Singh Yadav · Dharura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
For our family, the most cherished seed is the bean seed. Our ancestors also used to cultivate it. We have been continuing this tradition. Preserve it.
— Jogeshwar Naik · Kalahandi, Odisha
We cultivate a second crop. The valuable seed of our family is Horse gram. Our ancestors have given us Green gram, Black gram, Horse gram, and Finger millet. We follow the farming methods of our ancestors.
— Basanti · Nayagarh, Odisha
We conserve paddy seeds
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Yes, we grow other crops and also preserve seeds like black gram, pigeon pea, and green gram.
— Jagannath Baraik · Ranchi, Jharkhand
We store the seeds of ridge gourd, hyacinth beans, bottle gourd, water chestnut, bitter gourd, and sponge gourd at home and cultivate them annually.
— Laxmi Bagh · Subdega, Sundargarh, Odisha
We preserve the pulse crops that we have received from our ancestors.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
We have traditional moong and urad dal. We cultivate them generation after generation. I will tell you what we have preserved.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha
The oldest seeds we have. Millet, foxtail millet, horse gram, green gram, lentils.
— Batakrushna Sahoo
Oh, you have kept those valuable moong beans for me in our family.
— Madan Hantal · Pujariguda, Malkangiri, Odisha
Yes, we cultivate and preserve traditional seeds.
— Selina Pangi
These seeds have been inherited by us through many generations. We preserve them with the thought that they might not be available to us in the future or could become extinct.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
