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Indigenous Food Gardening

This theme explores the cultivation of crops and vegetables, often with indigenous knowledge, for food and gardening.

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The Voice Summary

In your area, communities are actively engaged in diverse agricultural practices, with a strong emphasis on preserving traditional and local seed varieties 🌱. Submissions highlight the cultivation of a wide range of crops, particularly pulses (like chickpeas, peas, lentils, various grams) and millets (including pearl millet, kodo millet, finger millet) which are often suitable for low-irrigation and rain-fed farming 💧. There's also a noted reliance on natural resources and the storing of seeds for future seasons, indicating robust local food security practices 🌾.

Dominant Themes

Preservation of Traditional & Local Seeds

Cultivation of Pulses & Millets

Low-Irrigation & Rain-fed Farming Practices

Diverse Crop Cultivation

Community Seed Saving

Actionable Recommendations

🌱 🤝 🏡Establish programs to support and recognize local communities' efforts in preserving indigenous and drought-resistant seed varieties.
💧 🌾 📚Provide resources and knowledge-sharing platforms for sustainable, low-irrigation agricultural techniques, particularly for pulse and millet cultivation.
🔎 🗺 🧑Conduct further studies to document and valorize the rich diversity of crops and traditional farming knowledge present in different regions.

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🌱 🤲 🌾

Wheat, chickpea, toria and local indigenous seeds.

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

🌾 🌍 ✨

These are wheat, chickpea, toria, and local Rajasthani seeds.

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

🌾 🥔 🥕

Wheat, potato, radish

— अमर जीत · Kewata, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

🌾 🥔 🥕

Wheat potato radish

— अमर जीत · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

🌱 🤲 🌈

We have seeds like flat beans, runner beans, chickpea, pumpkin, etc.

— jitendra khila · kudumulugumma, Malkangiri, Odisha

🫛 🌾 🌿

Peas wheat mustard

— Vinita Singh Yadav · Dharura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

❄️ 🌾 🌶️

Local winter sorghum, chickpeas and field beans and flat beans, chillies.

— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

🌱 ➕ 🥣

Chickpea, peas, mustard, horse gram

— अमर जीत · Kon, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

🌾 🫘 🌿

Millet Chickpea Mustard

— Vinita Singh Yadav · Dharura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

🌱 🚜 🌾

Cultivation of chickpea, pea, mustard

— Vinita Singh Yadav · Dharura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

🌾 ➕ 🥣

Finger millet, black gram, green gram, etc.

— Abhimaneu Sabar

🌱 🌿 🍽️

Chickpea, pea, mustard

— अमर जीत · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

🫘 🫛 🌱

Chickpea peas mustard horse gram

— अमर जीत · Kon, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

🌱 🌾 🥬

Pulses, millet, grains, and green leafy vegetables

— Maya kumari Damor

🌾 🌱 🌈

Pearl millet, corn, Kodo millet, Mejhari, Barnyard millet, Black gram, Chickpea.

— Kamleah Kumar · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

🌱 🌾 🥣

Mustard peas barley lentils

— arun raja · Kon, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

🌱 🌿 🌳

It includes crops like Dhaincha, Lobia, and Moong. Fertilizer materials are included in the forest.

— Kamleah Kumar · Ormaura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

👑 🌱 🌍

Bhaji leafy greens seeds, cluster beans, taro, turmeric, and Jani are all ancestral seeds. All these grow in fertile soil.

— Anirudha Marai

🌱 🌈 ✅

Soya, Kangu, Jarna, and other varieties.

— Abhimaneu Sabar

🌾 🌳 🍲

which includes crops like Sesbania, Cowpea, and Mung bean. The forest includes food items.

— Kamleah Kumar · Ormaura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

🌾 ⛰️ 🍚

Green Gram, Bir, Mandya Pigeon Peas, a heap of Sorghum, Sua Tanggu, etcetera.

— Abhimaneu Sabar

🌱 ✅ 🍽️

Many seeds like chickpea, lentil, and pigeon pea are suitable.

— Sunita Kumari

🧑‍🌾 🌱 🌾

They cultivate chickpeas, mustard, and peas.

— Vinita Singh Yadav · Mukasim, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

🟡 🫘 🫛

Mustard Chickpea Pea

— Vinita Singh Yadav · Mukasim, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

🫘 🌶️ 🥣

Chickpeas, peas, mustard

— Vinita Singh Yadav · Dharura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

🌱 🫛 🌿

Chickpeas, peas, mustard.

— अमर जीत · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

🌿 🫘 🍲

Dill spinach, pigeon pea, mung bean

— अमर जीत · Kon, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

🌱 🌾 🫘

Flaxseed Wheat Chickpea

— Vinita Singh Yadav · Dharura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

🌱 🫛 🧺

You can cultivate peas and chickpeas.

— Sunita Kumari

🌱 🌾 🍽️

Ragi, Foxtail Millet, Moong

— srinu salbam · MPV 54, Malkangiri, Odisha

🌱 🤲 🌾

We save and sow our traditional seeds. Such as chickpea, sorghum, Bhadi, pearl millet, etc.

— Vijay kanesh · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

🍚 🌰 🥭

Moringa, rice and Chironji nuts, mango pickle, local rice, etc.

— Surajsingh Parmar · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

🟡 🫘 🫛

mustard chickpeas peas

— Vinita Singh Yadav · Dharura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

🌾 🍲 😋

barley, jujube, peas, chickpeas, red lentils, bhatura, flaxseed, kodo millet, mijri

— arun raja · Kon, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

🌱 🫘 🥣

Lentil cultivation, chickpea cultivation

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

🌱 🧑‍🌾 🫛

Cultivation of peas and chickpeas

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

🌱 ⬆️ 🍽️

Cultivation of peas and chickpeas

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

🌱 🏡 🍚

Paddy, finger millet, little millet, pigeon pea, jute seeds. Village - Te Muru Pali, Malkangiri.

— Ramadas Badanayak · Udulibeda, Malkangiri, Odisha

🌾 🌱 🥣

Barley, sorghum, millet

— Vinita Singh Yadav · Dharura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

🌱 🌾 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

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