A dimension within Seed Preservation & Storage
Emphasizes the significance of local seeds and grains for ensuring food security and preserving heritage crops.
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By preserving our traditional, rain-fed seeds and planting them with care, we ensure food for our families and fodder for our animals.
We carefully save seeds from our diverse crops like chickpeas, lentils, and mustard, ensuring we can grow them again next year and maintain our livelihood.
By carefully collecting and preserving seeds from our first harvest, we ensure a second, nutritious crop and maintain our traditional farming methods for generations.
Our ancestors taught us to protect our traditional crop seeds using natural methods, ensuring food for the next year.
Yes, we save our local seeds. The most precious seeds for the family are wheat, chickpeas, peas, paddy, etc. Seeds are precious.
— Vimala
For our family, the most valuable seeds are pulse seeds, paddy seeds, etc.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
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
Our family members save local seeds, among which the most precious seeds for us are native paddy seeds and combustion.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
Yes, we save seeds, and for our family, the main pulse is valuable seed.
— Anita Punem
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
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 store our own seeds ourselves. Especially for us, Kandul Kandul seed is very important for our family.
— Jogeshwar Naik · Kalahandi, Odisha
We save our traditional seeds that we have inherited.
— Vijay kanesh · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
This seed was received from our ancestors, which we save.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
We save and sow our traditional seeds. Such as chickpea, sorghum, Bhadi, pearl millet, etc.
— Vijay kanesh · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
The most valuable seeds for our family are pulses and oilseeds.
— Sunil oraon · Gumla, Jharkhand
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
Precious seeds: Pearl millet, Black gram, Sorghum, Bhaadi Kodo millet, Barnyard millet, Bati.
— Kachala Choudhary
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
Local seeds should be preserved. Just like the most precious seed in your family, which has been inherited through old traditions, it should be kept safe. It will be useful in the future and does not spoil quickly.
— Anil Pargi · Maliya Dokar, Banswara, Rajasthan
Yes, we save old seeds.
— Kachala Choudhary
We preserve old seeds for sowing work, which explicitly includes Moong, Kili, and Mustard.
— Vijay Kumar bhardwaj · Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh
Jowar, Bhadi, and Kodo were precious seeds.
— Kachala Choudhary
We have received our traditional native seeds from our ancestors, which we conserve and protect for the coming generation.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
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 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
We conserve paddy seeds.
— Vinita Singh Yadav · Dharura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We conserve paddy seeds
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
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
Moong and Urad seeds are valuable to us.
— Chitta Ranjan Sahu · Malakanagiri, Malkangiri, Odisha
Yes, I am also protecting. Moong, urad, and horse gram seeds are valuable for the family.
— anita khora · Sirsi, Koraput, Odisha
We also preserve seeds in a traditional way.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
Chickpeas and gumbra are our old seeds, which we preserve and then sow.
— Vinita Singh Yadav · Mukasim, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Yes, we cultivate and preserve traditional seeds.
— Selina Pangi
Jowar are precious seeds.
— Kachala Choudhary
We carefully keep the chickpea seeds so that we can cultivate next year.
— Sunita Kumari
These seeds are inherited, given by our ancestors.
— Kachala Choudhary
Our precious seed is sorghum.
— Kachala Choudhary
We save old seeds so that they do not become extinct or disappear in the future. We save them so that they remain available in the future and can be cultivated.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
Precious young seeds, along with paddy and wheat, are remaining, which should be maintained every year.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Yes, we preserve natural seeds here.
— Vijay kanesh
These native seeds were inherited by us from our ancestors.
— Sunil oraon · Verno, Gumla, Jharkhand
