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    Wild Edibles & Foraging

    This theme highlights the practice of foraging for wild edibles and traditional foods found in forests, emphasizing their nutritional value.

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    In your area, citizens highlight the immense value of traditional forest foods 🌳 as a primary source of diverse and highly nutritious sustenance, deeply ingrained in their culture and contributing to the health of past generations. There's a strong desire to integrate these natural, chemical-free foods—including various greens, fruits, tubers, and mushrooms—into modern public programs like the Public Distribution System (PDS) and midday school meals 💡. This integration would not only preserve traditional diets but also provide vital nourishment to children and communities, acknowledging the inherent health benefits and traditional wisdom associated with these indigenous resources.

    Dominant Themes

    Nutritional Value of Forest Foods
    Diversity of Edible Forest Produce
    Integration into Public Food Programs (PDS/Midday Meals)
    Preservation of Traditional Dietary Practices
    Community Health and Well-being

    Actionable Recommendations

    • 🔬 🍎 📚Conduct a comprehensive study of locally available nutritious forest foods to identify varieties suitable for inclusion in public food programs like PDS and midday meals.
    • 🏫 🍽 🌱Develop and implement pilot programs to integrate selected forest produce into school midday meals, ensuring a balanced and culturally appropriate nutritious diet for children.
    • 🤝 🌰 🛒Establish local procurement and processing mechanisms for forest foods to support community livelihoods and ensure a sustainable supply for public distribution.

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    ODISHA, INDIA69 voices MADHYA PRADESH, INDIA15 voices UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA11 voices CHHATTISGARH, INDIA5 voices JHARKHAND, INDIA3 voices RAJASTHAN, INDIA1 voice

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    🌳 🤲 🍎

    We get various greens and various fruits from the forest.

    — Laba Kumar sabar · Bada Baridi, Rayagada, Odisha

    🌳 🤲 🥦

    From the forest, we also get many things as vegetables, such as

    — Kekti Tekam

    🌳 🍎 😋

    Forest food

    — Abhimaneu Sabar

    🌳 🍄 🧺

    Forest food collection

    — Suna majhi · Kulusingi, Rayagada, Odisha

    🌳 🍎 😋

    Forest Food

    — Abhimaneu Sabar

    🌳 🤲 🍎

    We get various types of fruits and roots from the forest.

    — Laba Kumar sabar · Bada Baridi, Rayagada, Odisha

    🌳 🧺 ✅

    From the forest, we get leafy vegetables, tubers, mushrooms, and fruits. All these kinds of things are available.

    — Laba Kumar sabar · Bada Baridi, Rayagada, Odisha

    🌳 🤲 🍎

    Forest-derived food includes fresh bamboo shoots, bamboo sago, and Kendu fruit, among others. We obtain our food from the forest.

    — S Guruteli · Upperpur, Malkangiri, Odisha

    🌳 🥬 😋

    We used to eat greens from the forest, including Madhuranga greens, Nautia greens, Marisa greens, and all those other types of greens.

    — Sanjukta Arukh · Tamando, Khordha, Odisha

    🌳 🍎 💪

    We get our nutritious diet from the forest, such as Mahua fruit Doli oil in the form of fat, Kodo, Bhaddi, Kulthia, Mahua flowers, Jamun, Mahua kheer, Bhaji, etc.

    — Surajsingh Parmar · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

    🌳 🤲 🌾

    Grains and other food items are included from the forest.

    — Sunita Kumari

    🌳 🤲 🍚

    Grains, food, and foodstuffs are included from the forest.

    — Sunita Kumari

    🌳 🧺 😋

    We are getting all kinds of seasonal produce from the forest.

    — Laba Kumar sabar · Lamingi, Rayagada, Odisha

    🌳 🥬 💪

    Nutritious food found in the forest: Mudhi saga, Chhati saga, Bhadbhadia saga, Koila saga, Munga saga, Ghumi saga, Tartha saga.

    — Parsuram Sa · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌳 🧺 🍎

    In the forest, we find greens, wild tubers, mushrooms, fruits, and roots of all kinds in every season.

    — Laba Kumar sabar · Bada Baridi, Rayagada, Odisha

    🌳 🍎 💪

    Forest products such as Jharakunduru, Pitalu Konda, and various other types of edible forest produce are available. These also serve as food for animals and birds, and consuming them provides nourishment.

    — Anirudha Marai

    🌳 🍎 💪

    Nutritious diet from the forest: seasonal fruits, jamun, mahua, mango, charoli, jaggery, peanuts, and Shegaon vegetables.

    — Surajsingh Parmar · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

    🌿 🤲 🍎

    The edible items found in the forest are Kendu, Chaar, and Mahua, which

    — Vijay Kumar bhardwaj · Kasdol, Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh

    🌳 🥬 👶

    It is true that bringing vegetables and leafy greens from the forest provides nutritious food for a growing body.

    — Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

    🌳 🥬 💪

    Nutritious diet includes forest vegetables like Mocha Kolyar greens.

    — Kachala Choudhary

    🌳 🍄 🍽️

    From the forest, we collect ruguda mushrooms, mudhi saag, kuiler saag, girel flowers, bhindua kadi, and so on. If all these are nutritious foods for us, they should be included in the midday meal.

    — RINA BEHERA · Hemagiri, Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌳 🧑‍🌾 🍎

    Currently, we are seeing that people are gradually obtaining the fruits, medicinal plants, greens, and nutritious food that were available in the forest.

    — Ramadas Badanayak · Udulibeda, Malkangiri, Odisha

    🌳 🔎 💊

    Vitamin food in the forest. Katukola berries were found. These are Banasula, tea, Kendu.

    — Dhananjaya Harpal · Sargigora, Kalahandi, Odisha

    🌳 🍰 👴

    We used to gather forest products like mahua, cook them, make cakes, and eat them in the forest. Even now, we will learn from our ancestors.

    — Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌳 🤲 🌿

    Listeners bring greens, wood, Pohri, and pootu from the forest.

    — Kekti Tekam

    🌳 🍎 🍽️

    We can give fruits found in the forest like :- Tendu, Char, Aonla in our lunch.

    — Upendra Kumar Mahananda

    🌳 🍎 😋

    In our forests, various edible fruits and flowers like Chhode ki Bhanji, Patari, Peepar, Katto, Laheren, Kotwal, Bhanji, Fisdi, Gadsukhadi, Banspihari, and many others are found.

    — Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

    🌿 🍽️ 💪

    The most nutritious forest foods are Kolyar Bhaji, Mokha Ki Bhaji, Segwa, etc.

    — Kachala Choudhary

    🌳 🥔 🍽️

    Nutritious local tubers like Pitikanda, Charendakanda, and Naangalakanda, found in the forest, can be included in dishes.

    — Padmalochan Majhi · Ratachua, Rayagada, Odisha

    🌳 🧺 🥕

    Ans - In ancient times, people used to bring tubers, leafy vegetables, fruits, and roots from the forest and eat them. They also ate boiled leafy vegetables. Village - Kutiguda Name - Devendra Madkami

    — Champa Gatan · Pujariguda, Malkangiri, Odisha

    🌳 🍄 🍽️

    They collect mushrooms and ghuhaar greens from the forests and prepare them as vegetables to eat, and within that same group.

    — MANNOO LAL BHOI · Kasdol, Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh

    🌳 🍎 😬

    Yes, it is food eaten in the forest, which we include as food. Oh oh.

    — Rakesh kumar Kumar

    🌿 🍽️ 💪

    Before, we used to eat saag roti, kurthi dal, urad dal, and mahua saag. Sometimes we would find amla and bael from the forest, and that's how we used to sustain our lives.

    — Ram Kumari · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

    🌿 🌰 ⬆️

    In the forest, along with other bushes, edible bushes also used to have more charoli and temri.

    — Surajsingh Parmar · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

    🌳 🥬 🌟

    The naturally available wild forest food is highly nutritious. The forest has a large amount of leafy greens and also fruits. Pitin also has high nutritional value.

    — Rajesh Mallik · Boudh, Odisha

    🌳 🤲 🍎

    The things found in the forest are fruits and roots, such as Kendu, Char, Mahua, and Amla.

    — Laxmi Bagh · Subdega, Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌳 🍄 🏘️

    When we talk about locally available food, our Kurudi mushrooms, along with Siali and Kendu, are all such forest foods.

    — gobardhan pangi

    🌳 🥬 😋

    Wants to eat Mukhani bhaji and Khatta Aamdi bhaji from the forest.

    — Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

    🌳 🤲 🌱

    From the forest, we bring mahua and mahua seeds.

    — Kekti Tekam

    🏹 🍓 🌾

    Obtaining food by hunting wild animals in the forest, eating fruits and flowers, and growing grains.

    — bachcha lal · Shahganj, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

    🌿Wild Foraging & Nutrition46 voices
    🍎Forest Food & Public Nutrition40 voices
    🍄Traditional Forest Foods26 voices
    💊Medicinal Forest Resources22 voices
    🌱Forest Plants & Nutrition13 voices
    🌳Forest Economy & Products3 voices