Sowing & Planting Seeds

Yes, yes, we will keep the old seeds. You yourself will purify it in the government's share. In our own share, we ourselves will purify it. Oh, we will keep the seeds accordingly. Oh, sow that.

— Jogeshwar Naik · Kalahandi, Odisha

Then we keep the seeds at home, and when the sowing season arrives, we split those seeds and sow them.

— pinku sunani · Karangamāl, Nuapada, Odisha

We save the seeds for planting next time.

— Kachala Choudhary

We traditionally keep the seeds and cultivate in the coming year.

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha

We cultivate for a second time. Then, we personally collect and save those seeds so that we can cultivate again next year.

— Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha

We carefully keep the chickpea seeds so that we can cultivate next year.

— Sunita Kumari

Chickpeas and gumbra are our old seeds, which we preserve and then sow.

— Vinita Singh Yadav · Mukasim, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

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 will cultivate mustard, green gram, and other crops, store their seeds, and cultivate them again next year.

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

We save flax seeds for next year so that they can be sown in the field again.

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

We will cultivate mustard, moong, and other crops, save the seeds, and cultivate them again next year.

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

When we cultivate for the second time, we save those seeds from the produce itself to cultivate again next year.

— Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha

We keep seeds and grow a second crop.

— Puspanjali Nag

Nature preserves the entire seeds. We also cultivate and sow what our ancestors were sowing, and preserve it as seeds.

— Ram Maravi

We preserve old seeds for sowing work, which explicitly includes Moong, Kili, and Mustard.

— Vijay Kumar bhardwaj · Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh

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

— Vijay kanesh · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

We will cultivate green gram and black gram this year and save the seeds for cultivation next year.

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

We stored the chickpea seeds carefully so that we can cultivate next year.

— Sunita Kumari

We conserve pea seeds so that we can cultivate next year.

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

We have cultivated moong and urad this rainy season. We will keep the seeds and cultivate again next rainy season.

— Gitanjali Bhoi

This year, we will cultivate moong, urad, and gram, save the seeds, and cultivate those same seeds again next year.

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha

We save our traditional seeds that we have inherited.

— Vijay kanesh · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

Yes, we save old seeds.

— Kachala Choudhary

We save the chickpeas so that we can cultivate them next year.

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

We will save these lentils and chickpeas to use as seeds for next year's farming.

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

We are cultivating moong and urad beans. We have kept seeds and will cultivate again next year.

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

We cultivated moong and urad dal this year and saved the seeds to cultivate again next year.

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

When we store farmer's seeds, we sow them in the field during the second cultivation.

— Puspanjali Nag

This year we will cultivate rice, keep the seeds ready to cultivate next year.

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

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 will practice traditional farming and save seeds for next year.

— Sathimambalaka · Tado, Rayagada, Odisha

We have cultivated green gram this year. We will save the seeds and cultivate again next year.

— Gitanjali Bhoi

After Anukuta, we observe the soil moisture, plow the field, and sow green gram and black gram. We keep these seeds stored at home.

— Bharati Khandapatra · Mayurbhanj, Odisha

We conserve our local seeds ourselves.

— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand

We keep green gram, black gram, and horse gram seeds, and cultivate them in the second crop.

— Puspanjali Nag

We will cultivate a second crop, preserve the seeds, and cultivate for the upcoming year as well.

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

This year, we have cultivated green gram, black gram, and chickpeas. We will save the seeds to cultivate them again next year.

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha

This year, we have cultivated paddy and saved the seeds to cultivate again next year.

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

For the second crop, we cultivate seeds such as moong, urad, and arhar. We save those seeds to cultivate them again the following year.

— RINA BEHERA · Hemagiri, Sundargarh, Odisha

We are cultivating paddy this year. We will save the seeds and cultivate next year. No

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha