A dimension within Preserving Traditional Seeds
This theme discusses the preservation and storage of traditional seeds to maintain food heritage.
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We also preserve seeds in a traditional way.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
And they keep the seeds safe in their old earthen storage.
— Kekti Tekam · Dindori, Madhya Pradesh
The seed is traditionally preserved.
— SUKDEV HEMBRAM · Patamda, East Singhbhum, Jharkhand
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 save our traditional seeds that we have inherited.
— Vijay kanesh · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
For seed preservation, we store the seeds in bamboo storage.
— Kachala Choudhary
Chickpeas and gumbra are our old seeds, which we preserve and then sow.
— Vinita Singh Yadav · Mukasim, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Yes, we save old seeds.
— Kachala Choudhary
Traditionally, seeds are preserved in a way that is called Bandhi in Santali and Dhanpura or Chalpura or Kurthipura in Bengali.
— SUKDEV HEMBRAM · East Singhbhum, Jharkhand
We used to keep indigenous seeds in a mud storage. Then we would sow them.
— Hariparkash kharadi · Katarwas Khurd, Udaipur, Rajasthan
Nature preserves the entire seeds. We also cultivate and sow what our ancestors were sowing, and preserve it as seeds.
— Ram Maravi
We save and sow our traditional seeds. Such as chickpea, sorghum, Bhadi, pearl millet, etc.
— Vijay kanesh · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
Yes, we cultivate and preserve traditional seeds.
— Selina Pangi
We conserve paddy seeds.
— Vinita Singh Yadav · Dharura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We conserve paddy seeds
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We traditionally keep the seeds and cultivate in the coming year.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha
This seed was received from our ancestors, which we save.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
Yes, we preserve natural seeds here.
— Vijay kanesh
In traditional farming methods, to preserve seeds, we need to conserve the oldest and indigenous varieties of seeds.
— Ram Maravi · Dindori, Madhya Pradesh
We preserve old seeds for sowing work, which explicitly includes Moong, Kili, and Mustard.
— Vijay Kumar bhardwaj · Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh
We have traditional seeds here like Saadia, paddy, pigeon pea, semi-native gourds, Karaiguta, Chipra, etc. We preserve these every year and cultivate them using old traditional methods without irrigation.
— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
They conserve TC and paddy seeds.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Yes, pulses are cultivated in this. According to our ancestors, we also preserve seeds.
— Jagannath Baraik · Bayang, Seraikela-Kharsawan, Jharkhand
We have received our traditional native seeds from our ancestors, which we conserve and protect for the coming generation.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
Yes, we save our traditional seeds, but now the seeds have run out.
— 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
Even today, in our tribal areas, the method of traditional seed conservation by ancestors is adopted.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
We save the seeds for planting next time.
— Kachala Choudhary
We cultivate seeds such as chickpea, lentil, mustard, and horse gram using traditional, possibly rain-fed, farming methods. We preserve these seeds and cultivate them using this traditional agricultural practice.
— Laxmi Sahu
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
We store moong pulse seeds using traditional methods and sow the seeds as a Rabi crop with zero irrigation after the Kharif season crop harvest.
— Ahalya Sahu · Kalahandi, Odisha
We carefully keep the chickpea seeds so that we can cultivate next year.
— Sunita Kumari
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
They keep Sawa Mejhari seeds.
— अमर जीत · Churk, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
They keep chickpea and lentil seeds.
— Vinita Singh Yadav · Dharura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
They keep wheat and barley seeds.
— अमर जीत · Kota, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We will practice traditional farming and save seeds for next year.
— Sathimambalaka · Tado, Rayagada, Odisha
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
Yes, we practice traditional farming and also conserve indigenous seeds.
— Sukhdas Mandavi · Mohla, Mohla-Manpur-Ambagarh Chowki, Chhattisgarh
Our task of storing seeds involved keeping them in our mud granaries. We kept other seeds separately for eating. These were traditional mud granaries made of mud from our ancestors' time, and they were used for farming.
— Hariparkash kharadi · Vijayanagar, Sabarkantha, Gujarat
