A dimension within Mango Market Dynamics
This theme focuses on local food production, seeds, crops, and farming practices.
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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
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
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
Moringa, rice and Chironji nuts, mango pickle, local rice, etc.
— Surajsingh Parmar · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
We do farming. We save some seeds beforehand and then cultivate. This way, we get many crops, including green gram, black gram, and pigeon pea.
— Ulapi Sahu · Balangir, Odisha
And our local seeds are paddy, jowar, and among pulses there is tur, and groundnut, so we rely on our local seeds.
— Kachala Choudhary · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
Here, we grow varieties of crops like paddy, black gram, pigeon pea, Kodo millet, Little millet, Barnyard millet, and others.
— Ram Maravi · Dindori, Madhya Pradesh
Finger millet, black gram, green gram, etc.
— Abhimaneu Sabar
Ragi, Foxtail Millet, Moong
— srinu salbam · MPV 54, Malkangiri, Odisha
Currently, we have Ragi and Khejona seeds available as local seeds.
— NAGRIK VIKASH SANGATHAN · Kalahandi, Odisha
We save and sow our traditional seeds. Such as chickpea, sorghum, Bhadi, pearl millet, etc.
— Vijay kanesh · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
Yes, we grow other crops and also preserve seeds like black gram, pigeon pea, and green gram.
— Jagannath Baraik · Ranchi, Jharkhand
Our traditional items are finger millet, foxtail millet, proso millet, black gram, paddy, all these are ours. Then there's black gram, pigeon pea, and all these things.
— gobardhan pangi · Upperpur, Malkangiri, Odisha
We have seeds like flat beans, runner beans, chickpea, pumpkin, etc.
— jitendra khila · kudumulugumma, Malkangiri, Odisha
For our family, the most valuable seeds are pulse seeds, paddy seeds, etc.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
After we harvest the paddy, we cultivate chickpeas, moong, urad, and gudasua here. We also eat it, and we sell it to sustain our family.
— Parikshit Majhi
These are wheat, chickpea, toria, and local Rajasthani seeds.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We keep green gram, black gram, and horse gram seeds, and cultivate them in the second crop.
— Puspanjali Nag
Moong and Urad seeds are valuable to us.
— Chitta Ranjan Sahu · Malakanagiri, Malkangiri, Odisha
Soya, Kangu, Jarna, and other varieties.
— Abhimaneu Sabar
I am a farmer. Immediately after cultivating rice, for a second crop, we plant moong, urad, chickpeas, and horse gram without much additional effort. And that crop turns out well, we consume some and sell the rest.
— Parikshit Majhi
Here, we cultivate paddy, sawa, medon, and mijhri. We store sawa, medon, and mijhri at home for sowing in the next year. Additionally, among pulses, we have kurthi and baturi, which we also store and sow the following year.
— Ram Kumari · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We have inherited the seeds of Bhaadi, Kodra, Bati, Jowar.
— Kachala Choudhary
We have traditional varieties: our native rice, ragi, tuana, jhudunga, palat biri, and our kangu tuana.
— gobardhan pangi · Upperpur, Malkangiri, Odisha
We have cultivated moong and urad this rainy season. We will keep the seeds and cultivate again next rainy season.
— Gitanjali Bhoi
Wheat, chickpea, toria and local indigenous seeds.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Yes, we save our local seeds. The most precious seeds for the family are wheat, chickpeas, peas, paddy, etc. Seeds are precious.
— Vimala
Precious seeds: Pearl millet, Black gram, Sorghum, Bhaadi Kodo millet, Barnyard millet, Bati.
— Kachala Choudhary
Own threshed paddy, maize, sorghum, finger millet, niger seed - these are the main ones.
— Ram Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
Our precious seed jowar, urad
— Kachala Choudhary
We preserve old seeds for sowing work, which explicitly includes Moong, Kili, and Mustard.
— Vijay Kumar bhardwaj · Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh
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
Pulses, millet, grains, and green leafy vegetables
— Maya kumari Damor
This is our rice, ragi, black gram, and horse gram for our family.
— Gourang Adhikari · Udulibeda, Malkangiri, Odisha
Yes, we are cultivating a second crop. We are growing lentils, moong, kalath, and their seeds are also in their traditional way.
— Trinath badanayak · Malakanagiri, Malkangiri, Odisha
The rice crop we cultivate, the valuable horse gram of our family; our ancestors have provided us with green gram, black gram, horse gram, and finger millet.
— Basanti · Nayagarh, Odisha
We are cultivating moong and urad beans. We have kept seeds and will cultivate again next year.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
We have kept the people, and we have kept millet, we have kept little millet, and we have kept barnyard millet, we have kept horse gram, and Kista, and also the people.
— Sanjusabar · Khambariguda, Rayagada, Odisha
We cultivated moong and urad dal this year and saved the seeds to cultivate again next year.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
We cultivate mustard, black gram, and horse gram.
— Puspanjali Nag
