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    The cloudTraditional Farming PracticesSeed & Crop CultivationTraditional Seed SavingOrganic Dryland FarmingSustainable Seed ConservationZero-Irrigation Seed Conservation
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    A dimension within Sustainable Seed Conservation

    Zero-Irrigation Seed Conservation

    This theme highlights sustainable and traditional farming practices, emphasizing seed conservation and crop cultivation with zero irrigation.

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    Across your region, there is a strong and widespread adoption of zero-irrigation farming and traditional agricultural methods, which are proving highly effective for many farmers. Citizens frequently highlight their success in cultivating diverse crops, including various millets, pulses, and oilseeds, even without modern irrigation facilities. A central and celebrated practice is the consistent conservation of indigenous and traditional seeds 🌾, often passed down through generations. This approach not only ensures crop resilience and food security but also contributes to biodiversity and improved profitability for farmers. Communities are actively engaged in sustainable practices, showcasing a proactive and positive response to environmental conditions. 💡💧

    Dominant Themes

    Zero-irrigation farming
    Traditional farming methods
    Indigenous seed conservation
    Cultivation of diverse dryland crops
    Sustainable agricultural practices

    Actionable Recommendations

    • 🌱 ☀ 📈Initiate programs to support and scale up zero-irrigation farming techniques through training, resource sharing, and recognition of successful practitioners.
    • 🌿 🤝 🏡Establish community-based seed banks and facilitate networks for the exchange and preservation of traditional and indigenous crop varieties.
    • 📚 👨 🌾Promote knowledge sharing and inter-generational learning platforms for traditional farming methods, ensuring these valuable practices continue to thrive.
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    🧭 Action recipe· Farming for Resilience

    Nurture Traditional Farming and Indigenous Seeds

    Our tribe thrives by practicing traditional, zero-irrigation farming and conserving indigenous seeds, deeply connected to our nature-worshipping culture.

    🧭 Action recipe· Farming for Resilience

    Save the Seeds That Know the Rain

    By preserving our traditional, rain-fed seeds and planting them with care, we ensure food for our families and fodder for our animals.

    🧭 Action recipe· Farming for Resilience

    Save Your Seeds for the Next Season's Harvest

    By carefully collecting and preserving seeds from our first harvest, we ensure a second, nutritious crop and maintain our traditional farming methods for generations.

    🧭 Action recipe· Farming for Resilience

    Preserve Your Seeds, Cultivate Diversity

    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.

    Where these voices come from

    ODISHA, INDIA47 voices MADHYA PRADESH, INDIA21 voices CHHATTISGARH, INDIA17 voices UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA14 voices JHARKHAND, INDIA8 voices RAJASTHAN, INDIA4 voices

    Voices here

    🌱 🌧️ 🤲

    Yes, we practice zero-irrigation farming and also conserve seeds every year such as Kodo, Kutki, Madia, Ragi, Kulthi, Urad, Hirwa.

    — Birohin · Mohla, Mohla-Manpur-Ambagarh Chowki, Chhattisgarh

    🌱 ☀️ 🤲

    Yes, we practice zero-irrigation farming and conserve seeds like millet, madia, ragi, kulthi, kodo, kutki.

    — Sukhdas Mandavi · Mohla-Manpur-Ambagarh Chowki, Chhattisgarh

    🌱 ☀️ 🤲

    Yes, we practice zero-irrigation farming and also conserve seeds annually, such as Kodo, Kutki, Madia, Jowar, and Bajra.

    — Sukhdas Mandavi · Mohla, Mohla-Manpur-Ambagarh Chowki, Chhattisgarh

    🌱 ☀️ 🤲

    Yes, we do zero irrigation farming and also do seed conservation.

    — Kekti Tekam · Dindori, Madhya Pradesh

    🌱 ☀️ 🤲

    Yes, we practice zero-irrigation farming and also conserve seeds. For example, horse gram, Kodo millet, little millet, finger millet, and black gram are zero-irrigation crops.

    — Sukhdas Mandavi · Mohla, Mohla-Manpur-Ambagarh Chowki, Chhattisgarh

    🌱 ☀️ 🤲

    Yes, we practice zero-irrigation farming every year and also conserve seeds for ourselves or for the village.

    — Sukhdas Mandavi · Mohla-Manpur-Ambagarh Chowki, Chhattisgarh

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    Yes, we practice traditional farming and also conserve indigenous seeds.

    — Sukhdas Mandavi · Mohla, Mohla-Manpur-Ambagarh Chowki, Chhattisgarh

    🌱 🏜️ 🌾

    Yes, we grow zero-irrigation crops and also conserve seeds. Every year, we plant zero-irrigation crops.

    — Sukhdas Mandavi · Mohla, Mohla-Manpur-Ambagarh Chowki, Chhattisgarh

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    Yes, we grow zero-tillage crops like mustard, gram, barley, and also follow traditional farming methods and seed conservation.

    — Laxmanlal

    ☀️ 🌱 🤲

    Yes, we do second crop farming with zero irrigation, and we also practice traditional farming methods and seed conservation.

    — AbhiLL Ipsa

    🌱 ☀️ 🌰

    Yes, we do a second crop with zero irrigation and follow traditional farming as well as seed preservation.

    — Upendra Kumar Mahananda

    🌾 🌧️ 🤲

    Yes, we grow a second crop with zero irrigation and follow traditional farming methods and seed conservation.

    — Laxmanlal

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    Yes, we grow Sun Na Shishai crops using traditional farming methods, so we practice seed conservation.

    — Laxmanlal

    🌾 🤲 🌱

    Yes, we cultivate dryland crops such as madiya, kodo, and kutki in our region, and we also conserve seeds for every year.

    — Sukhdas Mandavi · Mohla-Manpur-Ambagarh Chowki, Chhattisgarh

    🌱 🤲 ☀️

    Yes, we grow zero-irrigation crops and follow simple traditional farming methods and 20 conservation.

    — Laxmanlal

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    Yes, we conserve traditional seeds using traditional methods and also farm using traditional methods, where, by God's grace, the crop grows even without irrigation.

    — Rupesh Maravi · Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh

    🌾 🤲 🌱

    Yes, we cultivate barnyard millet and finger millet and also conserve seeds.

    — Manjusha Marko · Dudhi, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

    ☀️ 🌱 🤲

    Yes, dry farming is done here, and traditional farming methods and seed conservation are also followed.

    — Kekti Tekam · Dindori, Madhya Pradesh

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    Yes, we cultivate and preserve traditional seeds.

    — Selina Pangi

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    In our region, zero irrigation crops are sown, mainly pulses and oilseeds, and we practice traditional farming and conserve pulse seeds.

    — Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand

    🌱 🤲 📜

    We cultivate zero-irrigation crops, including pulses and oilseeds, and also conserve them, as they are part of our heritage.

    — Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand

    🌱 ☀️ 🤲

    Yes, we also grow other crops without irrigation using traditional methods, which we call 'unhari' crops. We also store their seeds using traditional methods.

    — Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

    👵 🌱 ☀️

    Yes, we grow a second crop without irrigation and also maintain old traditional seeds according to customary methods.

    — Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

    🌍 🌱 👴

    Yes, on zero-irrigation land, we grow a second crop, and the maintenance of traditional seeds and farming methods are still done using our old methods.

    — Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    Yes, we preserve traditional seeds and sow them. This helps during the harvest season for the Rabi crop. It is also beneficial even without irrigation.

    — Santosh Barik · Narala, Kalahandi, Odisha

    🌱 🌧️ 🌾

    We do traditional farming. We save rain-fed seeds and cultivate crops like sorghum and chickpea.

    — Vijay kanesh · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

    🌱 👴 🌾

    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

    🌱 🤲 🏜️

    Yes, we conserve zero-irrigation crops such as wood, grass pea, pea, lentil, and mustard.

    — Vijay Kumar bhardwaj · Kasdol, Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    Yes, we grow other crops and also preserve seeds like black gram, pigeon pea, and green gram.

    — Jagannath Baraik · Ranchi, Jharkhand

    🌱 🤲 🌾

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

    — Vijay kanesh · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

    🌱 💧 🤲

    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

    🌱 🤲 🌳

    Yes, we preserve natural seeds here.

    — Vijay kanesh

    🌾 ☀️ 🤲

    Yes, due to the lack of water facilities in our fields, we grow Rabi crops using traditional methods without irrigation and also maintain traditional seeds using traditional methods.

    — Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    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

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    We will practice traditional farming and save seeds for next year.

    — Sathimambalaka · Tado, Rayagada, Odisha

    🌱 ☀️ 💰

    Yes, we used to cultivate and are still cultivating moong, urad, chana, masoor, and other seeds with zero irrigation. And more profit.

    — Naukeshi Sahu

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    We also preserve seeds in a traditional way.

    — Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    Do you conserve seeds and traditionally grow a second crop without irrigation? Yes, yes.

    — Niranjan Lauria · Boudh, Odisha

    🌱 🌧️ 🌾

    Yes, I grow a second crop using zero irrigation and also save seeds with traditional farming methods.

    — Vimala

    🌾 ☀️ 🤲

    Another farming is barley cultivation done without water, and its seeds are also kept. This is our traditional farming, which is preserved every year for the purpose of sowing seeds.

    — Ram Kumari

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