A dimension within Dryland Farming & Seed Security
Focusing on gardening, local markets, and the practice of saving for self-reliance.
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After the main harvest, we harness the land's natural moisture to cultivate a vital second crop, ensuring food and oil for our families.
By relying on traditional farming methods and saving our own seeds, we ensure food security and healthy crops without external inputs.
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.
By integrating diverse farming practices with deep knowledge of local forest foods, we ensure our community's sustenance and future well-being.
I myself will cultivate mustard and will also save for the coming year.
— Anupama Mahanand · Sundargarh, Odisha
I myself will cultivate mustard and save for the coming year.
— Anupama Mahanand · Sundargarh, Odisha
I will cultivate mustard myself and save it for next year as well.
— Anupama Mahanand · Sundargarh, Odisha
I will cultivate moong and sell it, and I will also cultivate mustard and sell it, and I will collect the money and save it.
— Anupama Mahanand
I will cultivate some vegetables, sell them in the market, collect the money, and also save some for the next month.
— Anupama Mahanand · Sundargarh, Odisha
I will cultivate myself, save for the coming year, and cultivate again.
— Anupama Mahanand · Sundargarh, Odisha
I will cultivate mustard and save it for next year, and I will cultivate again in the traditional way.
— Anupama Mahanand
I will cultivate vegetables and store them.
— Anupama Mahanand
I will cultivate, and keep the produce from this year's cultivation for next year, and cultivate again. All the best.
— Anupama Mahanand
I will cultivate, save for the upcoming rainy season, and then cultivate again.
— Anupama Mahanand · Sundargarh, Odisha
I will cultivate paddy, keep this year's harvest, and save it for the coming year. I will cultivate again and also save that for the subsequent year.
— Anupama Mahanand
I will cultivate and store black gram this year, and I will also save some for next year. I will cultivate again.
— Anupama Mahanand
I will cultivate chickpeas, save them, and also keep some for next year's cultivation.
— Anupama Mahanand
I will cultivate green gram, save some for next year as well, and then cultivate again.
— Anupama Mahanand · Sundargarh, Odisha
I will do all the farming, and I will save for the next year and farm again.
— Anupama Mahanand
I will cultivate black gram, save some for the coming year, and then cultivate it again.
— Anupama Mahanand
By cultivating green gram, I will keep this year's green gram for next year and cultivate again.
— Anupama Mahanand · Sundargarh, Odisha
This year I will cultivate moong and save it for next year, and then I will cultivate traditionally again.
— Anupama Mahanand · Sundargarh, Odisha
I will cultivate black gram and also save some for next year, and then I will cultivate again.
— Anupama Mahanand · Subdega, Sundargarh, Odisha
I will cultivate and store some for next year, and then cultivate it again using traditional methods.
— Anupama Mahanand
I will cultivate and sell the produce, and collect money.
— Anupama Mahanand
I will complete the farming, and next year I will receive the harvest. By storing it and farming again, they will save.
— Anupama Mahanand · Sundargarh, Odisha
I will cultivate and sell vegetables. I will collect and save this money and educate my children.
— Anupama Mahanand
By cultivating pulses, I will save for the next year and then cultivate again in the traditional way.
— Anupama Mahanand
I will cultivate moong dal varieties, and by cultivating them again, I will preserve and sell them.
— Anupama Mahanand
I will cultivate chickpeas myself and store them for next year, and I will cultivate again next year, in a traditional way.
— Anupama Mahanand · Sundargarh, Odisha
I will bring good variety vegetable seeds to my farm, grow vegetables, and sell them in the nearby market to run my household.
— Vijay kanesh · Mathwad, Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
We will cultivate mustard, moong, and other crops, save the seeds, and cultivate them again next year.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
I will cultivate and grow pulse seeds that can be used for consumption, and some can be saved for next year's crop.
— Pushpalata Surtange · Tilda Neora, Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh
I will do berry farming, save for the next year, and I will farm again.
— Anupama Mahanand
We will cultivate mustard, green gram, and other crops, store their seeds, and cultivate them again next year.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
By cultivating pulses, I will use them for eating and save a little for next year's crop.
— Pushpalata Surtange · Tilda Neora, Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh
I cultivate green gram and mustard as a second crop, and I collect these seeds to sow them again next year.
— Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha
I cultivate green gram and mustard as a second crop, and I collect these seeds to sow them again next year.
— Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha
I cultivate green gram and mustard as a second crop, and I collect these seeds to sow them again next year.
— Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha
Well, I cultivated black gram and chickpeas this year. I will save the seeds and cultivate them next year as well.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
I have cultivated moong and black gram and kept the seeds. I will cultivate again in the rainy season.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
I will do farming, saving this year's earnings to also use for next year, and will farm again in a continuous cycle.
— Anupama Mahanand · Sundargarh, Odisha
I will buy vegetable seeds, cultivate them in the garden, and sell them in the market.
— Subhadra Suna · Balāngīr, Balangir, Odisha
I will buy vegetable seeds, cultivate them in the garden, and sell them in the market.
— Subhadra Suna · Balāngīr, Balangir, Odisha
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