Seed Saving Practices

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

— Sunita Kumari

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

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

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

— Sunita Kumari

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

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

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

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

To cultivate chickpeas and preserve seeds.

— Sunita Kumari · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

To cultivate chickpeas and conserve seeds

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

We save the seeds for planting next time.

— Kachala Choudhary

We save chickpeas

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

They cultivate lentils and save its seeds for the next crop.

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

I will cultivate chickpeas, save them, and also keep some for next year's cultivation.

— Anupama Mahanand

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

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

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha

By cultivating chickpeas, they keep its seeds.

— Sunita Kumari

They want to store the seeds of corn and wheat crops so that cultivation can continue in the future.

— bachcha lal · Shahganj, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

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

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

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

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

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

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

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

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

— Vinita Singh Yadav · Mukasim, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

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

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

Cultivating chickpeas and also conserving them

— Sunita Kumari

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

— Vijay kanesh · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

We grow pulse crops, keep them for our daily consumption, and save a small amount of the remaining seeds for the next crop.

— Pushpalata Surtange · Bemetara, Chhattisgarh

Cultivating chickpeas and preserving them.

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

They keep chickpea and lentil seeds.

— Vinita Singh Yadav · Dharura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

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

— Gitanjali Bhoi

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

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

We will cultivate pulses, which we will include in our nutritional diet, and save a small amount for storage for the next crop.

— Pushpalata Surtange · Tilda Neora, Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh

Just as we safely kept our seeds in the past, in the coming days, we will also beautifully manage chickpeas, moong, and pigeon pea.

— RUDRA PRASAD BAG · Mahulpāra, Nuapada, Odisha

Cultivate pulse varieties and save them for the next year, and then cultivate again using traditional methods.

— Anupama Mahanand · Sundargarh, Odisha

Seeds are saved by cultivating lentils.

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

We conserve paddy seeds.

— Vinita Singh Yadav · Dharura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

We conserve paddy seeds

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

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

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

They store chickpea seeds.

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh