Across the nine Using Diversity project areas in Central and Eastern India – community fellows and partner organizations have carried out a variety of activities in order to prepare for the distribution of seeds. These will be used for mixed cropping, kitchen gardens and setting up of nurseries that will nurture a variety of wild plants and trees.
Some of the activities that were carried out in the last month to speed up the distribution of seeds to farmers include – meetings with farmers who will be receiving seeds; training programs with community seed bank committees; establishing new community seed banks while strengthening existing community seed banks and procuring new seeds.
We envisage that these initiatives will make available a variety of traditional seeds for mixed cropping whose availability has been reducing in different areas. This could also help promote the cultivation of a variety of crops and local vegetables in homestead plots and kitchen gardens to meet subsistence and nutritional needs.
We envisage that these initiatives will make available a variety of traditional seeds for mixed cropping whose availability has been reducing in different areas. This could also help promote the cultivation of a variety of crops and local vegetables in homestead plots and kitchen gardens to meet subsistence and nutritional needs.
By Rohan Mukherjee
