Seed collection in India | Ørestad Urban Gardens
When the members of the Urban gardens themselves are reaping the seeds they help to increase food security on the ground. Once it was all man knowledge how to assemble and store seeds - it can be again. One of the association's former members Eva Munk-Madsen has been in India and visited an organic movement of small farmers who cherish t shirt folder their traditional t shirt folder seeds.
Biodiversity in agriculture and horticulture is essential for food security. In the climate change era where we have to adapt to changing growing conditions, it is especially important to have a wealth of varieties to try out. In India, the so-called Green Revolution (introduction of chemical fertilizers, pesticides and monocultures) reduced, but not eradicated biodiversity in agriculture. There are pockets of rural culture where small-holder farmers practice of collecting and swapping traditional t shirt folder seed varieties and seed alive. To preserve and restore the traditional local species work organization Navdanya at village level to organize local seed banks. Over 100,000 small farmers are connected to the movement. t shirt folder Navdanya also operates a research farm with a seed bank and a learning center where they gendyrker approx. 500 rice varieties annually. Right now the focus is on collecting varieties t shirt folder adapted to drought, flood or high salinity in the soil because t shirt folder climate change puts harvest deserted in several areas of the large populous country where 70% of the population t shirt folder lives in the countryside and of the earth.
Visit the farm Bija Vidyapeeth in Northern India where it plowed with oxen threshed with his feet, dried, sorted and stored seeds of rice and 300 other crops. Bija Vidyapeeth accept international volunteers. You can stay on the farm and participate in farm work and / or the organization's projects. They pay between 55-75 kr per day for room and board depending on length of stay. See more at www.navdanya.org
"Do you think people where you come from will use my knowledge and do as I tell you?" Asks Urmila Devi at the end of our conversation to gather and store seeds. Female Farmers in Mandakini Valley in the foothills of the Himalayas in northern India, manages the legacy of peasant millennium-long development of locally adapted crops. They select their seeds even as the crop grows on the field - the highest millet plants, the most bulging pumpkin, the shapely roundest beans - the plant must radiate health t shirt folder and the seeds should t shirt folder be collected, dried and stored in the best manner. The knowledge t shirt folder is passed on from mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law t shirt folder to their own experience and build on. The best container is the plaited bamboo t shirt folder basket sealed from a mixture of red clay and cow dung, but glass and tin cans can also be used. Some seeds will easily moths and must be packed in cloth bags and insert into the millet container - for millet t shirt folder will not be attacked. Other seeds should be mixed with ashes to keep the insects away. All seeds should be dried carefully before saving. The seeds must also be sorted so that only the viable sown, otherwise there bare spots on the field. The women will exchange the seeds with each other. Has the harvest of a crop failure, step to genealogy or neighbors to get seeds and supplies back after the next harvest. Some are better managers than others and they give willingly away from their good seeds. t shirt folder "Are you seed expert?" I ask Urmila Devi, "I do not know," she replies, "but everybody comes to me and asks for the seed." Good luck with seed collection - and do like like Urmila: swap and give seed to those who are missing.
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When the members of the Urban gardens themselves are reaping the seeds they help to increase food security on the ground. Once it was all man knowledge how to assemble and store seeds - it can be again. One of the association's former members Eva Munk-Madsen has been in India and visited an organic movement of small farmers who cherish t shirt folder their traditional t shirt folder seeds.
Biodiversity in agriculture and horticulture is essential for food security. In the climate change era where we have to adapt to changing growing conditions, it is especially important to have a wealth of varieties to try out. In India, the so-called Green Revolution (introduction of chemical fertilizers, pesticides and monocultures) reduced, but not eradicated biodiversity in agriculture. There are pockets of rural culture where small-holder farmers practice of collecting and swapping traditional t shirt folder seed varieties and seed alive. To preserve and restore the traditional local species work organization Navdanya at village level to organize local seed banks. Over 100,000 small farmers are connected to the movement. t shirt folder Navdanya also operates a research farm with a seed bank and a learning center where they gendyrker approx. 500 rice varieties annually. Right now the focus is on collecting varieties t shirt folder adapted to drought, flood or high salinity in the soil because t shirt folder climate change puts harvest deserted in several areas of the large populous country where 70% of the population t shirt folder lives in the countryside and of the earth.
Visit the farm Bija Vidyapeeth in Northern India where it plowed with oxen threshed with his feet, dried, sorted and stored seeds of rice and 300 other crops. Bija Vidyapeeth accept international volunteers. You can stay on the farm and participate in farm work and / or the organization's projects. They pay between 55-75 kr per day for room and board depending on length of stay. See more at www.navdanya.org
"Do you think people where you come from will use my knowledge and do as I tell you?" Asks Urmila Devi at the end of our conversation to gather and store seeds. Female Farmers in Mandakini Valley in the foothills of the Himalayas in northern India, manages the legacy of peasant millennium-long development of locally adapted crops. They select their seeds even as the crop grows on the field - the highest millet plants, the most bulging pumpkin, the shapely roundest beans - the plant must radiate health t shirt folder and the seeds should t shirt folder be collected, dried and stored in the best manner. The knowledge t shirt folder is passed on from mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law t shirt folder to their own experience and build on. The best container is the plaited bamboo t shirt folder basket sealed from a mixture of red clay and cow dung, but glass and tin cans can also be used. Some seeds will easily moths and must be packed in cloth bags and insert into the millet container - for millet t shirt folder will not be attacked. Other seeds should be mixed with ashes to keep the insects away. All seeds should be dried carefully before saving. The seeds must also be sorted so that only the viable sown, otherwise there bare spots on the field. The women will exchange the seeds with each other. Has the harvest of a crop failure, step to genealogy or neighbors to get seeds and supplies back after the next harvest. Some are better managers than others and they give willingly away from their good seeds. t shirt folder "Are you seed expert?" I ask Urmila Devi, "I do not know," she replies, "but everybody comes to me and asks for the seed." Good luck with seed collection - and do like like Urmila: swap and give seed to those who are missing.
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