Traditional knowledge
To maintain and conserve agro-biodiversity Household Survey and documentation of traditional knowledge.
household survey of farmers has been completed in all the five project states.Survey schedule was developed in consultation with the project partners and farmers in the inception workshop. The responses of West Bengal analyzed and documents of traditional knowledge have also been communicated.
At the project site the villagers are using traditional knowledge for sowing the crops. Farmers and state coordinators discussed, analysed and studied this traditional knowledge based sowing dates and developed a calendar. Traditional knowledge-based calendar depends on many local or national festival’s dates which change every year.
Household survey was accompanied with the collection of local seed varieties of pulses and oil seeds in all the states.
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