The Future
of India Lies In
Its Villages

A communal seed bank is a place where diversity of different Indigenous seeds of a particular geographical location are collected, stored and distributed to farmers.

The storage of these are done in traditional ways using ecological friendly sources available locally.

We at OOO Farms our committed towards building these seed banks in the regions of our work

HOW THESE SEED BANK FUNCTION?

In a particular village or region farmers who are interested in growing indigenous seeds are given different seeds as per their choice depending on the positioning of their land.

Farmers who are interested in growing indigenous varieties are also given technical help on cultivation of these crops, raising seeds and pest management with natural resources.

A measured quantity of seeds are given to the farmer and at the end of the season farmers return the seed with additional amount that they borrowed from the seed bank.

The additional seeds collected and then distributed to other farmers who show interest in growing indigenous crops in that region and the chain of multiplying farmers and seeds continues…

Today in industrial agriculture practices farmers are completely dependent on external source for seeds and other inputs to support them which was not the case in traditional agricultural practices.

A traditional farmer grows food with indigenous seeds the seed which have generations. After the harvest farmer chooses his best seeds and store them for next season this practice has a history of 1000’s of years and the chain continues

WHEREAS a modern farmer buys seeds from the market year after year, these seeds do not have generation and are made by different companies around the world, artificial inputs are used to support growth which are harmful for consumption.

It’s said “WE ARE WHAT WE EAT” SO WE CHOOSE TO EAT FOOD WITH HEALTHIER FUTURE GENERATION FOR A BETTER TOMORROW, HOW ABOUT YOU?

Industries are trying to have seed monopoly by patents because of which farmer loses his right on the seed and is forced to select from seeds offered by these industries

With time farmers lost their seeds because of industrial intervention today’s farmer has been given a small palette of industrial seeds to choose from to grow in their field, though that was not always the case, farmers had a variety of seeds (rice itself had (1,40,000 varieties) to choose from depending on climatic and geographical conditions farmers made their own decision to grow the kind of crop they wanted.

It’s a right a farmer to choose to grow from the offerings by the nature which is now been lost to select from the offerings made by the industries

We at OOO Farms are working towards finding these indigenous seeds and offer them back to the farmers which will help farmers to break their dependency on these industries.