Sunday, April 27, 2014

“Jeevika” for Saving Biodiversity......@JEEVIKA Jhabua


Jhabua is a bio-diversifical rich area. It has many types of known and unknown crop cum herbal varieties, which can be identified by very few persons of community. Jeevika took an initiative to bring this concern in community’s mind. We took meetings at each village and collected some very rare varieties of crops, especially millets. We, with few farmers, went to KVK-Jhabua and met Mr. Tomar about it. We also given them our sample seeds with details and tried to complete patent formalities. Following seed samples have been submitted at KVK-Jhabua: 1. Hamli,

2. Kodra,

3. Pan Veliya,

4. Maize Local Variety,

5. Paddy Local Variety,

6. Bhaadli,

7. Powadiya,

8. Rajan.

We are planning to patent these varieties on farmers name and promote our farmer clubs as producer group, so that farmers’ income level can be raised through market linkage of local varieties.

By JEEVIKA Jhabua team

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