Seed fair Mela

Seed fair Mela cum local seed exchange program was held on the 17^th April 2017 at CWG office. Some villages could not attend due to sudden bandh imposed on the day we organised the program. During the Mela participants got the chance to see different varieties of local seeds/crops and they do have exchanged of seeds. They also realised that some seeds like millet was still preserved by few farmers. Many have appreciated the initiatives for conducting this Seed Mela as it was really motivating to farmers who still practiced self-seed collection. The participants also agreed to have one vegetable mela probably in the month of August 2017. CWG would be taking the initiative and coordination of farmers to finalise the date and venue for the same. The seed fair mela cum seed exchange program will be conducted again in the month of August 2017 as some project villages failed to participate during the seed mela. Two project villages- Phalbung and Chahmol participated the program. Total participants were 11, 6 from two project villages and 5 from organisation CWG.

The seeds collected during the seed mela fair:

1. Maize- 4 varieties ( red sticky, white sticky, black sticky,white maize)
2. Cucumber- 2 varieties
3. Millet
4. Mustard seed- 2 varieties (Big and small)
5. Pimpkin- 2 varieties
6. Sesame
7. Pea cormn
8. Torbod- 3 varieties
9. Hawaimubi
10. Chakhawai
11. Bitter gourd
12. Changnam
13. Ginger
14. Turmeric
15. Millet
16. Sibot
17. Lomba
18. Yengdam
19. Khameng akhaba
20. Papaya
21. Yendem
22. King chilly
23. Chilly
24. Saogri
25. Red rice
26. Sticky rice
27. Changngat
28. Brinjal
29. Maipet
30. Beans climber
31. Beans non climber
32. Ladyfingers
33. Bekungbur
34. Water gourd
35. Mayangpa
36. Potato yam
37. Taro