By Katherine Zavala | Program Coordinator, IDEX
In the past six months, four seed banks have been established by GRAVIS in four project villages. Local seeds of different crops were collected from the villages during harvesting season and preserved in pots with ash and dried neem leaves (a tree native to the area which thrives in drought conditions). The mouths of the pots are sealed with mud. This is how seeds are traditionally preserved in the villages.
One Village Development Communities (VDC) and three Self help Groups (SHGs) are managing these seed banks. Each seed bank contains six local varieties of seeds and will benefit a total of 105 families.
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