Landraces
- Recently, the Odisha government notified a comprehensive Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to identify, conserve, and mainstream traditional seed varieties (Landraces).
- The new SOP, formulated under the state’s ‘Shree Anna Abhiyan’ (SAA), focuses on seed governance by giving priority to farmers’ knowledge and community seed systems.
- It expands the scope of earlier efforts focused on millet landraces to include a broad range of traditional crops such as pulses, tubers and cereals.
- Landraces are local or traditional genetically diverse crop populations that have evolved over generations through a combination of natural adaptation and human selection, in line with traditional farming ....
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