Heirloom seeds
/ˈɛːluːm siːd/
noun
A heirloom seed is the seed of a plant that has been carefully cultivated and passed down through many generations of growers.
HEIRLOOM SEEDS are usually planted in small, isolated communities, and generally offer something of value to the grower, whether that is a unique flavour, a unique capability or tendency, or special adaptation to local growing conditions.
Video by Access Agriculture
These short visual abstracts inform us of how heirloom rice seeds are selected, divided and treated. HEIRLOOM SEEDS retain more than diversity for our rice, it also contains indigenous knowledge and practices. These video abstracts illustrate indigenous rice agricultral practices inherited from the preservation of HEIRLOOM RICE SEEDS.
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