SEED SAVING
I grew up as a farmer so I see sth happened in my farmer's life
The 1st thing that I see is when I was kid, my family or people in my village used to grow more than 5 varieties of rice every year.
So I asked my mother why we need to grow 5 varieties of rice and at the end we just mix everything together, to eat.
My mom said we have to save variety of rice because different kind of rice they have different quality, different collective. Some kind of rice, they survive in dry season and when there is no rain for many months they can survive.
Some kind of rice they survive in flooding, when they have a big flood. They can extend itself for 1metre for 1-2 nights. Some can survive the disease, when there is an epidemic. So when they grow more than 5 varieties of rice, whatever happened and they still have food, have rice to eat. That means security of life.
But now people grow only 1-2 varieties for sell so whatever happened, they loss. That means life has no security
When I was kid, nobody sell seeds. Seeds is sth you can give to people, you can share with people, you can trade it for sth else. But when I was about 12-13 years old. There was a company came and then they started to give hybrid seed, hybrid watermelon seed to peep in my village cause peep in my village use to grow watermelons and they are famous about that.
When the company came, they gave hybrid seed along with a chemical fertilizer so when people started to grow hybrid seed, they loved it! Cause they grow very fast and has lots of fruits. Then all the fruits look same size and taste good.
Next year villagers want to grow those seeds again but they need to buy them. After 3 years they've grown the hybrid seed, the local watermelon disappeared. After that everybody needed to buy seed cause they have no choice, they had no local seed left in that area or any places around. And the price of seed rising up very fast.
And the beginning is only maybe less than 100 baht per kilogram. But after 4-5 years the price went up to 1000 baht per kg. and now the price goes up to 12000 baht per kg. so it's not happen with only watermelon, it happened to all kind of seeds that we grow for eating. So I started to feel that this is not normal. Why we need to buy seed like this? Why the seed have to be expensive like that?
So the price of watermelon seed in the village now is about 10000 baht per kg or$300 and the farmer's average year income is about $900.
So if farmer who want to grow watermelons for 9acres. They have to inverts at least 100000 baht. So they need to think about where they can find money. That's the beginning of dept in farmer's life.
Cause now 60% of money that farmers invest will go to company. If one family want to grow 9acres watermelon, they will be in dept for sure. Cause they only got $900 per year. So that's the big problem you can see everywhere.
It's clear that the seed business and the chemicals involved with dept of villagers. Now the whole village is now 100% in dept and most of them don't know how to pay off their dept.
Our ancestor selected the best for us. What kind of plant that they plant well, last long , give a lot of fruit, and taste good. And then it turns to life heritage for us. Now we got lots of food to eat. That's the benefit that out ancestor gave to us.
But now we don't save seed. We let the company save seed for us. But the company didn't select the ones like our ancestor did. They selected the worst ones and they develop our seed to make it weak that they need to rely on the chemicals.
So, the taste is bad. We don't have good quality of food anymore. So now we son't have heritage to give to our next generation anymore. So this food can be the last meal of our ancestor, our era. Cause we ruined everything, we ruined our life, we ruined our next generation. We have nothing. That's why I feel like we need to started saving seed. Because seed is life. Seed is next generation. Seed is freedom. Seed is happiness. If you have no seed, you have nothing. You are just a good slave,slave for the company and that's the end.
What we can do now is we come back to farm. We started the place call pun pun, we started it 7 years ago. We started to grow our own food here, we save seed. We collect seeds from all over the places and grow them here so we can enjoy our lives. We safe seed and networking with another group and share them to each other's. We want the seed alive. It works well and more people interested. We always give it for free.
Food is life- we can not sell life. We try to give life to people
Now we feel like we started a heaven. We are now working in heaven. We hope that one day we'll have enough seed, enough food for our next generation. And we feel like it's not to far away from us. It's sth we can do.
SEED SAVINGI grew up as a farmer so I see sth happened in my farmer's lifeThe 1st thing that I see is when I was kid, my family or people in my village used to grow more than 5 varieties of rice every year.So I asked my mother why we need to grow 5 varieties of rice and at the end we just mix everything together, to eat. My mom said we have to save variety of rice because different kind of rice they have different quality, different collective. Some kind of rice, they survive in dry season and when there is no rain for many months they can survive.Some kind of rice they survive in flooding, when they have a big flood. They can extend itself for 1metre for 1-2 nights. Some can survive the disease, when there is an epidemic. So when they grow more than 5 varieties of rice, whatever happened and they still have food, have rice to eat. That means security of life.But now people grow only 1-2 varieties for sell so whatever happened, they loss. That means life has no security When I was kid, nobody sell seeds. Seeds is sth you can give to people, you can share with people, you can trade it for sth else. But when I was about 12-13 years old. There was a company came and then they started to give hybrid seed, hybrid watermelon seed to peep in my village cause peep in my village use to grow watermelons and they are famous about that.When the company came, they gave hybrid seed along with a chemical fertilizer so when people started to grow hybrid seed, they loved it! Cause they grow very fast and has lots of fruits. Then all the fruits look same size and taste good.
Next year villagers want to grow those seeds again but they need to buy them. After 3 years they've grown the hybrid seed, the local watermelon disappeared. After that everybody needed to buy seed cause they have no choice, they had no local seed left in that area or any places around. And the price of seed rising up very fast.
And the beginning is only maybe less than 100 baht per kilogram. But after 4-5 years the price went up to 1000 baht per kg. and now the price goes up to 12000 baht per kg. so it's not happen with only watermelon, it happened to all kind of seeds that we grow for eating. So I started to feel that this is not normal. Why we need to buy seed like this? Why the seed have to be expensive like that?
So the price of watermelon seed in the village now is about 10000 baht per kg or$300 and the farmer's average year income is about $900.
So if farmer who want to grow watermelons for 9acres. They have to inverts at least 100000 baht. So they need to think about where they can find money. That's the beginning of dept in farmer's life.
Cause now 60% of money that farmers invest will go to company. If one family want to grow 9acres watermelon, they will be in dept for sure. Cause they only got $900 per year. So that's the big problem you can see everywhere.
It's clear that the seed business and the chemicals involved with dept of villagers. Now the whole village is now 100% in dept and most of them don't know how to pay off their dept.
Our ancestor selected the best for us. What kind of plant that they plant well, last long , give a lot of fruit, and taste good. And then it turns to life heritage for us. Now we got lots of food to eat. That's the benefit that out ancestor gave to us.
But now we don't save seed. We let the company save seed for us. But the company didn't select the ones like our ancestor did. They selected the worst ones and they develop our seed to make it weak that they need to rely on the chemicals.
So, the taste is bad. We don't have good quality of food anymore. So now we son't have heritage to give to our next generation anymore. So this food can be the last meal of our ancestor, our era. Cause we ruined everything, we ruined our life, we ruined our next generation. We have nothing. That's why I feel like we need to started saving seed. Because seed is life. Seed is next generation. Seed is freedom. Seed is happiness. If you have no seed, you have nothing. You are just a good slave,slave for the company and that's the end.
What we can do now is we come back to farm. We started the place call pun pun, we started it 7 years ago. We started to grow our own food here, we save seed. We collect seeds from all over the places and grow them here so we can enjoy our lives. We safe seed and networking with another group and share them to each other's. We want the seed alive. It works well and more people interested. We always give it for free.
Food is life- we can not sell life. We try to give life to people
Now we feel like we started a heaven. We are now working in heaven. We hope that one day we'll have enough seed, enough food for our next generation. And we feel like it's not to far away from us. It's sth we can do.
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