ARSWS Community Seed Bank
Amarkanan Rural Socio-envrionmental Welfare Society Community Seed Bank (ARSWS CSB) has been established by the ARSW Society on the year 2018. The main aim of this Community Seed Bank is to protect, conserved and restore the Agrobiodiveristy of southern part of the West Bengal as well as to provide seeds of traditional crop varieties to the small holder marginal farmers for cultivation. This CSB helps to build an alternative seed system on the rural areas. The community seed bank is situated in place where agriculture is the main livelihood and farmers are mostly marginal. Training, workshop and demonstration of different types of traditional crop varieties has been conducting in the community seed bank in regular interval involving the local farmers. To know about the importance of conservation of the traditional crop varieties various awareness programme has been also conducted for the creation awareness among the students, farmers. Seeds of farmer’s varieties of different crops are distributed to the marginal farmers free of cost to cultivate in their own cultivated land. Farmers may take minimum amount of seeds as per there requirement from the seed bank for cultivation in their own land and return back double amount of seed to the seed bank to sustain the seeds.
