Seed App
The CSB Nepal has developed and hosted an Android App ‘Hamro Biu‘ literally ‘Our Seed‘ in the local language. The App can be downloaded from the ‘Google Play Store’. The Seed App has a list of all member community seedbanks affiliated to CSB Nepal; a list of crops and local crop diversity conserved by member...
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Registration of Local Varities
With the technical support of LI-BIRD and the financial support of the Development Fund, Norway, the CSB Nepal facilitated the registration of five local varieties at the National Seed Board (NSB) following Schedule ‘D’ of the Seed Regulation 2013, from the following five-member community seed banks Variety : Nepale Bhatamas Crop: Soybean Registered by: Tamaphok...
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Nepal Bangladesh Exchange
The exchange between the members of CSB Nepal and UBINIG, Bangladesh was organized to enrich the knowledge base of the members on conservation and use of local crop diversity. The CSB Nepal participants learned from the visit to Bangladesh for managing local seed at two levels i.e. at the Community Seed Hut (CSH) and Community...
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Seed Exchange Festivals
The CSB Nepal organized two seed exchange festivals to promote the exchange of local crop diversity and knowledge among community seed banks. The first seed exchange festival was organized on 15 May 2019 at Agyauli Community Seed Bank, Nawalparasi targeting participation and exchange of seeds and planting materials among terai-based community seed banks. At the...
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Three Star Community Seed Banks
There are several ways of rating community seed banks that show their status. A small grant received from Seed Soil and Culture via Bioversity International developed and tested a new method for rating of community seed banks in Nepal on a 0 to 5-star scale. This rating scale is useful to evaluate the progress made...
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Collaboration for Ex-situ Conservation
National Genebanks keep a copy of their accessions in the international genebanks and at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault as safety duplication. However, community seed banks do not have such arrangements. Therefore, CSB Nepal facilitated the process of sending local crop diversity conserved by member community seed banks to the National Genebank of Nepal for...
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