Seeds Online in India 5 july 17

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Seeds Online in India
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Description

• One hundred fifty years ago the United States did
  not have a commercial seed industry today we
  have the worlds largest. Some view this as real
  progress, a form of genetic Manifest Destiny. A
  nation once a debtor in plant genetics now
  supplies the world. In 1854, seeds were sourced
  in the U.S. by way of a small number of
  horticultural seed catalogs, farmer (or gardener)
  exchange, on-farm seed saving, and through the
  beneficence of the United States government.
  Specifically, beginning in the 1850s, the U.S.
  Patent and Trade Office (PTO) and congressional
  representatives saw to the collection,
  propagation and distribution of varieties to
  their constituents throughout the states and
  territories. The program grew quickly so that, by
  1861, the PTO had annual distribution of more
  than 2.4 million packages of seed (containing
  five packets of different varieties). The flow of
  seed reached its highest volume in 1897 (under
  USDA management) with more than 1.1 billion
  packets of seed distributed.

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• n form and in essence seed shares much with
  story information encapsulated, a narrative
  describing generations of plant and farmer
  relationships, a personal and/or collective
  journal exploring a paradox of influence does
  the farmer make the seed or the seed make the
  farmer? Do cultures generate stories or stories
  create cultures? We select seeds towards
  domestication, taming of the wild, much in the
  same way we have created mythologies to
  understand life and death, to civilize the chaos
  of the cosmos. For much of my life I have been
  surrounded and influenced by women and men who
  have been made by seed and story, whose lives
  have been altered by what might be mistaken for a
  worthless spec of dust or scratching on a paper,
  but what in actuality holds the secrets of our
  food, fiber, shelter, medicine, and much of our
  worlds beauty. The manner in which seed evolves
  and is selected, the way the story is handed
  down, may be as important as the essence of the
  story/seed itself.

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