#14 National Seed Diversity Festival 2017
The national seed diversity festival is being conducted at Anna University from 9 th June 2017 to 11 th June 2017 with the collaboration of ASHA and Bharath Beej Swaraj Manch. This festival witnessed many seed-conserving farmers showcasing an enormous variety of seeds and rice. People commuting to the place via public transports would have to walk a long distance inside the campus to reach the building. Once you enter the place, towards the right you have the registration counter. There is no entrance free and the festival is open to all. After registration, comes a huge hall where all the seeds and rice are showcased. The arrangements of stalls resembled like a school project, where we visit each stall one by one in a linear fashion. Every stall had different types of seeds and millets. Each type of seed also had a name tag and the stall owners were more than kind in answering even our silliest queries and questions. There was one stall from Mysore which showcased fou...