Write a short note on Beej Bachao Andolan in TehriNavdanya.
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(1) Beej Bachao Andolan in Tehri and Navdanya-Save the seed movement searches,
reintroduces, collects, tests, distributes and popularizes every indigenous variety of
mountain crops available.
(2) It has also been able to successfully revive the free exchange of seeds within the
community and has proved to be a lifeline of traditional mountain agriculture.
(3) It advocates the discontinuation of the use of chemical dependent seeds and synthetic
chemicals.
(4) These measures, they argue, are also economically viable as diversified crop production
in adequate quantities have been achieved.