{"id":23447,"date":"2024-05-17T03:21:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T21:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=23447"},"modified":"2025-04-07T02:35:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T21:05:39","slug":"deda-method","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/deda-method\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Deda Method?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Deda Method:\u00a0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a method of <strong>preserving seeds<\/strong> that his ancestors handed over to his family.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>How do they preserve?<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>seeds are preserved in leaves<\/strong> and packed almost <strong>airtight<\/strong> to look like boulders from a distance.<\/li>\n<li>The packaged seeds are, in turn, <strong>woven with Siali leaf<\/strong> (Bauhinia vahlii), which is locally known as \u2018addakulu\u2019 to make the deda.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>A deda has three layers. In the first layer, <strong>wood ash is spread<\/strong> inside the Siali leaves.<\/li>\n<li>Later, the ash is covered with <strong>lemon leaves<\/strong> to form a casing, and, lastly, the seeds are preserved inside the casing and sealed. Each deda is crafted to support at least 5kg of seeds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Advantages<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The deda method guarantees <strong>protection<\/strong> of seed from <strong>pests and worms.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>In this method, the stored seeds can be used <strong>for cultivation for up to five years.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It helps in preserving the seeds of pulses like the green gram, red gram, black gram and beans.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key facts about Muria Tribe<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Location:<\/strong> They are located in the states of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Odisha. They <strong>speak Koya<\/strong>, which is a Dravidian language.<\/li>\n<li>The Muria settlements are known as habitations of <strong>Internally Displaced People<\/strong> (IDPs), whose population is around 6,600 in A.P., and they here are referred<strong> to as \u2018Gutti Koyas\u2019<\/strong> by the native tribes.<\/li>\n<li>They have progressive perspective towards marriage and life as a whole. The biggest example being <strong>the Ghotul<\/strong> (a commune or dormitory), which is meant to create an environment for Muria youth to understand their sexuality.<\/li>\n<li>Gutti Koyas\u2019 The held ST status in Chattisgarh but they were not granted ST status in their migrated states such as Telangana.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is the characteristic of Monocot plants?<\/h3>\n<p>These are marked by seeds with a single cotyledon, parallel-veined leaves, scattered vascular bundles in the stem, the absence of a typical cambium, and an adventitious root system.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/andhra-pradesh\/muria-tribes-own-eco-friendly-foolproof-seed-preservation-method\/article68178897.ece#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Muria tribes\u2019 own eco-friendly, foolproof seed preservation method<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deda Method  is a method of preserving seeds that his ancestors handed over to his family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23447","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}