Details:
Village(s): Tosh, Tosh-Kutla
District: Manikaran
Province: Himachal Pradesh
Area: Parvati Valley
Region: Northwest India
Appellation: Tosh
Country: India
Regional Planting: Spring
Regional Harvest: October to November
Height: 1-4 metres
Classification: NLD type Landrace population
 
General Info:
Tosh Village sits at the end of a newly constructed road from Barshaini with the old ‘Kutla’ fields - now a small hamlet a few kilometers farther up the valley towards the glaciers of Pin-Parvati national park.

Over the years the slow creep upwards of the fields has become very noticeable in Tosh due to the rapid expansion of the hamlet into a small town with a mass tourism industry. These days, the village feral plants are closely guarded and rubbed very early while the main ‘Upper’ fields are harvested after and are much higher above the village in the surrounding valleys.

Tosh-Kutla - ‘Kutla’ meaning ‘higher ground’ in the local Kullui dialect used to be the location of significant fields until 2005 when large police raids forced the growers up the mountain into the locations of the current fields. The total growing area - though scattered - is huge with domesticate landrace fields extending in every direction on the higher altitudes. Goi and Chorang stand out as some of the best situated fields with the most beautiful plants this season. We made a lot of selections there from deeply pigmented black and purple plants.

Sharam Thatch is a spectacular field set apart from the rest by its location at 3500m altitude about 2 hours hike further towards the glacier from Kutla. Seeds from here are limited due to the effort needed to reach this location even compared to the other collection sites! 
 
Accession info:
Please see our guide to how the accessions are classified and named here.
The following accessions were made from September to November 2022.
 
Tosh Village General Population
Type: Open Pollinated Domesticate Landrace
Lieux-dit: N/A
Altitude: 2400-3000m
Height: 1.5-3 metres
 
Tosh Village Selection
Type: Open Pollinated Domesticate Landrace
Lieux-dit: N/A
Altitude: 2400-3000m
Height: 1.5-3 metres
 
Tosh ‘Upper’ Selection
Type: Open Pollinated Domesticate Landrace
Lieux-dit: ‘Upper’
Altitude: 3000-3500m
Height: 1.5-3 metres
 
Tosh Feral Selection
Type: Open Pollinated Feral Landrace
Lieux-dit: N/A
Altitude: 2400-3000m
Height: 1.5-4 metres
 
Tosh-Kutla Village General Population
Type: Open Pollinated Domesticate Landrace
Lieux-dit: N/A
Altitude: 2400-3000m
Height: 1.5-3 metres
 
Tosh-Kutla Village Selection
Type: Open Pollinated Domesticate Landrace
Lieux-dit: N/A
Altitude: 2400-3000m
Height: 1.5-3 metres
 
Tosh-Kutla ‘Goi’ Selection
Type: Open Pollinated Domesticate Landrace
Lieux-dit: ‘Goi’
Altitude: 3000-3200m
Height: 1.5-3 metres
 
Tosh-Kutla ‘Goi Black’ Selection
Type: Open Pollinated Domesticate Landrace
Lieux-dit: ‘Goi’
Altitude: 3000-3200m
Height: 1.5-3 metres
 
Tosh-Kutla ‘Chorang’ Selection
Type: Open Pollinated Domesticate Landrace
Lieux-dit: ‘Chorang’
Altitude: 3000-3200m
Height: 1.5-3 metres
 
Tosh-Kutla ‘Chorang Black’ Selection
Type: Open Pollinated Domesticate Landrace
Lieux-dit: ‘Chorang’
Altitude: 3000-3200m
Height: 1.5-3 metres
 
Tosh-Kutla ‘Sharam Thatch’ Selection
Type: Open Pollinated Domesticate Landrace
Lieux-dit: ‘Sharam Thatch’
Altitude: 3500m
Height: 1.5-3 metres
 
Tosh-Kutla ‘Sharam Thatch’ Feral Selection
Type: Open Pollinated Feral Landrace
Lieux-dit: N/A
Altitude: 3500m
Height: 1.5-4 metres