Bagrakote population

Bagrakote population
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Hierarchy
Appellation	Bagrakote (appellation)
Growing area	Dalingkot Duar
Growing region	The Dooars
Country	India
Population
In the field	Present (2025-06)
Map point	26.8758, 88.575 (centroid of 3 accessions' points)
Conservation
Field grade	Data deficient
Items scored	0 of 23 (16 needed)
Item set	Cultivated
Holdings	Urgent · every verified copy is Urgent 3 verified copies from 3 collections; places: not known Every lot Urgent: collection ZOM-IND-WEB-0620250019 Every lot Urgent: collection ZOM-IND-WEB-0620250020 Every lot Urgent: collection ZOM-IND-WEB-0620250021
Method	v0.1 (as of 2026-10-17)
Items Item Score Seen or told Source A1.1 Outer area the population is grown within not known A1.2 Area actually planted not known A1.3 Households that sow and save its seed every year not known A2.1 Loss of outer area over ten years not known A2.2 Loss of planted area over ten years not known A2.3 Year-to-year swing in planted area not known A2.4 Loss of seed-saving households over ten years not known A3.1 Share of descriptors showing two or more states not known A3.2 Share of growers who swap seed locally not known B1.1 Share of growers who say seed is plentiful not known B1.2 Share of growers with someone to take it over not known B1.3 Other local landraces given up in ten years not known B1.4 Share of the crop under modern varieties not known C1.1 Outside support for growing or selling it not known C1.2 How far its main product is sold not known C1.3 How many households use it not known C2.1 Average age of growers not known D1.1 Grown on farms with or without support not known D2.1 Share of growers farming in the traditional way not known D2.2 Share of growers using bought farm chemicals not known D3.1 Payments or pressure to switch varieties not known D3.2 Share of growers hit by floods, drought or fire not known E1 Eradication by the authorities over ten years not known

The Bagrakote population is the cannabis of Bagrakote, a foothill settlement in the Bagrakote appellation, in Jalpaiguri District, West Bengal, India, within The Dooars growing region. It lies at 150 to 200 m on the edge of a large tea-estate complex, where the Western Dooars plains give way to the first ridges of the hills. The Zomia Collective's field report classes the planted cannabis as a domesticate landrace population grown for ganja and describes a feral population near the market.

Accessions

Three accessions were collected at Bagrakote under the expedition code WEB01 on 17 June 2025: a landrace selection and two feral selections.

Accession	Village	Type	Collected	Holder
ZOM-IND-WEB-0620250019	Bagrakote	Selection	2025-06-17	Zomia Genetic Library
ZOM-IND-WEB-0620250020	Bagrakote	Selection	2025-06-17	Zomia Genetic Library
ZOM-IND-WEB-0620250021	Bagrakote	Selection	2025-06-17	Zomia Genetic Library

Field observations

In June 2025 the collectors found a cannabis plant over 2 m tall growing along the outer wall of a house. The grower said it had been grown on purpose and that several feral plants nearby had recently been pulled out to keep them from pollinating it. The grower shared a small amount of seed from the previous year's plants. Behind roadside eateries near the market the collectors found a self-seeding feral stand of about 500 plants or more.

See also

• Bagrakote (appellation)
• The Dooars
• WEB01