Talk:Indian Landrace Exchange

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Page scope

Indian Landrace Exchange is about the group, what it says about its seed lines and how it distributes them. Lines held as seed have their own accession pages, and the article lists them.

Sourcing

The article rests on the group's own website, one trade-press interview (Leafly, 2021), the copy of a seed shop that sells its lines (Seeds Here Now), the seed database SeedFinder, and posts on the growers' forums Rollitup, grower.ch and Overgrow. Everything taken from the group's site, from its founder's interview or from a shop is that source's account and is attributed as such. Forum posts are attributed to their authors by username. Discuss attribution, independent sourcing and any claim that has lost its attribution here.

Discussion

The founder's name

Leafly (2021) names Deepak Chaudhary as the person who "helped found the Indian Landrace Exchange" and gives the Instagram handle @irrazinig; the group's own website links to that account. Seeds Here Now writes the name "Irrazin". Forum posts write Irrazinig and Irrizinig. No other personal detail is used.

When the group began

• Seeds Here Now, which sells the group's seed: co-founded in 2015, working from Chiang Mai, Thailand.
• Leafly: Chaudhary's first trip, to Malana, was in 2016.
• The website's oldest article is dated 14 February 2019, and its copyright line reads 2021. The genetic library dates from the rebuild of the site in June 2021: its 35 entries were posted between 10 June and 6 July 2021, apart from one revised in March 2022. Its dates are listing dates, not collection dates.

Full Power Selections and Paklandrace Exchange

What the sources say, each in its own words (see also Talk:Full Power Selections):

• Full Power Selections' catalogue describes the group's tour books as "written and published by Indian Landrace Exchange" and sells a T-shirt with the group's name. Most of the lines it lists as landrace have the names of genetic-library entries.
• A post copied to Overgrow on 28 February 2021 said that the Durand Line pre-order "will be conducted by our inhouse Indian seedbank" and tagged @fullpowerselections, @paklandracexchange and @irrazinig.
• Paklandrace Exchange tagged a LinkedIn post of November 2022 #TheAfghanProject2022, the name of the group's 2022 tour.
• Forum members' views: "Full power Selections is the Indian Landrace Exchange affiliate" (Overgrow, Upstate, 5 May 2023); "Them, Full Power Selections and ILE are all tied to some degree" (Overgrow, tweezer_caspian, 11 December 2025); a grower.ch member believed that Irrazinig "ist auch der Head von "fullpowerselections"" (Synthracer, 19 March 2025).

No source names the owner of Full Power Selections or Paklandrace Exchange; the links above are the shop's catalogue, the group's own post and forum members' views.

SeedFinder and the genetic library

SeedFinder lists 67 lines under the group's name and the genetic library 35. The extra SeedFinder entries are mostly selections from the Afghan and Chitral tours (Maruf, Nawa, Daman, Markaz Baboos, Arghandab, Manar, Buni, Mastuj, Kalash, Yarkhun, Kumrat), the Hopar Valley and Balochistan selections, and the crosses Double Dalai, ESP and Urgam x Malana.

Genome mapping

Chaudhary told Leafly that "By mapping the genome of plants grown in indigenous communities, we have been able to prove these are unique native varietals". The statement names no published study, so it is not used.

Farmers' names and seller's descriptions

• The genetic library names the farmers who supplied some lines; their names are not used.
• The library's descriptions of effects, flavours and flowering times are the seller's claims and are not used.

Title

Indian Landrace Exchange is the name on the group's website and in every source on the group. Forum posts also write ILE and ILRE.