A dimension within Dryland Pulse Cultivation
This theme centers on agricultural strategies like dry farming and water conservation to grow legumes and other crops in drought-prone conditions.
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Our tribal community shares how to cultivate vital crops like chickpeas, corn, and lentils, even in dry conditions without relying on irrigation.
Facing the prospect of future water scarcity, our community relies on cultivating traditional zero-irrigation crops to secure food and conserve precious resources.
After the main harvest, we harness the land's natural moisture to cultivate a vital second crop, ensuring food and oil for our families.
Even without irrigation, our traditional seeds and old farming methods ensure our crops ripen, providing food for our homes.
Crops that can be grown without water include sesame, masoor lentil, pea, mustard, and pigeon pea. All these can be obtained without water.
— Chanda
Crops that are grown without irrigation, such as pigeon pea, black gram, lentils, and chickpea, can all be cultivated without needing water.
— Chanda
Black gram, green gram, mustard, horse gram will grow without water.
— Parsuram Sa · Sundargarh, Odisha
Mustard and pigeon pea cultivation can be done without water.
— Chanda
Crops like horse gram and mustard are cultivated without irrigation as they do not require much water.
— Upendra Kumar Mahananda
Crops that grow without water include Tura, peas, chickpeas, Sahir, mustard, and peas.
— Vijay Kumar bhardwaj
Pigeon pea and groundnut can be grown without irrigation.
— Chanda
Cultivation of moong or urad is possible without water.
— Chanda
You can grow chickpeas, corn, lentils, flaxseed, peas, peas without water.
— arun raja · Kon, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We can grow crops without irrigation like Ragi, Masoor, and Horse Gram. Millet.
— arun raja · Kon, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We can grow other crops like chickpeas, lentils, khesari, peas, and linseed without water or irrigation.
— arun raja · Ormaura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
They grow flaxseed, sesame, niger seed, bottle gourd, pigeon pea, and beans without water.
— Kamleah Kumar · Ormaura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Crops that can be grown without water, such as pumpkin, bottle gourd, squash, and drumstick, can all be cultivated without irrigation.
— Chanda
Pulses grown without irrigation: Horse gram and Niger seed.
— Chanda · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Millet can be cultivated without water, and pigeon pea and black gram also do not require much water, yet they grow well.
— Ram Kumari · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Unirrigated sesame, mung bean, peanut
— Chanda · Dharura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Yes, we cultivate without water, such as hardy crops. These include Moong, Urad, and Mustard.
— Ulapi Sahu · Balangir, Odisha
We cultivate horse gram, green gram, black gram, and chickpea, for which we do not arrange irrigation.
— Upendra Kumar Mahananda
Mung bean, almond, and urad bean are zero-irrigation crops.
— Chanda · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
In our area, crops that require zero irrigation, such as pulses and oilseeds, are cultivated.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
Yes, they grow other crops with zero irrigation. Here, for example, horse gram, ragi, kodo millet, black gram, kodo millet.
— Birohin · Mohla, Mohla-Manpur-Ambagarh Chowki, Chhattisgarh
Bottle gourd, pumpkin, and beans also grow without water.
— Puspanjali Nag
Bottle gourd, pumpkin, and beans also grow without water.
— Puspanjali Nag
In our region, zero-irrigation crops of pulses and oilseeds are cultivated, which include pigeon pea, lentil, etc.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
We cultivate our crops without irrigation, relying on natural moisture like dew water. For example, we grow mung bean, black gram, and mustard. These three particular crops, we cultivate without irrigation.
— Ulapi Sahu · Balangir, Odisha
Horse gram and tea are crops grown without irrigation.
— arun raja · Kon, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Turmeric and almond are crops that grow without water.
— Chanda
In our region, zero irrigation crops like oilseeds and pulses are grown.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
In our region, zero irrigation crops include pulses such as pigeon pea, fish bean (machea), khesari, horse gram, and black gram.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
Yes. How should I put it? Barnyard millet grows without water. And Kodo millet also grows without water. Pigeon pea and black gram.
— Ram Kumari · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We cultivate moong, horse gram, black gram, and mustard without water. We call it Nipania cultivation in Sambalpuri.
— Upendra Kumar Mahananda
These are all low-irrigation plants like peas, chickpeas, lentils, and agricultural mustard. They can all be cultivated.
— Vinita Singh Yadav · Dharura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
They cultivate pulses using zero irrigation.
— Sunil oraon · Bero, Ranchi, Jharkhand
Chickpeas are grown without water.
— Kachala Choudhary
We cultivate mung bean, urad bean, chickpea, lentil, moong, etc., without water, and we are still doing it.
— Naukeshi Sahu
In our region, especially minimal-input, zero-irrigation crops like pigeon pea, black gram, red lentil, etc., are cultivated.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
How will crops, masoor, and arhar grow without irrigation?
— Chanda
We farm with less irrigation. Batari peas, horse gram, and pigeon pea are also grown.
— Kamleah Kumar · Kota, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Before, we used to cultivate crops without water: bajra, maize, kodo, mezhri, and arhar (pigeon pea).
— Kamleah Kumar · Ormaura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
In our region, zero irrigation crops are cultivated, mainly pulses and oilseeds.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
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