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    A dimension within Rainfed Crop Cultivation

    Dry Farming Techniques

    This theme highlights agricultural methods like dry farming, focusing on the cultivation of crops, seeds, and pulses in arid conditions.

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    In your area, farmers are actively engaged in the widespread practice of cultivating second crops 🌾, primarily a variety of pulses and oilseeds like green gram, black gram, mustard, and chickpeas, immediately following the paddy harvest. A key highlight is their reliance on zero or minimal irrigation, effectively utilizing residual soil moisture. Farmers demonstrate strong self-reliance through proficient traditional seed saving methods 💡, often incorporating organic practices like using neem leaves to preserve seeds for subsequent years. While the community is largely self-sufficient, a few submissions subtly suggest a desire for improved seed protection or access to specific crop seeds like mustard and chickpeas 🚜 to further enhance their farming progress.

    Dominant Themes

    Second Crop Cultivation (post-paddy)
    Seed Saving and Preservation
    Traditional Farming Methods
    Cultivation of Pulses and Oilseeds
    Zero/Minimal Irrigation Farming

    Actionable Recommendations

    • 🌱 📚 🔒Support and document traditional seed preservation methods, such as using neem leaves, to ensure the long-term viability and genetic diversity of local crop varieties.
    • 💧 🌾 💚Formally acknowledge and provide targeted support for farmers practicing zero or minimal irrigation for second crops, exploring ways to enhance soil moisture retention and organic farming methods.
    • 🤝 🔬 📈Investigate opportunities to provide high-quality, locally adapted seeds for desired second crops (e.g., mustard, chickpeas) to supplement farmers' own saved seeds, and establish platforms for knowledge exchange on best practices.

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    🌾 🌱 🔄

    After harvesting paddy, we are going to cultivate mustard, horse gram, black gram, etc.

    — Parsuram Sa · Hemagiri, Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌱 🧑‍🌾 🌾

    We keep green gram, black gram, and horse gram seeds, and cultivate them in the second crop.

    — Puspanjali Nag

    🌾 🌱 🏡

    After harvesting the paddy, we cultivate crops like moong, urad, chana, and masoor in that field without irrigation. We save these for our home. We then prepare the soil there for further cultivation.

    — swornalata nayak · Patnāgarh, Balangir, Odisha

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    We do farming. We save some seeds beforehand and then cultivate. This way, we get many crops, including green gram, black gram, and pigeon pea.

    — Ulapi Sahu · Balangir, Odisha

    🌱 🤲 🌧️

    I have cultivated moong and black gram and kept the seeds. I will cultivate again in the rainy season.

    — Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    We will cultivate mustard, green gram, and other crops, store their seeds, and cultivate them again next year.

    — Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

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    🌱 🤲 🔄

    We have cultivated moong and urad this rainy season. We will keep the seeds and cultivate again next rainy season.

    — Gitanjali Bhoi

    🌱 🤲 🔄

    This year, we have cultivated green gram, black gram, and chickpeas. We will save the seeds to cultivate them again next year.

    — Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌾 🍲 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

    After we harvest the paddy, we cultivate chickpeas, moong, urad, and gudasua here. We also eat it, and we sell it to sustain our family.

    — Parikshit Majhi

    🚜 🌱 🏡

    After Anukuta, we observe the soil moisture, plow the field, and sow green gram and black gram. We keep these seeds stored at home.

    — Bharati Khandapatra · Mayurbhanj, Odisha

    🌱 🤲 🌧️

    I will cultivate mung bean, black gram, and chickpea during the rainy season, after storing their seeds.

    — Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌾 🌱 📦

    We cultivate green gram. This is our green gram cultivation. We have cultivated green gram. After the paddy harvest, our green gram cultivation takes place. We then make bundles of that green gram and store those bundles there.

    — Bharati Khandapatra · Mayurbhanj, Odisha

    🌾 💧 🌱

    Yes, after the paddy harvest, my land usually remains moist. Taking advantage of that, every year I cultivate mustard and green gram. For this, I store seeds in advance.

    — Paradeshi Mirdha · Sambalpur, Odisha

    🌾 🔄 🌱

    After harvesting paddy, we cultivate lentil, gram, and wheat here.

    — Kekti Tekam

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    We will cultivate mustard, moong, and other crops, save the seeds, and cultivate them again next year.

    — Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    We are cultivating moong and urad beans. We have kept seeds and will cultivate again next year.

    — Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌱 🌾 ✨

    I am cultivating a second crop. My valuable crops are mung bean, black gram, and mustard.

    — RINA BEHERA · Hemagiri, Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌾 🌱 🍽️

    After harvesting the paddy, we plough the land by observing the leaves, and then cultivate green gram and black gram. We use those seeds along with brinjal leaves and lemon leaves.

    — Bharati Khandapatra

    🧑‍🌾 🌱 🌾

    We cultivate mustard, black gram, and horse gram.

    — Puspanjali Nag

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    For the second crop, we cultivate seeds such as moong, urad, and arhar. We save those seeds to cultivate them again the following year.

    — RINA BEHERA · Hemagiri, Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌾 🤲 🌱

    I cultivate green gram and mustard as a second crop, and I collect these seeds to sow them again next year.

    — Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌱 🤲 🔄

    I cultivate green gram and mustard as a second crop, and I collect these seeds to sow them again next year.

    — Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    I cultivate green gram and mustard as a second crop, and I collect these seeds to sow them again next year.

    — Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌱 🤲 🗓️

    Here, we cultivate paddy, sawa, medon, and mijhri. We store sawa, medon, and mijhri at home for sowing in the next year. Additionally, among pulses, we have kurthi and baturi, which we also store and sow the following year.

    — Ram Kumari · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

    🌱 🤲 🔄

    My name is Maheswar Sunani. We cultivate second crops like moong, masoor, and black gram after paddy. We also store seeds using traditional farming methods to cultivate them in the upcoming year.

    — pinku sunani · Khotlabhāta, Nuapada, Odisha

    🫘 🌱 🔄

    I am interested in cultivating a second crop. And we have stored pulse seeds. Moong seeds, moong, black gram, etc.

    — Sushil Nanda · Balāngīr, Balangir, Odisha

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    If you ask about cultivating a second crop in our region, we cultivate mustard, horse gram, and junga. We will save these seeds for next year's crop.

    — Parsuram Sa · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    I have selected and stored chickpea, black gram, and green gram seeds for cultivating a second crop.

    — TRILOCHAN BAG · Borigumma, Koraput, Odisha

    🌱 ☀️ 🌱

    My name is Dillip Kumar, from Mahulpada village. After the rice cultivation is finished, we cultivate green gram and black gram. We dry the seeds in the sun, mix them with neem leaves, tie them tightly, and sow those stored seeds the following year.

    — RUDRA PRASAD BAG · Mahulpāra, Nuapada, Odisha

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    We will cultivate green gram and black gram this year and save the seeds for cultivation next year.

    — Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    Well, I cultivated black gram and chickpeas this year. I will save the seeds and cultivate them next year as well.

    — Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌾 ☀️ ✅

    After harvesting the paddy, we sow green gram, black gram, and chickpeas in this field without water. We harvest them and store them in our house, ensuring no pests infest them.

    — Parikshit Majhi · Balangir, Odisha

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    We have cultivated green gram this year. We will save the seeds and cultivate again next year.

    — Gitanjali Bhoi

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    We cultivated moong and urad dal this year and saved the seeds to cultivate again next year.

    — Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌱 🤲 🔄

    This year, we will cultivate moong, urad, and gram, save the seeds, and cultivate those same seeds again next year.

    — Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha

    👨‍🌾 🔄 💰

    I am a farmer. Immediately after cultivating rice, for a second crop, we plant moong, urad, chickpeas, and horse gram without much additional effort. And that crop turns out well, we consume some and sell the rest.

    — Parikshit Majhi

    🍚 🌱 🍆

    After harvesting rice, we cultivate various crops like mustard, potatoes, and eggplants.

    — Parsuram Sa · Hemagiri, Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    We are cultivating a second crop. In our second crop, we are farming by saving seeds of chickpeas, lentils, and mustard, and applying manure using our traditional farming methods.

    — Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌾 🌱 ♻️

    We cultivate green gram as a second crop every year and keep it as seeds. We cultivate it every year because we incorporate it into the soil after paddy cultivation.

    — Sastensh khura · Khatiguda, Nabarangapur, Odisha

    🌱 ☀️ 🤲

    Name: Purnachandra Pradhan. Village: Gatamaha, G.P. Bondaguda, block Nuagaon, District Kandhamal. We are cultivating green gram, mustard, and black gram as a second crop without irrigation, and we are also saving seeds.

    — Sidheswar Nayak · Kandhamal, Odisha

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