A dimension within Farming Livelihoods
Covers the agricultural process from seed saving to crop cultivation, with an emphasis on pulses.
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By carefully collecting and preserving seeds from our first harvest, we ensure a second, nutritious crop and maintain our traditional farming methods for generations.
We carefully save seeds from our diverse crops like chickpeas, lentils, and mustard, ensuring we can grow them again next year and maintain our livelihood.
After the main harvest, we harness the land's natural moisture to cultivate a vital second crop, ensuring food and oil for our families.
By cultivating a variety of crops, preserving ancestral seeds, and exploring animal husbandry, we build a resilient livelihood for our community.
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
We are cultivating moong and urad beans. We have kept seeds and will cultivate again next year.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
We will cultivate mustard, moong, and other crops, save the seeds, and cultivate them again next year.
— 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
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
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
We cultivated moong and urad dal this year and saved the seeds to cultivate again next year.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, 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
We have cultivated moong and urad this rainy season. We will keep the seeds and cultivate again next rainy season.
— Gitanjali Bhoi
We have cultivated green gram this year. We will save the seeds and cultivate again next year.
— Gitanjali Bhoi
We will cultivate green gram and black gram this year and save the seeds for cultivation next year.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
We keep green gram, black gram, and horse gram seeds, and cultivate them in the second crop.
— Puspanjali Nag
We have cultivated mung beans this year. Next year, we will cultivate them using saved seeds.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
This year, we have cultivated paddy and saved the seeds to cultivate again next year.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · 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
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
We cultivated rainfed crops like pigeon pea, mung bean, and black gram, and will continue to cultivate and preserve them for the future.
— bachcha lal · Shahganj, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
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
Previously, we used to cultivate all crops like moong, urad, and kulthi, and we want to continue doing so in the future.
— Jyoti Senapati
There, we cultivate a second crop, Kulthi beans (junga type). The seeds are saved throughout the year, and the same crop is cultivated the following year.
— Parsuram Sa · Sundargarh, Odisha
This year we have cultivated paddy. We will save the seeds and cultivate paddy next year as well.
— 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
We will cultivate all the Karuna bitter gourd seeds this year, collect them for next year, and cultivate them again, just like paddy and moong.
— Anupama Mahanand
We are cultivating paddy this year. We will save the seeds and cultivate next year. No
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
We will cultivate a second crop, preserve the seeds, and cultivate for the upcoming year as well.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
I have cultivated moong and black gram and kept the seeds. I will cultivate again in the rainy season.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
This year, we will cultivate green gram, black gram, and chickpea, save the seeds, and cultivate them again next year. It will come in three months, in three months it has been given, it's a unique crop.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha
Yes, we are cultivating a second crop. We are growing lentils, moong, kalath, and their seeds are also in their traditional way.
— Trinath badanayak · Malakanagiri, Malkangiri, 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
Yes, we grow other crops and also preserve seeds like black gram, pigeon pea, and green gram.
— Jagannath Baraik · Ranchi, Jharkhand
We cultivate seeds such as chickpea, lentil, mustard, and horse gram using traditional, possibly rain-fed, farming methods. We preserve these seeds and cultivate them using this traditional agricultural practice.
— Laxmi Sahu
This year we will cultivate rice, keep the seeds ready to cultivate next year.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
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
At Dhankaathi Sela, they call us Sethi. We will sow green gram, mustard, and chickpeas. Whatever we sow, we will save its seeds and cultivate it again next year.
— Parsuram Sa · Hemagiri, Sundargarh, Odisha
We cultivate for a second time. Then, we personally collect and save those seeds so that we can cultivate again next year.
— Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha
We carefully keep the chickpea seeds so that we can cultivate next year.
— Sunita Kumari
We farm at our home and manage our household with it. We cultivate pigeon pea and other pulses with low water, and also sow barley. These require less water, and we also save them for the next year. This way, we preserve the seeds.
— Ram Kumari · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We save and sow our traditional seeds. Such as chickpea, sorghum, Bhadi, pearl millet, etc.
— Vijay kanesh · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
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
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