A dimension within Crop Cycle Management
This theme covers the cultivation of various crops, including pulses like chickpeas, seeds, and oilseeds.
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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.

By cultivating a variety of crops, preserving ancestral seeds, and exploring animal husbandry, we build a resilient livelihood for our community.

After the main harvest, we harness the land's natural moisture to cultivate a vital second crop, ensuring food and oil for our families.

To build resilience and ensure sustenance, our community embraces a variety of farming practices, from diverse crops to different livestock.
Cultivation of peas and chickpeas
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Cultivation of peas and chickpeas
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Cultivation of lentils and pulses
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Lentil cultivation, chickpea cultivation
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Cultivation of pulses
— Jagannath Baraik · Lapung, Ranchi, Jharkhand
You can cultivate chickpeas and lentils.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
You can cultivate peas and chickpeas.
— Sunita Kumari
They cultivate chickpeas and peas.
— अमर जीत · Kota, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Cultivation of chickpea, pea, mustard
— Vinita Singh Yadav · Dharura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
They cultivate chickpeas, mustard, and peas.
— Vinita Singh Yadav · Mukasim, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
To cultivate chickpeas and preserve seeds.
— Sunita Kumari · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Yes, I cultivate pulses or oilseeds. We buy seeds and sow them.
— Krishna pada mahato · Beltnar, East Singhbhum, Jharkhand
Cultivation and maintenance of chickpea and pea
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
I will cultivate and grow pulse seeds that can be used for consumption, and some can be saved for next year's crop.
— Pushpalata Surtange · Tilda Neora, Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh
To cultivate chickpeas and conserve seeds
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Yes, along with wheat and chickpeas, pulse crops and other crops are cultivated.
— Bhagora kanti Lal · Dungarpur, Rajasthan
Yes, I cultivate chickpea, pigeon pea, and lentil as a second crop.
— Jagannath Baraik · Lapung, Ranchi, Jharkhand
Chickpea and pea cultivation and maintenance
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Cultivation of lentils
— Vinita Singh Yadav · Dharura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Cultivate chickpeas; sow its seeds.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Yes, I cultivate pulses and oilseeds. I collect pulse seeds and buy oilseeds.
— Krishna pada mahato · Purulia, West Bengal
We cultivate pulse crops, which we keep for our own consumption, sell in the market, and also save for seeds.
— Pushpalata Surtange · Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh
Cultivating chickpeas and also conserving them
— Sunita Kumari
Cultivating chickpeas and preserving them.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
By cultivating pulses, we can use them for food and also save them to cultivate other crops.
— Pushpalata Surtange · Simga, Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh
They cultivate lentils and save its seeds for the next crop.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
They cultivate wheat and lentils.
— अमर जीत · Kon, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
They cultivate wheat and lentils.
— अमर जीत · Kon, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Wheat and lentils can be cultivated.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Performs a second cultivation. Cultivates pulse crops such as lentils, chickpeas, and paddy. Stores them.
— Priti majhi
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
Yes, we plant a second crop, cultivating wheat, chickpeas, and pulses.
— Bhagora kanti Lal · Dungarpur, Rajasthan
I farm chickpeas
— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
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
Sir, cultivation of pulses.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Lentil cultivation
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
I will cultivate chickpeas, save them, and also keep some for next year's cultivation.
— Anupama Mahanand
Wheat and lentil can be cultivated.
— Sunita Kumari
Cultivation of irrigated peas and lentils.
— Sunita Kumari
By cultivating pulses, we will use them so that we can eat the pulses and save a small amount for the next crop.
— Pushpalata Surtange · Simga, Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh
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