Traditional Dryland Conservation

Do you cultivate a second crop with zero irrigation and follow traditional farming and seed protection? Yes.

— Rajesh Mallik · Boudh, Odisha

Yes, I grow a second crop using zero irrigation and also save seeds with traditional farming methods.

— Vimala

Yes, a second crop is grown with zero irrigation. Using traditional methods, with the help of a plow, they save seeds for themselves.

— Paradeshi Mirdha · Rengali, Sambalpur, Odisha

Yes, a second crop is grown with zero irrigation, and seeds are saved for oneself using a plow with traditional methods.

— Paradeshi Mirdha · Rengali, Sambalpur, Odisha

If we cultivate a second crop with zero irrigation, we will also practice conservation through traditional farming methods. Wheat and gram are among the most important crops for conservation.

— Laxmanlal

On our vacant land, we grow a second crop without irrigation, using traditional seeds and traditional methods.

— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

If we are to grow a second crop with zero irrigation, then we will also conserve using traditional farming methods, and we can use wheat, gram, and mustard in conservation.

— Bhagora kanti Lal · Malmatha, Dungarpur, Rajasthan

If we are to cultivate a second crop with zero irrigation, then we will conserve using traditional farming methods. Wheat, chickpea, and mustard can also be used for conservation.

— Bhagora kanti Lal · Malmatha, Dungarpur, Rajasthan

Do you grow a second crop without irrigation, along with traditional farming and seed conservation?

— Amar Lal Dhurwey · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

We have been doing zero irrigation, second crop cultivation, and traditional farming.

— Tankeswar Kumar · Kalahandi, Odisha

Yes, we cultivate a second crop without water. And farming is also done without water. We have collected and kept those seeds. And we will again plant that as a second crop.

— Ulapi Sahu

From the very beginning, we cultivate a second crop without irrigation using old methods and traditional seeds. The method of storing these seeds is also traditional, and our fields are ploughed using bullocks.

— Rupesh Maravi · Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh

Do you conserve seeds and traditionally grow a second crop without irrigation? Yes, yes.

— Niranjan Lauria · Boudh, Odisha

If we are to grow a second crop with zero irrigation, we can do traditional farming. We will conserve. That conservation would include wheat and chickpeas.

— Prakash Kumar

Yes, I am cultivating a second crop with irrigation and following traditional farming methods and seed protection.

— Sabina · Tumudibandh, Kandhamal, Odisha

Yes, we cultivate the second crop without water. And cultivation happens even without water. And we collect and store those seeds. And then again, we use that for the second crop.

— Ulapi Sahu · Patnāgarh, Balangir, 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

Yes, we conserve traditional seeds using traditional methods and also farm using traditional methods, where, by God's grace, the crop grows even without irrigation.

— Rupesh Maravi · Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh

I am doing 2nd crop in zero irrigation. I am also preserving the seeds and adopting the organic farming.

— Bindhani Bibhuti · Tamando, Khordha, Odisha

They are cultivating a second crop with zero irrigation and also following traditional agricultural practices, but they are not following seed protection.

— Pankajini Chhatria

Yes, I cultivate the second crop using traditional farming methods and seed preservation.

— Sabina · Tumudibandh, Kandhamal, Odisha

We cultivate a second crop which is also grown without irrigation. Therefore, we get many benefits and profit from it. And we preserve seeds for the second crop.

— Anirudha Marai

Yes, we are cultivating for the second time. We are preserving those seeds using traditional methods.

— Selina Pangi

Yes, we also grow other crops without irrigation using traditional methods, which we call 'unhari' crops. We also store their seeds using traditional methods.

— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

Yes, on our fallow fields, even without irrigation, we grow other crops and use traditional seeds, ploughing and sowing with oxen according to old methods.

— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

Cultivates moong as a second crop using traditional methods in zero irrigation.

— Paradeshi Mirdha · Rengali, Sambalpur, Odisha

We are cultivating a second crop in Dhanapur, and by keeping our own seeds safe, we are farming using traditional cultivation methods. This is our

— Padmalochan Majhi · Ratachua, Rayagada, Odisha

Yes, I grow a second crop without irrigation and save the seeds from that crop.

— Paradeshi Mirdha · Sambalpur, Odisha

Yes, we grow zero-irrigation crops and follow simple traditional farming methods and 20 conservation.

— Laxmanlal

Yes, we do zero irrigation farming and also do seed conservation.

— Kekti Tekam · Dindori, Madhya Pradesh

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

If we are to cultivate a second crop with zero irrigation, we will preserve traditional farming methods. We also request the government to allow us to grow wheat, gram, and mustard.

— Jayanti Bhagora · Malmatha, Dungarpur, Rajasthan

Yes, I cultivate pulses as a second crop using zero irrigation. Our ancestors used to farm this way, and I also save urad and horse gram seeds to farm using this organic method every year.

— DASHARATH SINGH · Sambalpur, Odisha