A dimension within Seed & Crop Cultivation
This theme covers the cultivation, farming, and seed saving practices for various pulse crops.
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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.
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 utilizing old seeds from their fields and selecting water-efficient varieties, farmers in Kharod ensure food security with a vital second crop.
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.
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
We keep green gram, black gram, and horse gram seeds, and cultivate them in the second crop.
— Puspanjali Nag
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
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
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
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 a second crop and safely store our own mung bean seeds.
— Anangaprabha Bhoi · Bangomunda, Balangir, Odisha
We will cultivate mustard, green gram, and other crops, store their 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
We will do the second cultivation of gram and mustard. We keep good seeds, ensure proper soil, and provide fertilizer. We will also do separate cultivation. We always store good seeds for proper farming.
— Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha
We will cultivate a second crop, preserve the seeds, and cultivate for the upcoming year as well.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, 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
We will cultivate mustard, moong, and other crops, save the seeds, and cultivate them again next year.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
We have cultivated moong and urad this rainy season. We will keep the seeds and cultivate again next rainy season.
— Gitanjali Bhoi
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 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
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
Yes, we cultivate a second crop, which includes pulse crops like finger millet, black gram, and horse gram. We cultivate these crops for the second time, and again we enjoy their benefits with care.
— Sastensh khura
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
We keep seeds and grow a second crop.
— Puspanjali Nag
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
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
Yes, we cultivate a second crop, for which we use the old pigeon pea (arhar) seeds from our fields during irrigation.
— RAJNIKANT RATNAKAR · Kharod, Janjgir-Champa, Chhattisgarh
We cultivated moong and urad dal this year and saved the seeds to cultivate again next year.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
Yes, we plant a second crop, cultivating wheat, chickpeas, and pulses.
— Bhagora kanti Lal · Dungarpur, Rajasthan
We will undertake a second cultivation of chickpeas and mustard, using good seeds. By providing good soil and fertilizer, we will also cultivate them separately. For successful cultivation, we always reserve good seeds.
— Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha
For the second crop, we also cultivate horse gram, black gram, pigeon pea, and chickpea.
— Jagannath Baraik · Ranchi, Jharkhand
We will cultivate green gram and black gram this year and save the seeds for cultivation next year.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
We have cultivated green gram this year. We will save the seeds and cultivate again next year.
— Gitanjali Bhoi
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
When we cultivate for the second time, we save those seeds from the produce itself to cultivate again next year.
— Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha
I have selected and stored chickpea, black gram, and green gram seeds for cultivating a second crop.
— TRILOCHAN BAG · Borigumma, Koraput, Odisha
When we store farmer's seeds, we sow them in the field during the second cultivation.
— Puspanjali Nag
In the second crop, in rural areas, crops such as chickpeas, lentils from Surat, and pigeon peas are cultivated. Their seeds are also preserved.
— Jagannath Baraik · Lapung, Ranchi, Jharkhand
Every year, after the crop harvest, I cultivate moong (green gram) in the second crop season. For this, I save my harvested crop as seeds for the next year.
— Paradeshi Mirdha · Sambalpur, 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 have cultivated moong and black gram and kept the seeds. I will cultivate again in the rainy season.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
Mulching mulching. Today you are cultivating the second crop of green gram. Yes, where do you get the seeds from? We buy them. Okay. And you save the seeds.
— Trinath Beshra · Ampani, Kalahandi, Odisha
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