A dimension within Pulses & Heritage Farming
Centered on the cultivation of specific crops like chickpeas and moong dal, with an emphasis on food sales and preservation.
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After the main harvest, we harness the land's natural moisture to cultivate a vital second crop, ensuring food and oil for our families.

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 relying on traditional farming methods and saving our own seeds, we ensure food security and healthy crops without external inputs.

By cultivating a variety of crops, preserving ancestral seeds, and exploring animal husbandry, we build a resilient livelihood for our community.
I will cultivate and sell moong and lentils.
— Anupama Mahanand
I will cultivate moong dal varieties, and by cultivating them again, I will preserve and sell them.
— Anupama Mahanand
Yes, I cultivate my second crop, which is vegetables, cultivate and sell them, and then also chickpeas there.
— Priti majhi
I farm chickpeas
— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
I cultivate vegetables for my second crop, cultivate them, and sell them, and then also chickpeas there.
— Priti majhi
I will cultivate chickpeas myself and store them for next year, and I will cultivate again next year, in a traditional way.
— Anupama Mahanand · Sundargarh, Odisha
I will cultivate chickpeas, save them, and also keep some for next year's cultivation.
— Anupama Mahanand
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
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
I will cultivate moong and sell it, and I will also cultivate mustard and sell it, and I will collect the money and save it.
— Anupama Mahanand
I will cultivate varieties of pulses and will get them again next year, collect and store them, and then process them traditionally.
— Anupama Mahanand · Subdega, 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
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
Yes, I am a farmer. I cultivate moong and mustard using traditional methods with my own seeds.
— Paradeshi Mirdha · Sambalpur, Odisha
By cultivating green gram, I will keep this year's green gram for next year and cultivate again.
— Anupama Mahanand · Sundargarh, Odisha
By cultivating pulses, I will save for the next year and then cultivate again in the traditional way.
— Anupama Mahanand
I will bring good variety vegetable seeds to my farm, grow vegetables, and sell them in the nearby market to run my household.
— Vijay kanesh · Mathwad, Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
I want to grow a second crop of everything, from which I will cultivate pulses, keep some for eating, and sell some in the market.
— Pushpalata Surtange · Simga, Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh
We cultivate chickpeas and peas, also plant chilies, and sell them in the market. Farming is my livelihood, and we farm and sustain ourselves.
— Ram Kumari · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
I cultivate Bathua and Lentil.
— Manjusha Marko · Dudhi, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
This year I will cultivate moong and save it for next year, and then I will cultivate traditionally again.
— Anupama Mahanand · 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
I cultivate horse gram.
— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
Yes, I cultivate pulses or oilseeds. We buy seeds and sow them.
— Krishna pada mahato · Beltnar, East Singhbhum, Jharkhand
I will cultivate mung bean, black gram, and chickpea during the rainy season, after storing their seeds.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
I want to preserve traditional farming by cultivating pulses and carry this tradition forward.
— Pushpalata Surtange · Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh
I am farming using my own seeds.
— Padmini Bhoi
Yes, I cultivate chickpea, pigeon pea, and lentil as a second crop.
— Jagannath Baraik · Lapung, Ranchi, Jharkhand
I cultivate pulses as a second crop without irrigation, adopting organic methods, and I store urad dal and horse gram seeds, using them for cultivation every year.
— DASHARATH SINGH · Bhojpur, Sambalpur, Odisha
Yes, I cultivate pulses and oilseeds. I collect pulse seeds and buy oilseeds.
— Krishna pada mahato · Purulia, West Bengal
Yes, I am cultivating moong using traditional methods.
— Madan Hantal · Pujariguda, Malkangiri, Odisha
To cultivate chickpeas and preserve seeds.
— Sunita Kumari · Sonbhadra, Uttar 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
By cultivating pulses, I will use them for eating and save a little for next year's crop.
— Pushpalata Surtange · Tilda Neora, Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh
I cultivate lentils as a second crop with zero irrigation, using cow dung manure and following traditional methods. I store black gram and horse gram seeds and use them for cultivation every year.
— DASHARATH SINGH · Sambalpur, Odisha
I want to plant pulse crops in my fields so that I can make a living from them.
— Ranu begam · Pamgarh, Janjgir-Champa, Chhattisgarh
I am a small farmer and I am currently interested in cultivating a second crop. This is my second rain-fed crop, and in it, we cultivate moong and black gram.
— Parikshit Majhi
I will cultivate and sell the produce, and collect money.
— Anupama Mahanand
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