A dimension within Legume Crop Farming
Focusing on the cultivation of essential crops like wheat and chickpeas.
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Our tribal community shares how to cultivate vital crops like chickpeas, corn, and lentils, even in dry conditions without relying on irrigation.
By cultivating a variety of crops, preserving ancestral seeds, and exploring animal husbandry, we build a resilient livelihood for our community.
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.
To build resilience and ensure sustenance, our community embraces a variety of farming practices, from diverse crops to different livestock.
Lentil cultivation, chickpea cultivation
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Cultivation of chickpea, pea, mustard
— Vinita Singh Yadav · Dharura, 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
You can cultivate chickpeas and lentils.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Cultivation of lentils and pulses
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Cultivation of peas and chickpeas
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Cultivation of peas and chickpeas
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
They cultivate chickpeas, mustard, and peas.
— Vinita Singh Yadav · Mukasim, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
They cultivate chickpeas and peas.
— अमर जीत · Kota, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
In our region, zero-irrigation crops of pulses and oilseeds are cultivated, which include pigeon pea, lentil, etc.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
Wheat and lentils can be cultivated.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
You can cultivate peas and chickpeas.
— Sunita Kumari
Wheat and lentil can be cultivated.
— Sunita Kumari
Yes, along with wheat and chickpeas, pulse crops and other crops are cultivated.
— Bhagora kanti Lal · Dungarpur, Rajasthan
Cultivation of pulses
— Jagannath Baraik · Lapung, Ranchi, Jharkhand
Cultivation of irrigated peas and lentils.
— Sunita Kumari
In our region, especially minimal-input, zero-irrigation crops like pigeon pea, black gram, red lentil, etc., are cultivated.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
These are all low-irrigation plants like peas, chickpeas, lentils, and agricultural mustard. They can all be cultivated.
— Vinita Singh Yadav · Dharura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
They cultivate chickpeas and sorghum during the monsoon.
— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
They practice rainfed farming, growing chickpea and kharif sorghum.
— Kachala Choudhary
We cultivate zero-input crops like chickpeas, flaxseed, and pigeon pea. Even with less water, the crops ripen, and their seeds are also collected. Narayan Lal Baranda.
— narayanlalbaranda5@gmail.com · Jhapa, Dungarpur, Rajasthan
We farm with less irrigation. Batari peas, horse gram, and pigeon pea are also grown.
— Kamleah Kumar · Kota, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
After harvesting paddy, we cultivate lentil, gram, and wheat here.
— Kekti Tekam
In rural areas, black gram, chickpea, and pigeon pea crops are grown.
— Jagannath Baraik · Lapung, Ranchi, Jharkhand
We cultivate pulses with less irrigation. Field peas, horse gram, and pigeon pea are all grown with less irrigation.
— Kamleah Kumar · Kota, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We can grow other crops like chickpeas, lentils, khesari, peas, and linseed without water or irrigation.
— arun raja · Ormaura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
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
Cultivation of lentils
— Vinita Singh Yadav · Dharura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Chickpea and dryland sorghum are cultivated as rain-fed crops.
— Surajsingh Parmar · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
Currently, in the Rabi season, pulse crops are grown, mainly including lentils, peas, chickpeas, wheat, etc.
— Ram Maravi · Dindori, Madhya Pradesh
They refer to the inherited rain-fed cultivation as chickpea and lentil farming.
— bachcha lal · Shahganj, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
These days, they are sowing barley, peas, chickpeas, and wheat. Barley grows with one or two irrigations. Waterless farming is pigeon pea cultivation, which does not require water; it is sown in the rainy season and harvested in April-May.
— Ram Kumari · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Chickpea, mung bean, and urad dals are grown as other crops.
— Jagannath Baraik · Ranchi, Jharkhand
We can grow crops without irrigation like Ragi, Masoor, and Horse Gram. Millet.
— arun raja · Kon, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Cultivation and maintenance of chickpea and pea
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
In our area, crops that require zero irrigation, such as pulses and oilseeds, are cultivated.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
We do farming with ploughs and bullocks, cultivating crops like saawa, medo mijhri, and pulses such as arhar (pigeon pea), urad (black gram), and baturi. Nowadays, government seeds for pulses are also available. We also cultivate crops like chana (chickpea), matar (pea), and masoor (lentil).
— Ram Kumari · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Cultivation of pigeon pea and linseed.
— Chanda
Chickpea and pea cultivation and maintenance
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
