A dimension within Traditional Crop Cultivation
Discussing the cultivation of various pulse crops like lentils and chickpeas in rural farming settings.
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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 carefully collecting and preserving seeds from our first harvest, we ensure a second, nutritious crop and maintain our traditional farming methods for generations.
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.
In rural areas, chickpeas, pigeon pea, and lentils are cultivated as a second crop. Their seeds are also preserved.
— Jagannath Baraik · Lapung, Ranchi, Jharkhand
For the second crop in rural areas, chickpea, moong, lentil, and pigeon pea are cultivated, and their seeds are conserved.
— Jagannath Baraik · Lapung, Ranchi, Jharkhand
They cultivate lentils and save its seeds for the next crop.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
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
They keep chickpea and lentil seeds.
— Vinita Singh Yadav · Dharura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Seeds are saved by cultivating lentils.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Lentil seeds are preserved after cultivation.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
To cultivate chickpeas and preserve seeds.
— Sunita Kumari · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
In the second crop, chickpea, moong dal, masoor dal, and arhar dal seeds are also conserved.
— Jagannath Baraik · Lapung, Ranchi, Jharkhand
To cultivate chickpeas and conserve seeds
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
By cultivating chickpeas, they keep its seeds.
— Sunita Kumari
Cultivating chickpeas and also conserving them
— Sunita Kumari
After the paddy crop, they plant the Tīvra lentil crop, and they also preserve the pulse crop and seeds.
— vijay malhotra · Behla, Janjgir-Champa, Chhattisgarh
In the second crop, masoor dal and arhar dal seeds are also preserved.
— Jagannath Baraik · Lapung, Ranchi, Jharkhand
Cultivating chickpeas and preserving them.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We will save these lentils and chickpeas to use as seeds for next year's farming.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Lentil cultivation, chickpea cultivation
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
They store chickpea seeds.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Peas and chickpea seeds are kept
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We carefully keep the chickpea seeds so that we can cultivate next year.
— Sunita Kumari
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
They cultivate chickpeas and keep them safe.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Cultivation of lentils and pulses
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
You can cultivate chickpeas and lentils.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We keep green gram, black gram, and horse gram seeds, and cultivate them in the second crop.
— Puspanjali Nag
We stored the chickpea seeds carefully so that we can cultivate next year.
— Sunita Kumari
We save the chickpeas so that we can cultivate them next year.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Performs a second cultivation. Cultivates pulse crops such as lentils, chickpeas, and paddy. Stores them.
— Priti majhi
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
— Vinita Singh Yadav · Dharura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
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
They cultivate chickpeas and peas.
— अमर जीत · Kota, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We grow pulse crops, keep them for our daily consumption, and save a small amount of the remaining seeds for the next crop.
— Pushpalata Surtange · Bemetara, Chhattisgarh
Yes, pulses are cultivated in this. According to our ancestors, we also preserve seeds.
— Jagannath Baraik · Bayang, Seraikela-Kharsawan, Jharkhand
Cultivation and maintenance of chickpea and pea
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We cultivate seeds such as chickpea, lentil, mustard, and horse gram using traditional, possibly rain-fed, farming methods. We preserve these seeds and cultivate them using this traditional agricultural practice.
— Laxmi Sahu
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
Cultivate pulse varieties and save them for the next year, and then cultivate again using traditional methods.
— Anupama Mahanand · Sundargarh, Odisha
We are cultivating moong and urad beans. We have kept seeds and will cultivate again next year.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
