A dimension within Dryland Crop Diversity
Focus on cultivating pulse crops with minimal or no irrigation in dry conditions.
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Facing the prospect of future water scarcity, our community relies on cultivating traditional zero-irrigation crops to secure food and conserve precious resources.
Our tribal community shares how to cultivate vital crops like chickpeas, corn, and lentils, even in dry conditions without relying on irrigation.
Even without irrigation, our traditional seeds and old farming methods ensure our crops ripen, providing food for our homes.
After the main harvest, we harness the land's natural moisture to cultivate a vital second crop, ensuring food and oil for our families.
They cultivate pulses using zero irrigation.
— Sunil oraon · Bero, Ranchi, Jharkhand
We cultivate zero-irrigation pulses.
— Sunil oraon · Bero, Ranchi, Jharkhand
In our area, crops that require zero irrigation, such as pulses and oilseeds, are cultivated.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
Rabi crop is cultivated with almost 0 irrigation.
— Sunita Kumari
We grow pulse crops in zero water and
— Anangaprabha Bhoi · Bangomunda, Balangir, Odisha
In our region, zero irrigation crops like oilseeds and pulses are grown.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
They cultivate horse gram pulses through unirrigated farming.
— SUKDEV HEMBRAM
Rabi crops are almost entirely cultivated with zero irrigation.
— Sunita Kumari
In our region, zero irrigation crops are cultivated, mainly pulses and oilseeds.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
Yes, we practice zero irrigation farming.
— Birohin · Mohla-Manpur-Ambagarh Chowki, Chhattisgarh
Yes, we do farming without irrigation.
— Kekti Tekam · Dindori, Madhya Pradesh
We cultivate horse gram, green gram, black gram, and chickpea, for which we do not arrange irrigation.
— Upendra Kumar Mahananda
What crop is cultivated with zero irrigation, like 'Yura Agari' chickpea, without water?
— Vijay Kumar bhardwaj · Kasdol, Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh
Mung bean cultivation is done without irrigation.
— SUKDEV HEMBRAM · Patamda, East Singhbhum, Jharkhand
Crops like horse gram and mustard are cultivated without irrigation as they do not require much water.
— Upendra Kumar Mahananda
Cultivation of moong or urad is possible without water.
— Chanda
Irrigation in horsegram cultivation is zero.
— SUKDEV HEMBRAM
We cultivate our crops without irrigation, relying on natural moisture like dew water. For example, we grow mung bean, black gram, and mustard. These three particular crops, we cultivate without irrigation.
— Ulapi Sahu · Balangir, Odisha
In our region, tribal people cultivate pulse and oilseed crops, which are zero-irrigation crops.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
In our region, zero-irrigation crops of pulses and oilseeds are cultivated, which include pigeon pea, lentil, etc.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
Pulses grown without irrigation: Horse gram and Niger seed.
— Chanda · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Crops that are grown without irrigation, such as pigeon pea, black gram, lentils, and chickpea, can all be cultivated without needing water.
— Chanda
Yes, we do farming without water, chickpeas, Siawi jowar
— Kachala Choudhary
Yes, they grow other crops with zero irrigation. Here, for example, horse gram, ragi, kodo millet, black gram, kodo millet.
— Birohin · Mohla, Mohla-Manpur-Ambagarh Chowki, Chhattisgarh
We are tribal people. We do our own farming. We have been farming without water. We grow chickpeas, moong, kulthi, and black gram.
— Parikshit Majhi
We can grow crops without irrigation like Ragi, Masoor, and Horse Gram. Millet.
— arun raja · Kon, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We cultivate pulses and oilseeds without irrigation. In years with good rainfall, these crops thrive.
— Upendra Kumar Mahananda
We can grow other crops like chickpeas, lentils, khesari, peas, and linseed without water or irrigation.
— arun raja · Ormaura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
In our region, zero irrigation crops are sown, mainly pulses and oilseeds, and we practice traditional farming and conserve pulse seeds.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
After paddy cultivation, we cultivate green gram with zero irrigation, using traditional methods and without adding any chemical fertilizers or pesticides.
— Sastensh khura · Khatiguda, Nabarangapur, Odisha
After the Kharif paddy harvest, we cultivate moong without irrigation as a Rabi crop.
— MUKTA THAKUR · Kokasara, Kalahandi, Odisha
Cultivates a second crop of black gram with zero irrigation.
— Paradeshi Mirdha · Rengali, Sambalpur, Odisha
Yes, we cultivate without water, such as hardy crops. These include Moong, Urad, and Mustard.
— Ulapi Sahu · Balangir, Odisha
We cultivate horse gram after the rain, which grows in winter dew. It does not require water.
— Upendra Kumar Mahananda
Yes, we cultivate crops without water, in which we grow chickpeas.
— Kachala Choudhary
We cultivate moong, horse gram, black gram, and mustard without water. We call it Nipania cultivation in Sambalpuri.
— Upendra Kumar Mahananda
Mustard and pigeon pea cultivation can be done without water.
— Chanda
They also cultivate oilseeds, which is a second crop with zero irrigation.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
We cultivate mung bean, urad bean, chickpea, lentil, moong, etc., without water, and we are still doing it.
— Naukeshi Sahu
In our region, zero irrigation crops include pulses such as pigeon pea, fish bean (machea), khesari, horse gram, and black gram.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
