Drought-Resistant Crops

Chickpeas, linseed, sesame, and mustard do not require much water. We can keep them safe for a long time.

— Chanda · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Yes, mustard, chickpea, linseed, and masoor can be grown in water and can be stored for a long time.

— Chanda · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Chickpeas, peas, flaxseeds, and lentils are long-lasting; you can safely store them in your home.

— Chanda · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

CTC and mustard do not require much water and can be stored for a long time.

— Chanda

You can grow chickpeas, corn, lentils, flaxseed, peas, peas without water.

— arun raja · Kon, 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 keep seeds of mustard, green gram, horse gram, tuber crops, black gram, and taro for cultivation without water.

— Puspanjali Nag

We can grow this TC TC lentil chilli without water and store it for a long time.

— Chanda · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Black gram, green gram, mustard, horse gram will grow without water.

— Parsuram Sa · Sundargarh, Odisha

Crops that can be grown without water include sesame, masoor lentil, pea, mustard, and pigeon pea. All these can be obtained without water.

— Chanda

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

Crops that grow without water include Tura, peas, chickpeas, Sahir, mustard, and peas.

— Vijay Kumar bhardwaj

Peas and chickpea seeds are kept

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

They keep chickpea and lentil seeds.

— Vinita Singh Yadav · Dharura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

They store chickpea seeds.

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

TC and Rahar can be cultivated without water and can also be stored for a few days. Yes.

— Chanda

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 stored the chickpea seeds carefully so that we can cultivate next year.

— Sunita Kumari

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 cultivate without water, such as hardy crops. These include Moong, Urad, and Mustard.

— Ulapi Sahu · Balangir, Odisha

Yes, we conserve zero-irrigation crops such as wood, grass pea, pea, lentil, and mustard.

— Vijay Kumar bhardwaj · Kasdol, Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh

Yes, we can do dryland farming for crops like chickpeas, mustard, etc.

— Laxmanlal

Barley can be cultivated with less water, and 'Batūri' (Bathua) is also cultivated. It is used in lentils, and we store it to eat for a long time. This practice has been passed down from our ancestors. Its seeds are also preserved to be sown next year.

— Ram Kumari · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Cultivate peas, chickpeas, and mustard, all of which require less water.

— Vinita Singh Yadav · Dharura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

We cultivate mung bean, urad bean, chickpea, lentil, moong, etc., without water, and we are still doing it.

— Naukeshi Sahu

We carefully keep the chickpea seeds so that we can cultivate next year.

— Sunita Kumari

In the second crop, chickpea, moong dal, masoor dal, and arhar dal seeds are also conserved.

— Jagannath Baraik · Lapung, Ranchi, Jharkhand

Some seeds only grow with rainwater. Just by sowing the seeds, they grow and provide food throughout the year. All these seeds have been preserved by our ancestors.

— Anirudha Marai

We can grow crops without irrigation like Ragi, Masoor, and Horse Gram. Millet.

— arun raja · Kon, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

If some crops can be cultivated with minimal or no irrigation in my region, then we are storing moong seeds, which will be available in irrigated areas.

— Santosh Barik · Kalahandi, Odisha

We can easily cultivate mustard or arhar and maize with less water.

— Sonmati · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Chickpea, pea, mustard

— अमर जीत · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

They grow flaxseed, sesame, niger seed, bottle gourd, pigeon pea, and beans without water.

— Kamleah Kumar · Ormaura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

And we will sow a lot of mustard and we will keep it for a long time.

— Chanda · Baghauri, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Chickpea, peas, mustard, horse gram

— अमर जीत · Kon, 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

Pigeon pea and baturi grow without irrigation if sown. Barley also grows, which they keep for sowing as seeds for the next year.

— Ram Kumari · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Chickpea and pea are the most valuable seeds of pulses, which can be grown even with less water and also provide protein. That's correct, no problem.

— Vinita Singh Yadav · Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh

Just as we safely kept our seeds in the past, in the coming days, we will also beautifully manage chickpeas, moong, and pigeon pea.

— RUDRA PRASAD BAG · Mahulpāra, Nuapada, Odisha

In our region, even without rain, we cultivate crops like moong, urad, and horse gram. We also preserve their seeds by mixing them with neem leaves.

— Kunakanta Behera · Dashapalla, Nayagarh, Odisha