Dryland Farming Techniques

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

— Chanda

Crops that are grown without irrigation, such as pigeon pea, black gram, lentils, and chickpea, can all be cultivated without needing water.

— Chanda

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

— Parsuram Sa · Sundargarh, Odisha

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

— arun raja · Kon, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

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

— Vijay Kumar bhardwaj

Crops like horse gram and mustard are cultivated without irrigation as they do not require much water.

— Upendra Kumar Mahananda

Mustard and pigeon pea cultivation can be done without water.

— Chanda

Crops that can be grown without water, such as pumpkin, bottle gourd, squash, and drumstick, can all be cultivated without irrigation.

— Chanda

Millet can be cultivated without water, and pigeon pea and black gram also do not require much water, yet they grow well.

— Ram Kumari · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

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

— Ulapi Sahu · Balangir, Odisha

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

— Kamleah Kumar · Ormaura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Cultivation of moong or urad is possible without water.

— Chanda

We cultivate horse gram, green gram, black gram, and chickpea, for which we do not arrange irrigation.

— Upendra Kumar Mahananda

Pigeon pea and groundnut can be grown without irrigation.

— 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

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

In our area, crops that require zero irrigation, such as pulses and oilseeds, are cultivated.

— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand

Bottle gourd, pumpkin, and beans also grow without water.

— Puspanjali Nag

Bottle gourd, pumpkin, and beans also grow without water.

— Puspanjali Nag

Pulses grown without irrigation: Horse gram and Niger seed.

— Chanda · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

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

We farm with less irrigation. Batari peas, horse gram, and pigeon pea are also grown.

— Kamleah Kumar · Kota, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

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

In our region, zero-irrigation crops of pulses and oilseeds are cultivated, which include pigeon pea, lentil, etc.

— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand

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

— Sonmati · 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

Unirrigated sesame, mung bean, peanut

— Chanda · Dharura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Yes. How should I put it? Barnyard millet grows without water. And Kodo millet also grows without water. Pigeon pea and black gram.

— Ram Kumari · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

We cultivate moong, horse gram, black gram, and mustard without water. We call it Nipania cultivation in Sambalpuri.

— Upendra Kumar Mahananda

Mung bean, almond, and urad bean are zero-irrigation crops.

— Chanda · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

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

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

In our region, especially minimal-input, zero-irrigation crops like pigeon pea, black gram, red lentil, etc., are cultivated.

— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand

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

— Laxmanlal

Before, we used to cultivate crops without water: bajra, maize, kodo, mezhri, and arhar (pigeon pea).

— Kamleah Kumar · Ormaura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

We cultivate a second crop without water or irrigation, using green gram, black gram, and horse gram. We don't use pesticides or chemical fertilizers. We grow them very well from seeds, resulting in good produce for eating.

— Parikshit Majhi

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