Cultivating Pulse Crops

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

We have cultivated green gram this year. We will save the seeds and cultivate again next year.

— Gitanjali Bhoi

I will cultivate and grow pulse seeds that can be used for consumption, and some can be saved for next year's crop.

— Pushpalata Surtange · Tilda Neora, Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh

We have cultivated moong and urad this rainy season. We will keep the seeds and cultivate again next rainy season.

— Gitanjali Bhoi

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

Well, I cultivated black gram and chickpeas this year. I will save the seeds and cultivate them next year as well.

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

We will cultivate pulses, which we will include in our nutritional diet, and save a small amount for storage for the next crop.

— Pushpalata Surtange · Tilda Neora, Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh

By cultivating pulses, we will use them so that we can eat the pulses and save a small amount for the next crop.

— Pushpalata Surtange · Simga, Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh

We have cultivated mung beans this year. Next year, we will cultivate them using saved seeds.

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

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

Cultivate pulse varieties and save them for the next year, and then cultivate again using traditional methods.

— Anupama Mahanand · Sundargarh, Odisha

We will save these lentils and chickpeas to use as seeds for next year's farming.

— 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 save the chickpeas so that we can cultivate them next year.

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

I will cultivate chickpeas, save them, and also keep some for next year's cultivation.

— Anupama Mahanand

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

— Sunita Kumari

By cultivating pulses, I will save for the next year and then cultivate again in the traditional way.

— Anupama Mahanand

We will cultivate a second crop, preserve the seeds, and cultivate for the upcoming year as well.

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

We cultivate pulse crops, which we keep for our own consumption, sell in the market, and also save for seeds.

— Pushpalata Surtange · Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh

By cultivating pulses, I will use them for eating and save a little for next year's crop.

— Pushpalata Surtange · Tilda Neora, Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh

This year, we will cultivate green gram, black gram, and chickpea, save the seeds, and cultivate them again next year. It will come in three months, in three months it has been given, it's a unique crop.

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha

We conserve pea seeds so that we can cultivate next year.

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

We will cultivate pulse crops, specifically batri and lakhri, so that we can use them as food in our daily lives, and the remaining seeds...

— Pushpalata Surtange · Bemetara, Chhattisgarh

I will cultivate varieties of pulses and will get them again next year, collect and store them, and then process them traditionally.

— Anupama Mahanand · Subdega, Sundargarh, Odisha

By cultivating green gram, I will keep this year's green gram for next year and cultivate again.

— Anupama Mahanand · Sundargarh, Odisha

I have cultivated moong and black gram and kept the seeds. I will cultivate again in the rainy season.

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

Here, we cultivate paddy, sawa, medon, and mijhri. We store sawa, medon, and mijhri at home for sowing in the next year. Additionally, among pulses, we have kurthi and baturi, which we also store and sow the following year.

— Ram Kumari · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

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

— Sunita Kumari

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

They cultivate lentils and save its seeds for the next crop.

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

I will cultivate and store black gram this year, and I will also save some for next year. I will cultivate again.

— Anupama Mahanand

I will cultivate green gram, save some for next year as well, and then cultivate again.

— Anupama Mahanand · Sundargarh, Odisha

Previously, we used to cultivate all crops like moong, urad, and kulthi, and we want to continue doing so in the future.

— Jyoti Senapati