A dimension within Tribal Farming & Water
Sharing knowledge on drought-tolerant crops and water-saving techniques for vegetables.
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Our tribal community shares how to cultivate vital crops like chickpeas, corn, and lentils, even in dry conditions without relying on irrigation.
Facing the prospect of future water scarcity, our community relies on cultivating traditional zero-irrigation crops to secure food and conserve precious resources.
After the main harvest, we harness the land's natural moisture to cultivate a vital second crop, ensuring food and oil for our families.
Even without irrigation, our traditional seeds and old farming methods ensure our crops ripen, providing food for our homes.
Crops that can be grown without water include sesame, masoor lentil, pea, mustard, and pigeon pea. All these can be obtained without water.
— Chanda
Black gram, green gram, mustard, horse gram will grow without water.
— Parsuram Sa · Sundargarh, Odisha
They grow flaxseed, sesame, niger seed, bottle gourd, pigeon pea, and beans without water.
— Kamleah Kumar · Ormaura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Crops that can be grown without water, such as pumpkin, bottle gourd, squash, and drumstick, can all be cultivated without irrigation.
— Chanda
Cultivation of moong or urad is possible without water.
— Chanda
You can grow chickpeas, corn, lentils, flaxseed, peas, peas without water.
— arun raja · Kon, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Crops that grow without water include Tura, peas, chickpeas, Sahir, mustard, and peas.
— Vijay Kumar bhardwaj
Mustard and pigeon pea cultivation can be done without water.
— Chanda
Bottle gourd, pumpkin, and beans also grow without water.
— Puspanjali Nag
Bottle gourd, pumpkin, and beans also grow without water.
— Puspanjali Nag
Crops that are grown without irrigation, such as pigeon pea, black gram, lentils, and chickpea, can all be cultivated without needing water.
— Chanda
Crops like horse gram and mustard are cultivated without irrigation as they do not require much water.
— Upendra Kumar Mahananda
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
We can grow crops without irrigation like Ragi, Masoor, and Horse Gram. Millet.
— 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
Jackfruit, Kathar, bottle gourd, pumpkin, and banana are grown without water.
— Kamleah Kumar · Kachnarwa, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Pigeon pea and groundnut can be grown without irrigation.
— Chanda
Yes, we cultivate without water, such as hardy crops. These include Moong, Urad, and Mustard.
— Ulapi Sahu · Balangir, Odisha
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
Turmeric and almond are crops that grow without water.
— Chanda
Even sorghum can be cultivated without water.
— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya 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
Finger millet, Kodo millet, and Barnyard millet are produced without water.
— Chanda
Unirrigated sesame, mung bean, peanut
— Chanda · Dharura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Pulses grown without irrigation: Horse gram and Niger seed.
— Chanda · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Sorghum can also be cultivated without water.
— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
Chickpeas are grown without water.
— Kachala Choudhary
Taro and elephant foot yam can grow without water.
— Chanda
You can cultivate yam without water.
— Chanda
Mung bean, almond, and urad bean are zero-irrigation crops.
— Chanda · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
In our area, crops that require zero irrigation, such as pulses and oilseeds, are cultivated.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
Just like barley and Jinora are crops that grow without water.
— arun raja · Kon, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We cultivate horse gram, green gram, black gram, and chickpea, for which we do not arrange irrigation.
— Upendra Kumar Mahananda
Tivra, Urad, Raher, or all these crops are grown without water. These are being utilized. Immortal Chhattisgarh.
— RAJNIKANT RATNAKAR · Kharod, Janjgir-Champa, Chhattisgarh
Vegetables that grow with less water are jackfruit, sem beans, bottle gourd, pumpkin, papaya.
— Kamleah Kumar · Kachnarwa, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Kodo millet, Sanwa millet, pearl millet, and maize are grown with less water.
— Kamleah Kumar · Ormaura, 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
Farming without water is possible with Sama and Kodo.
— Chanda
We cultivate moong, horse gram, black gram, and mustard without water. We call it Nipania cultivation in Sambalpuri.
— Upendra Kumar Mahananda
Bottle gourd, pumpkin, flat beans, jackfruit, papaya - all these vegetables require less water.
— Kamleah Kumar · Kota, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
