A dimension within Drought-Resilient Crops
Discusses challenges and strategies related to water scarcity and drought in crop farming.
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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.
How will crops, masoor, and arhar grow without irrigation?
— Chanda
Lentil and pigeon pea crops dry up without water.
— Chanda
Unirrigated sesame, mung bean, peanut
— Chanda · Dharura, 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
Crops that can be grown without water include sesame, masoor lentil, pea, mustard, and pigeon pea. All these can be obtained without water.
— Chanda
Which crop is lentil and horse gram without water, or is horse gram grown with water?
— arun raja · Kon, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We can grow crops without irrigation like Ragi, Masoor, and Horse Gram. Millet.
— arun raja · Kon, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Pulses grown without irrigation: Horse gram and Niger seed.
— Chanda · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Crops that grow without water include Tura, peas, chickpeas, Sahir, mustard, and peas.
— Vijay Kumar bhardwaj
We can grow other crops like chickpeas, lentils, khesari, peas, and linseed without water or irrigation.
— arun raja · Ormaura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Mustard and pigeon pea cultivation can be done without water.
— Chanda
Black gram, green gram, mustard, horse gram will grow without water.
— Parsuram Sa · Sundargarh, Odisha
Cultivation of moong or urad is possible without water.
— Chanda
The millets have run out of water
— Chanda
Pigeon pea and groundnut can be grown without irrigation.
— Chanda
Crops like horse gram and mustard are cultivated without irrigation as they do not require much water.
— Upendra Kumar Mahananda
Crops are not grown because plants need water to stay alive. Zero irrigation would mean that you
— Maya kumari Damor
In micro-irrigation, which crop is jowar, chickpea, 'Agri' without water?
— Jeevan Kumar
You can grow chickpeas, corn, lentils, flaxseed, peas, peas without water.
— arun raja · Kon, 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 horse gram, green gram, black gram, and chickpea, for which we do not arrange irrigation.
— Upendra Kumar Mahananda
Before, we used to cultivate crops without water: bajra, maize, kodo, mezhri, and arhar (pigeon pea).
— Kamleah Kumar · Ormaura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
They grow flaxseed, sesame, niger seed, bottle gourd, pigeon pea, and beans without water.
— Kamleah Kumar · Ormaura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Masoor without irrigation gets frost.
— arun raja · Kon, 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
In our region, zero-irrigation crops of pulses and oilseeds are cultivated, which include pigeon pea, lentil, etc.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
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
They do farming without water, but now it has decreased, it doesn't ripen.
— Kachala Choudhary
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
Chickpeas are grown without water.
— Kachala Choudhary
Horse gram and tea are crops grown without irrigation.
— arun raja · Kon, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
In zero irrigation farming, chickpea, Siyawe jowar, and Bhaadi kodo were sown.
— Kachala Choudhary
Turmeric and almond are crops that grow without water.
— Chanda
What crop is cultivated with zero irrigation, like 'Yura Agari' chickpea, without water?
— Vijay Kumar bhardwaj · Kasdol, Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh
Farming is done without irrigation, but in years with low rainfall, there is no good harvest and the seeds also do not ripen.
— Upendra Kumar Mahananda
In our region, zero irrigation crops like oilseeds and pulses are grown.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
On our side, there are only un-irrigated fields, and the chickpeas and lentils (from them) also need to be kept safe, as they will be useful in the future.
— bachcha lal · Shahganj, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Chickpea and dryland sorghum are cultivated as rain-fed crops.
— Surajsingh Parmar · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
In our area, crops that require zero irrigation, such as pulses and oilseeds, are cultivated.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
We grow pulse crops in zero water and
— Anangaprabha Bhoi · Bangomunda, Balangir, Odisha
