Dryland Farming Practices

Yes, we grow other crops and also preserve seeds like black gram, pigeon pea, and green gram.

— Jagannath Baraik · Ranchi, Jharkhand

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

With low irrigation, we cultivate pearl millet, maize, kodo millet, Mejhri, barnyard millet, horse gram, and field peas.

— Kamleah Kumar · Ormaura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

For the second crop, we also cultivate horse gram, black gram, pigeon pea, and chickpea.

— Jagannath Baraik · Ranchi, Jharkhand

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

— Kamleah Kumar · Kota, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

This year, we have cultivated green gram, black gram, and chickpeas. We will save the seeds to cultivate them again next year.

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha

During the Kharif season, we cultivate maize, paddy, kodo kutki, jowar, soybean, and black gram here.

— Kekti Tekam

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

In our region, rain-fed crops like black gram, green gram, oilseeds, etc., are grown, which need protection.

— bachcha lal · Shahganj, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

After harvesting paddy, we are going to cultivate mustard, horse gram, black gram, etc.

— Parsuram Sa · Hemagiri, Sundargarh, Odisha

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

— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand

After harvesting paddy, we cultivate lentil, gram, and wheat here.

— Kekti Tekam

We cultivated rainfed crops like pigeon pea, mung bean, and black gram, and will continue to cultivate and preserve them for the future.

— bachcha lal · Shahganj, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

After harvesting the paddy, we cultivate crops like moong, urad, chana, and masoor in that field without irrigation. We save these for our home. We then prepare the soil there for further cultivation.

— swornalata nayak · Patnāgarh, Balangir, Odisha

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 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

And our local seeds are paddy, jowar, and among pulses there is tur, and groundnut, so we rely on our local seeds.

— Kachala Choudhary · Alirajpur, Madhya 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

We cultivate seeds such as chickpea, lentil, mustard, and horse gram using traditional, possibly rain-fed, farming methods. We preserve these seeds and cultivate them using this traditional agricultural practice.

— Laxmi Sahu

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

Yes, we practice zero-irrigation farming and also conserve seeds. For example, horse gram, Kodo millet, little millet, finger millet, and black gram are zero-irrigation crops.

— Sukhdas Mandavi · Mohla, Mohla-Manpur-Ambagarh Chowki, Chhattisgarh

In rain-fed land, we cultivate horse gram and green gram, and we store their seeds safely by using neem and karanja leaves.

— Sita Behera · Dashapalla, Nayagarh, Odisha

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

— Gitanjali Bhoi

In rural areas, black gram, chickpea, and pigeon pea crops are grown.

— Jagannath Baraik · Lapung, Ranchi, Jharkhand

Finger millet, black gram, green gram, etc.

— Abhimaneu Sabar

Cultivation of the second crop is done in our region, which includes urad, masoor, chana, and arhar pulses.

— Jagannath Baraik · Lapung, Ranchi, Jharkhand

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

— Upendra Kumar Mahananda

We save and sow our traditional seeds. Such as chickpea, sorghum, Bhadi, pearl millet, etc.

— Vijay kanesh · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

Prabhasini Batakar, we are cultivating a second crop in our villages. We are growing moong, black gram, and pigeon pea together as dry crops.

— Prabhasini Batkar · Tumudibandh, Kandhamal, Odisha

We do traditional farming. We save rain-fed seeds and cultivate crops like sorghum and chickpea.

— Vijay kanesh · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

If you ask about cultivating a second crop in our region, we cultivate mustard, horse gram, and junga. We will save these seeds for next year's crop.

— Parsuram Sa · Sundargarh, Odisha

We will cultivate mustard, green gram, and other crops, store their seeds, and cultivate them again next year.

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha