A dimension within Agricultural Food Production
This theme explores innovative farming techniques like dry farming and low irrigation for sustainable crop production, focusing on pulses and oilseeds.
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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
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
In our region, zero-irrigation crops of pulses and oilseeds are cultivated, which include pigeon pea, lentil, etc.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
Crops that are grown without irrigation, such as pigeon pea, black gram, lentils, and chickpea, can all be cultivated without needing water.
— Chanda
You can grow chickpeas, corn, lentils, flaxseed, peas, peas without water.
— arun raja · Kon, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Crops that can be grown without water include sesame, masoor lentil, pea, mustard, and pigeon pea. All these can be obtained without water.
— Chanda
In our area, crops that require zero irrigation, such as pulses and oilseeds, are cultivated.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
Cultivate peas, chickpeas, and mustard, all of which require less water.
— Vinita Singh Yadav · Dharura, 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
Yes, we cultivate without water, such as hardy crops. These include Moong, Urad, and Mustard.
— 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
In zero irrigation farming, chickpea, Siyawe jowar, and Bhaadi kodo were sown.
— Kachala Choudhary
In our region, especially minimal-input, zero-irrigation crops like pigeon pea, black gram, red lentil, etc., are cultivated.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
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
We cultivate horse gram, green gram, black gram, and chickpea, for which we do not arrange irrigation.
— Upendra Kumar Mahananda
Crops like horse gram and mustard are cultivated without irrigation as they do not require much water.
— Upendra Kumar Mahananda
Yes, we can do dryland farming for crops like chickpeas, mustard, etc.
— Laxmanlal
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
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 like oilseeds and pulses are grown.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
In our region, zero irrigation crops are cultivated, mainly pulses and oilseeds.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
Black gram, green gram, mustard, horse gram will grow without water.
— Parsuram Sa · Sundargarh, 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
Mustard and pigeon pea cultivation can be done without water.
— Chanda
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
Pulses grown without irrigation: Horse gram and Niger seed.
— Chanda · 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
Yes, we cultivate crops without water, in which we grow chickpeas.
— Kachala Choudhary
Cultivation of chickpea, pea, mustard
— 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
They grow flaxseed, sesame, niger seed, bottle gourd, pigeon pea, and beans without water.
— Kamleah Kumar · Ormaura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
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
These days, they are sowing barley, peas, chickpeas, and wheat. Barley grows with one or two irrigations. Waterless farming is pigeon pea cultivation, which does not require water; it is sown in the rainy season and harvested in April-May.
— Ram Kumari · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Mung bean, almond, and urad bean are zero-irrigation crops.
— Chanda · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Pigeon pea and groundnut can be grown without irrigation.
— Chanda
We can easily cultivate mustard or arhar and maize with less water.
— Sonmati · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
They cultivate chickpeas, mustard, and peas.
— Vinita Singh Yadav · Mukasim, 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
