A dimension within Drought-Resilient Pulses
Explores agricultural practices for farming crops in dry environments, emphasizing drought resistance and cultivation techniques.
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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.
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.
Crops like horse gram and mustard are cultivated without irrigation as they do not require much water.
— Upendra Kumar Mahananda
Cultivation of moong or urad is possible without water.
— Chanda
Mustard and pigeon pea cultivation can be done without water.
— Chanda
Crops that are grown without irrigation, such as pigeon pea, black gram, lentils, and chickpea, can all be cultivated without needing water.
— Chanda
Black gram, green gram, mustard, horse gram will grow without water.
— Parsuram Sa · Sundargarh, Odisha
Crops that can be grown without water, such as pumpkin, bottle gourd, squash, and drumstick, can all be cultivated without irrigation.
— 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
Pigeon pea and groundnut can be grown without irrigation.
— Chanda
They grow flaxseed, sesame, niger seed, bottle gourd, pigeon pea, and beans without water.
— Kamleah Kumar · Ormaura, 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
We cultivate horse gram, green gram, black gram, and chickpea, for which we do not arrange irrigation.
— Upendra Kumar Mahananda
Unirrigated sesame, mung bean, peanut
— Chanda · Dharura, 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
Crops that grow without water include Tura, peas, chickpeas, Sahir, mustard, and peas.
— Vijay Kumar bhardwaj
They cultivate pulses using zero irrigation.
— Sunil oraon · Bero, Ranchi, Jharkhand
You can grow chickpeas, corn, lentils, flaxseed, peas, peas without water.
— arun raja · Kon, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Bottle gourd, pumpkin, and beans also grow without water.
— Puspanjali Nag
Bottle gourd, pumpkin, and beans also grow without water.
— Puspanjali Nag
Mung bean cultivation is done without irrigation.
— SUKDEV HEMBRAM · Patamda, East Singhbhum, Jharkhand
Horse gram and tea are crops grown without irrigation.
— arun raja · Kon, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
In our area, crops that require zero irrigation, such as pulses and oilseeds, are cultivated.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
Rabi crop is cultivated with almost 0 irrigation.
— Sunita Kumari
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
Chickpeas are grown without water.
— Kachala Choudhary
Even sorghum can be cultivated without water.
— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
Turmeric and almond are crops that grow without water.
— Chanda
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
Yes, we cultivate without water, such as hardy crops. These include Moong, Urad, and Mustard.
— Ulapi Sahu · Balangir, Odisha
Sorghum can also be cultivated without water.
— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
What crop is cultivated with zero irrigation, like 'Yura Agari' chickpea, without water?
— Vijay Kumar bhardwaj · Kasdol, Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh
In our region, zero irrigation crops like oilseeds and pulses are grown.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
Irrigation in horsegram cultivation is zero.
— SUKDEV HEMBRAM
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
Jackfruit, Kathar, bottle gourd, pumpkin, and banana are grown without water.
— Kamleah Kumar · Kachnarwa, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Rabi crops are almost entirely cultivated with zero irrigation.
— Sunita Kumari
Finger millet, Kodo millet, and Barnyard millet are produced without water.
— Chanda
It is a type of oilseed that grows with zero irrigation.
— SUKDEV HEMBRAM · East Singhbhum, Jharkhand
Mung bean, almond, and urad bean are zero-irrigation crops.
— Chanda · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
They cultivate horse gram pulses through unirrigated farming.
— SUKDEV HEMBRAM
