Farming Leguminous Crops

We keep green gram, black gram, and horse gram seeds, and cultivate them in the second crop.

— Puspanjali Nag

In rural areas, chickpeas, pigeon pea, and lentils are cultivated as a second crop. Their seeds are also preserved.

— Jagannath Baraik · Lapung, Ranchi, Jharkhand

For the second crop, we cultivate seeds such as moong, urad, and arhar. We save those seeds to cultivate them again the following year.

— RINA BEHERA · Hemagiri, Sundargarh, Odisha

For the second crop in rural areas, chickpea, moong, lentil, and pigeon pea are cultivated, and their seeds are conserved.

— Jagannath Baraik · Lapung, Ranchi, Jharkhand

In the second crop, in rural areas, crops such as chickpeas, lentils from Surat, and pigeon peas are cultivated. Their seeds are also preserved.

— Jagannath Baraik · Lapung, Ranchi, Jharkhand

In the second crop, chickpea, moong dal, masoor dal, and arhar dal seeds are also conserved.

— Jagannath Baraik · Lapung, Ranchi, Jharkhand

In the second crop, masoor dal and arhar dal seeds are also preserved.

— Jagannath Baraik · Lapung, Ranchi, Jharkhand

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

— Jagannath Baraik · Ranchi, Jharkhand

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

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 are cultivating moong and urad beans. We have kept seeds and will cultivate again next year.

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

After the paddy crop, they plant the Tīvra lentil crop, and they also preserve the pulse crop and seeds.

— vijay malhotra · Behla, Janjgir-Champa, Chhattisgarh

We do farming. We save some seeds beforehand and then cultivate. This way, we get many crops, including green gram, black gram, and pigeon pea.

— Ulapi Sahu · Balangir, Odisha

There, we cultivate a second crop, Kulthi beans (junga type). The seeds are saved throughout the year, and the same crop is cultivated the following year.

— Parsuram Sa · Sundargarh, Odisha

They keep chickpea and lentil seeds.

— Vinita Singh Yadav · Dharura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Yes, we are cultivating a second crop. We are growing lentils, moong, kalath, and their seeds are also in their traditional way.

— Trinath badanayak · Malakanagiri, Malkangiri, Odisha

We are cultivating a second crop. In our second crop, we are farming by saving seeds of chickpeas, lentils, and mustard, and applying manure using our traditional farming methods.

— Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha

We cultivate a second crop and safely store our own mung bean seeds.

— Anangaprabha Bhoi · Bangomunda, Balangir, Odisha

We cultivated moong and urad dal this year and saved the seeds to cultivate again next year.

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

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

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

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

They cultivate lentils and save its seeds for the next crop.

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

I am interested in cultivating a second crop. And we have stored pulse seeds. Moong seeds, moong, black gram, etc.

— Sushil Nanda · Balāngīr, Balangir, Odisha

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

— Gitanjali Bhoi

We will cultivate mustard, moong, and other crops, save the seeds, and cultivate them again next year.

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

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

— Jagannath Baraik · Ranchi, Jharkhand

We will save these lentils and chickpeas to use as seeds for next year's farming.

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

We carefully keep the chickpea seeds so that we can cultivate next year.

— Sunita Kumari

I cultivate green gram and mustard as a second crop, and I collect these seeds to sow them again next year.

— Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha

I cultivate green gram and mustard as a second crop, and I collect these seeds to sow them again next year.

— Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha

I cultivate green gram and mustard as a second crop, and I collect these seeds to sow them again next year.

— Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha

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

— Vijay kanesh · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

We grow pulse crops, keep them for our daily consumption, and save a small amount of the remaining seeds for the next crop.

— Pushpalata Surtange · Bemetara, Chhattisgarh

To cultivate chickpeas and preserve seeds.

— Sunita Kumari · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

We will cultivate green gram and black gram this year and save the seeds for cultivation next year.

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

I have cultivated moong and black gram and kept the seeds. I will cultivate again in the rainy season.

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

This year, we will cultivate moong, urad, and gram, save the seeds, and cultivate those same seeds again next year.

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha

Peas and chickpea seeds are kept

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

We stored the chickpea seeds carefully so that we can cultivate next year.

— Sunita Kumari

We cultivate green gram as a second crop every year and keep it as seeds. We cultivate it every year because we incorporate it into the soil after paddy cultivation.

— Sastensh khura · Khatiguda, Nabarangapur, Odisha