Ancient Farming Methods

In ancient times, what kind of methods did your people use for farming? So, they farmed with plows and used oxen for farming.

— Rajesh Mallik · Boudh, Odisha

Our ancestors used to farm with plows.

— Batakrushna Sahoo

In ancient times, what method did your people use for farming? The answer is, they used to farm by using manure with a plow.

— Niranjan Lauria · Boudh, Odisha

In earlier times, what method did people use for farming? The answer is, they used to farm by applying fertilizer with a plough.

— Niranjan Lauria · Boudh, Odisha

In ancient times, which farming methods did your people use? They farm by holding the plow and applying manure.

— Niranjan Bisi · Boudh, Odisha

In ancient times, we used to cultivate with ploughs. We used to cultivate black gram, horse gram, green gram, paddy, etc.

— RINA BEHERA · Sundargarh, Odisha

Even today, we farm with a plough and oxen and earn our livelihood. Since ancient times, our ancestors have ploughed fields with a plough and oxen, and sow only the seeds preserved at home, such as kurthi, sawa, medo, and mijhri.

— Ram Kumari

What old farming methods did your ancestors follow? When they plowed, they used cow dung and urine as fertilizer.

— Rajesh Mallik · Boudh, Odisha

Our ancestors generally followed traditional farming methods using cow dung manure.

— Jogeshwar Naik · Kalahandi, Odisha

What old soil cultivation methods did your ancestors follow? They used old wooden plows. First, they applied cow dung manure, then they used cow dung water, hoping for good results.

— Niranjan Lauria · Boudh, Odisha

Before, we all used to farm with plows and oxen, and we also threshed paddy with them. Even for irrigation, we used oxen via a Persian wheel.

— Ram Kumari · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

We farm using the old method.

— Amar Lal Dhurwey · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

Our ancestors used to farm with plows and bullocks. But nowadays, all those things are disappearing.

— NAGRIK VIKASH SANGATHAN · Kalahandi, Odisha

Sawa, Medo, Mijhri are our traditional crops, which our ancestors used to cultivate by plowing with bullocks and a plough. They consumed these crops throughout the year and saved seeds in their homes for the next year's sowing. We still practice farming today.

— Ram Kumari · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

In our village, earlier, people used to cultivate fields with ploughs and oxen and worked very hard. At that time, they would sow Kodo, Sawa, Medo, and Mizri, and grow them without fertilizer. They used to sustain themselves with that, from which individuals...

— Ram Kumari · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

In the past, farming was done with plows made of wood, but nowadays machines are being used.

— Amar Lal Dhurwey · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

Old people used to do mixed farming, they used cow dung manure.

— Kachala Choudhary

Our ancestors used soil cultivation methods, farming with cow dung manure. They also used goat droppings as manure for cultivation.

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Traditional agriculture

— KRUSHNA KHILLO · Semiliguda, Koraput, Odisha

Our ancestors used to follow cow dung manure and clay soil farming methods and found them profitable.

— Premsila Naik · Kalahandi, Odisha

From the time of our ancestors, they used to cultivate with a plow. Immediately after paddy cultivation, they would grow mustard, groundnuts, horse gram, black gram, and green gram. Our subsequent generations have forgotten this practice.

— RINA BEHERA · Sundargarh, Odisha

Earlier, you all used to farm, and you cultivated using fertilizer.

— Niranjan Lauria · Boudh, Odisha

In our home, we do farming using a plow and oxen. We cultivate the fields with them and also earn our livelihood through them. We farm all day; the plow operates, and by evening, it helps us sustain ourselves. This is how we carry out our agricultural work.

— Ram Kumari

Our plows and bullocks till the fields, we sow millet, maize, make furrows, and plant small seeds, and also save seeds for the next year. This is a legacy from our ancestors, which we still have today and which we utilize.

— Ram Kumari · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Our fathers and grandfathers used to cultivate traditional crops earlier, fertilizing them with cow dung, and grew pulses like moong, urad, kulthi, along with millets such as ragi and bajra.

— Parikshit Majhi

Before, all of us tribals used to plow the fields with a plow and bullocks. We would sow medo mujri and also kurthi, which was very nutritious food. It was sown without fertilizer and would grow readily.

— Babulal Ayam · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

In their olden times, marriages and farming took place. Farming was recently done with bullocks, and corn was cultivated in farming.

— bachcha lal · Shahganj, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

We farm using traditional methods.

— Sunil oraon · Bero, Ranchi, Jharkhand

We used to farm using cow dung and goat manure; this was the fertilizer for the crops, and all crops like Kodo, Menjhari, Barley, and Saawa were grown with this agricultural fertilizer.

— Kamleah Kumar · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Do you save your local seeds? What old soil farming methods did people in earlier times follow? How did people farm in the past?

— Santosh Pradhan

We are a tribal community, we farm using ploughs and bullocks, and we sustain our lives. We clear forests and bushes to make fields, and we cultivate sawa, medo, mijhri, and maize, which were grown by our ancestors, and we also preserve their seeds.

— Ram Kumari · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Farming

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

We sow with great effort without irrigation, and cultivate crops by plowing with oxen and a plow. We save seeds for many years, which come in handy.

— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

From the very beginning, we cultivate a second crop without irrigation using old methods and traditional seeds. The method of storing these seeds is also traditional, and our fields are ploughed using bullocks.

— Rupesh Maravi · Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh

Yes, we do our own farming, and we plough and cultivate with gold, which makes our yield very good. It becomes very good. What all used to happen before?

— Rakesh kumar Kumar

My ancestors used to emphasize farming using organic methods.

— Madan Hantal · Pujariguda, Malkangiri, Odisha

Traditional agriculture and heritage

— KRUSHNA KHILLO · Semiliguda, Koraput, Odisha

Previously, our ancestors used to farm with cow dung, and now urea and DAP have become common. The crops are growing well, but it's having a big impact on the body.

— Kamleah Kumar · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Earlier, we used to farm with plows and oxen. Today, it's the age of machines, and we farm using them. However, we often face economic problems, due to which we have to go to the city separately to earn a living.

— Ram Kumari · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

We cleared and tilled land in the forest to create our farms, and today we continue to cultivate that same land. Previously, we used to plough with bullocks and a plough, but now we also use tractors for tilling. Furthermore, pigeon pea (arhar) cultivation can be done without water.

— Ram Kumari · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh