A dimension within Soil Health & Farming
This theme compares traditional and modern farming, focusing on the role of machinery, technology, capital, and land use.
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Overall Community Sentiment
Future generations will forget the traditional farming methods. For example, if I have a plough and a plowshare, I will cultivate according to my time and will, and I don't need capital for that. If I don't have all these, then I will take the help of machinery, for which I will have to invest capital.
— Kumudini Chhanchan · Bhojpur, Sambalpur, Odisha
Future generations will forget the previous farming methods. For example, if I have a plow and a ploughshare, I will do it according to my time and will, and I don't need capital for this. If I don't have all these, then I will take the help of machinery, for which I will have to invest capital.
— DASHARATH SINGH
Future generations will forget the previous farming methods. For example, if I have a plow and a ploughshare, I will do it according to my time and will, and I don't need capital for this. If I don't have all these, then I will take the help of machinery, for which I will have to invest capital.
— Kumudini Chhanchan · Sambalpur, Odisha
Our ancestors used to farm with plows and bullocks. But nowadays, all those things are disappearing.
— NAGRIK VIKASH SANGATHAN · Kalahandi, Odisha
In the past, farming was done with plows made of wood, but nowadays machines are being used.
— Amar Lal Dhurwey · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
Future generations will forget the old farming methods. For example, I have a plow and a ploughshare, I will do it according to my time and will, I don't need capital for this. If I don't have all these, then I will take the help of machinery, which will require me to invest capital.
— Kumudini Chhanchan · Bhojpur, Sambalpur, Odisha
Now, old farming is not practiced.
— Kachala Choudhary
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
Traditional methods, the traditional methods of farming that were used before. All the earthworms would survive and loosen the soil. Now, when we plow with a tractor or our power tiller, the earthworms...
— KARUKAR MURMU · Gandhinagar, Rayagada, Odisha
In the past, even when cows and cattle lived for two hundred years, there were no roads, and traditional farming was practiced. Now, all those things are gone. Now, even farming has AC.
— Kusha Mahakud
Earlier, we used to keep seeds in earthen pots with neem leaves, but now those pots are not available. Their traditional profession is slowly coming to an end, and we are also forced to move towards modernity.
— Upendra Kumar Mahananda
Difficulty in obtaining organic food is due to modern food. Farming is no longer done with traditional ploughs because mechanical ploughs are used.
— Upendra Kumar Mahananda
Farming with ploughs is no longer seen in our village.
— Upendra Kumar Mahananda
Traditional agriculture
— Common Ground · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha
Traditional agriculture
— KRUSHNA KHILLO · Semiliguda, Koraput, Odisha
Future generations will be misguided. For instance, if I have a plow and farming tools, I will do it according to my time and will, and I won't need capital for it. If I don't have these, then I will take the help of machinery, in which I will have to invest capital. Just like that...
— Kumudini Chhanchan · Bhojpur, Sambalpur, Odisha
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
People of earlier times used to do this kind of farming for subsistence, and without water, without chemical fertilizers, and by eating that grain, there was also strength in the body. But nowadays, this urea and DAP fertilizer is causing a lot of harm.
— Kamleah Kumar · Kota, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We used to plant paddy according to the season in olden times. Now, due to lack of rain, we are cultivating cotton in the fields.
— Laba Kumar sabar · Bada Baridi, Rayagada, 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
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
We farm using the old method.
— Amar Lal Dhurwey · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
Traditional ways of carrying precious produce, whether on the head or by hand, are now being replaced as things are transported in vehicles. Earlier, they used to carry only millet with cows using traditional carrying poles. But let that tradition be preserved.
— Krushna Sisa · Khajuriguda, Malkangiri, Odisha
Zero-water farming used to be very common, but now it has reduced a bit.
— Kachala Choudhary
Earlier, when we practiced traditional farming, many earthworms used to fertilize our soil, and cultivation was good. Now, various types of fertilizers, pesticides, and poisons are being used by us.
— KARUKAR MURMU · Gandhinagar, Rayagada, Odisha
Producing through traditional agriculture, farming without fertilizer. Various types of fruits, medicinal plants and creepers etc. found in forests are no longer available.
— KAPAL MARNDI · Bissamcuttack, Rayagada, Odisha
When we used to do traditional farming, health was good. Now, by using chemical fertilizers, many changes are appearing in health. People are getting old quickly, in my observation.
— jitendra khila · kudumulugumma, Malkangiri, Odisha
Farming
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
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
Our ancestors used to farm with plows.
— Batakrushna Sahoo
Future generations will be misguided. For example, if I have a plough, I will do it according to my time and will, and I don't need capital for that. If I don't have these, then I will take the help of equipment where I will have to invest capital. Just like that......
— Puspanjali Nag
In the past, we used to eat various things from the hills, such as Kangu Jona Ganthia, and lived well because of them. Things that grew without fertilizer used to ripen quickly. Now, nothing is ripening from the hills, and they are not cultivating them anymore.
— Prakash ch Pradhani · Karubai, Rayagada, Odisha
They farm using plows pulled by oxen, practicing traditional farming where they sow and grow old varieties, and now they also sow some new hybrid varieties.
— Ram Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
It feels to me that in the coming times, farming remained very difficult, our work got a bit stalled, and now we can't do it as we understood previously.
— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
Yes, we practice zero-irrigation farming, but it has reduced a lot, it's not like before.
— Kachala Choudhary
We used to add organic fertilizer to our fields to maintain soil fertility, but today's youth are using chemical fertilizers, and diseases are increasing day by day.
— Amar Lal Dhurwey · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
We have to save our culture, otherwise our future generations will go astray. For example, I have a plow and a ploughshare; I will do it according to my time and wish, and I don't need capital for this. If I don't have all these, then I will take the help of machinery, in which I will have to invest capital. Exactly like that......
— Paradeshi Mirdha · Katarbaga, Sambalpur, Odisha
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
Future generations will be misguided. For example, if I have a plough and a plowshare, I will do it according to my time and will, for this I do not need capital. If I do not have all these, then I will take the help of equipment, for which I will have to invest capital. Just like that......
— Puspanjali Nag
The methods that our ancestors taught, which is farming, and now if we implement that, considering the market's demand, if we adopt our old methods, then we...
— Upendra Kumar Mahananda
