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    The cloudTraditional Farming PracticesSeed & Crop CultivationDryland & Organic FarmingZero-Irrigation Dryland FarmingTraditional Dryland CultivationSustainable Crop Methods
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    A dimension within Traditional Dryland Cultivation

    Sustainable Crop Methods

    This theme covers various farming methods, including traditional practices and irrigation, for sustainable crop production and conservation.

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    In your area, farmers are overwhelmingly affirming their successful engagement in cultivating a second crop with zero or minimal irrigation 💧. This is primarily achieved through a strong reliance on traditional farming methods, which are seen as effective and sustainable. A central theme is the profound commitment to seed conservation 🌱, specifically preserving indigenous varieties of important crops like pulses, millets, and oilseeds, ensuring agricultural resilience and heritage for future generations. There is a clear desire to continue and support these time-tested, organic practices. 💡

    Dominant Themes

    Zero-irrigation/Rain-fed Second Crop Cultivation
    Traditional Farming Methods
    Indigenous Seed Conservation
    Sustainable Agricultural Practices

    Actionable Recommendations

    • 🌱 💧 🤝Officially recognize and promote traditional, zero-irrigation farming methods as valuable and sustainable agricultural practices.
    • 🌾 🏦 🔗Establish or expand community-based seed banks to support the preservation and distribution of indigenous crop varieties crucial for dryland farming.
    • 🧑 🤝 🧑Facilitate knowledge exchange programs among farmers to share successful traditional farming techniques and seed conservation strategies.

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    🧭 Action recipe· Farming for Resilience

    Save Your Seeds, Grow a Second Crop

    After the main harvest, we harness the land's natural moisture to cultivate a vital second crop, ensuring food and oil for our families.

    🧭 Action recipe· Farming for Resilience

    Save Your Seeds for the Next Season's Harvest

    By carefully collecting and preserving seeds from our first harvest, we ensure a second, nutritious crop and maintain our traditional farming methods for generations.

    🧭 Action recipe· Farming for Resilience

    Cultivate Crops That Ask for No Water

    Facing the prospect of future water scarcity, our community relies on cultivating traditional zero-irrigation crops to secure food and conserve precious resources.

    🧭 Action recipe· Farming for Resilience

    Grow a Second Crop: Use Your Own Seeds

    By utilizing old seeds from their fields and selecting water-efficient varieties, farmers in Kharod ensure food security with a vital second crop.

    Where these voices come from

    ODISHA, INDIA54 voices MADHYA PRADESH, INDIA20 voices CHHATTISGARH, INDIA13 voices UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA9 voices RAJASTHAN, INDIA7 voices JHARKHAND, INDIA5 voices

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    🌱 🤲 🌾

    If we are to grow a second crop with zero irrigation, then we will also conserve using traditional farming methods, and we can use wheat, gram, and mustard in conservation.

    — Bhagora kanti Lal · Malmatha, Dungarpur, Rajasthan

    🌾 🚫 💧

    If we are to cultivate a second crop with zero irrigation, then we will conserve using traditional farming methods. Wheat, chickpea, and mustard can also be used for conservation.

    — Bhagora kanti Lal · Malmatha, Dungarpur, Rajasthan

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    If we are to grow a second crop with zero irrigation, we can do traditional farming. We will conserve. That conservation would include wheat and chickpeas.

    — Prakash Kumar

    🌱 🤲 🌍

    If we cultivate a second crop with zero irrigation, we will also practice conservation through traditional farming methods. Wheat and gram are among the most important crops for conservation.

    — Laxmanlal

    🌾 🤲 🏛️

    If we are to cultivate a second crop with zero irrigation, we will preserve traditional farming methods. We also request the government to allow us to grow wheat, gram, and mustard.

    — Jayanti Bhagora · Malmatha, Dungarpur, Rajasthan

    🌱 🚜 🌾

    If we are to grow a second crop from scratch, we will conserve traditional farming methods.

    — Bhagora kanti Lal · Chhapi, Dungarpur, Rajasthan

    🌾 🌧️ 🤲

    Yes, we grow a second crop with zero irrigation and follow traditional farming methods and seed conservation.

    — Laxmanlal

    🌱 🌧️ ✅

    We are cultivating a second crop based on zero irrigation. Crop production with zero irrigation is possible by conserving rainwater, retaining moisture in the soil, and using traditional methods.

    — sudhir gamanga · Kharlingi, Housingboard Colony, Rayagada

    ☀️ 🌱 🤲

    Yes, we do second crop farming with zero irrigation, and we also practice traditional farming methods and seed conservation.

    — AbhiLL Ipsa

    🌱 ☀️ 🌰

    Yes, we do a second crop with zero irrigation and follow traditional farming as well as seed preservation.

    — Upendra Kumar Mahananda

    🌍 🌱 👴

    Yes, on zero-irrigation land, we grow a second crop, and the maintenance of traditional seeds and farming methods are still done using our old methods.

    — Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    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 have been cultivating a second crop with zero irrigation and traditional farming methods.

    — Tankeswar Kumar · Kalahandi, Odisha

    👵 🌱 ☀️

    Yes, we grow a second crop without irrigation and also maintain old traditional seeds according to customary methods.

    — Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    We will practice traditional farming and save seeds for next year.

    — Sathimambalaka · Tado, Rayagada, Odisha

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    Yes, we grow zero-tillage crops like mustard, gram, barley, and also follow traditional farming methods and seed conservation.

    — Laxmanlal

    🌱 🐂 🌾

    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

    🌱 🌧️ 🔄

    We have been doing zero irrigation, second crop cultivation, and traditional farming.

    — Tankeswar Kumar · Kalahandi, Odisha

    🌱 🤲 ☀️

    Yes, we grow zero-irrigation crops and follow simple traditional farming methods and 20 conservation.

    — Laxmanlal

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    In our region, zero irrigation crops are sown, mainly pulses and oilseeds, and we practice traditional farming and conserve pulse seeds.

    — Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand

    🌱 ☀️ 🌰

    Do you grow a second crop without irrigation, along with traditional farming and seed conservation?

    — Amar Lal Dhurwey · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

    🌱 🌧️ 🌾

    Yes, I grow a second crop using zero irrigation and also save seeds with traditional farming methods.

    — Vimala

    🌱 🤲 📜

    We cultivate zero-irrigation crops, including pulses and oilseeds, and also conserve them, as they are part of our heritage.

    — Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand

    🌱 ☀️ 🌾

    On our vacant land, we grow a second crop without irrigation, using traditional seeds and traditional methods.

    — Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    Yes, we conserve traditional seeds using traditional methods and also farm using traditional methods, where, by God's grace, the crop grows even without irrigation.

    — Rupesh Maravi · Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh

    🌱 ☀️ 🤲

    Yes, a second crop is grown with zero irrigation. Using traditional methods, with the help of a plow, they save seeds for themselves.

    — Paradeshi Mirdha · Rengali, Sambalpur, Odisha

    🌱 💧 🤲

    We cultivate seeds such as chickpea, lentil, mustard, and horse gram using traditional, possibly rain-fed, farming methods. We preserve these seeds and cultivate them using this traditional agricultural practice.

    — Laxmi Sahu

    🧑‍🌾 ☀️ 🌱

    Yes, a second crop is grown with zero irrigation, and seeds are saved for oneself using a plow with traditional methods.

    — Paradeshi Mirdha · Rengali, Sambalpur, Odisha

    🌱 🔄 🌾

    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

    🌱 ☀️ 🌾

    Do you cultivate a second crop with zero irrigation and follow traditional farming and seed protection? Yes.

    — Rajesh Mallik · Boudh, Odisha

    🌱 ☀️ 🤲

    Yes, we practice zero-irrigation farming and also conserve seeds. For example, horse gram, Kodo millet, little millet, finger millet, and black gram are zero-irrigation crops.

    — Sukhdas Mandavi · Mohla, Mohla-Manpur-Ambagarh Chowki, Chhattisgarh

    🌱 🏜️ 🌾

    Cultivates moong as a second crop using traditional methods in zero irrigation.

    — Paradeshi Mirdha · Rengali, Sambalpur, Odisha

    🌱 ☀️ 🔄

    Yes, we cultivate a second crop without water. And farming is also done without water. We have collected and kept those seeds. And we will again plant that as a second crop.

    — Ulapi Sahu

    🌱 ☀️ ♻️

    I am doing 2nd crop in zero irrigation. I am also preserving the seeds and adopting the organic farming.

    — Bindhani Bibhuti · Tamando, Khordha, Odisha

    🌱 🔁 🏺

    Yes, we are cultivating for the second time. We are preserving those seeds using traditional methods.

    — Selina Pangi

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    Yes, I am cultivating a second crop with irrigation and following traditional farming methods and seed protection.

    — Sabina · Tumudibandh, Kandhamal, Odisha

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    We are cultivating a second crop in Dhanapur, and by keeping our own seeds safe, we are farming using traditional cultivation methods. This is our

    — Padmalochan Majhi · Ratachua, Rayagada, Odisha

    🌱 🌧️ 🌾

    We do traditional farming. We save rain-fed seeds and cultivate crops like sorghum and chickpea.

    — Vijay kanesh · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

    🗑️ 🌰 👍

    We want to cultivate with zero irrigation, but if we do not preserve good seeds, then our farming will be fine.

    — PRADEEP KUMAR KANHAR · Boudh, Odisha

    🌱 🤲 🌾

    We will cultivate a second crop, preserve the seeds, and cultivate for the upcoming year as well.

    — Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

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