Dryland agriculture: one way of Climate resilient agriculture
Dryland farming can be read as Climate resilient agriculture, for it is neutral to weather vagaries. It naturally supports cultivars like millets, pulses, lentils, oilseeds and native fruits. In this day and age when we are striving to decrease global warming from every walk of like including agricultural emissions and reduction of external inputs, dryland farming highlighting zero budget natural farming discounts irrigation, fertiliser inputs, and thrives in an environment without much effort. On the other hand they are hardy enough to not just thrive in harsh dry climate but sequesters carbon into the dry soils and the legumes fix nitrogen into the soil. These dryland crops also absorb the complex web of chemicals photosynthesizing into nutrition for human and livestock consumption. Millets for example are found to be so rich in riboflavin and iron content besides proteins that thy ae the ideal fit for endocrine disorders like Hypertension, Hyper-Thyroidism, Diabetes Miletus and ch