Which of the following crops require very little water?
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ExplaThese include cool-season legumes such as peas, lentils and fava beans, and the crucifer crops: Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, collards, kale, kohlrabi, mustard, broccoli, turnips and watercress. Sweet corn and lettuce are shallow-rooted and don't do well without a lot of water.nation:
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These include cool-season legumes such as peas, lentils and fava beans, and the crucifer crops: Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, collards, kale, kohlrabi, mustard, broccoli, turnips and watercress. Sweet corn and lettuce are shallow-rooted and don't do well without a lot of water.
Millets on one acre saves six million litres of water. Millets are far superior nutritionally to rice and wheat. They have more protein, iron, calcium and fibre. As against rice, where the standing water produces greenhouse gases like methane, millets that are grown with legumes fix carbon in the soil.