The extension service suggests a crop such as clover,buckwheat or winter rye.
VOA: special.2009.03.10
"I take it that most of your soldiers are small farmers and will need the horses to put in a crop that will carry themselves and their families through the next winter.
VOA: special.2009.12.24
As Bajrang Lal Goyal, a trader who joined the Rajdhani exchange 40 years ago, points out, India's wintercrop is just days away from hitting the market.
The outlook for the winter wheat crop is also poor, with India's main reservoirs, a source for irrigation canals, one-third below their seasonal average.