Vegetable farming is filling the pockets of farmers of 15 villages. photo awakening
Jagran correspondent, Gopalganj. Vegetable farming is filling the pockets of farmers of 15 villages of Bhore and Phulwaria block. The vegetables prepared in these villages are reaching the markets of Uttar Pradesh today. Three farmers from Sripur and Majirwan villages of Phulwaria block cultivated vegetables. This initiative was taken four years ago.
After a long period of four years, today farmers of 15 villages of Phulwariya and Bhore block are producing vegetables on a large scale. Due to this, about three hundred families of these villages are earning good income. Today, by making a leading position in the production of vegetables, the farmers here are earning well every day and are improving the future of themselves and the area. The vegetables grown here reach the cities situated on the banks of Ganga in bordering Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.
There was a time when people living on the banks of river Jharhi did not even have access to decent food. Till two decades ago, people of this area were limited to the production of sugarcane and sugarcane. The production of wheat and paddy on the soil here was negligible. With time, farmers realized the value of land in this area when they learned the methods of vegetable cultivation.
Three years ago, farmers of Majirwan and Sripur villages took the initiative to cultivate vegetables on a very small area of land. Seeing vegetable farming profitable at some time, farmers started cultivating it on a large scale. Today the situation is that vegetable farming has become the main means of livelihood for the farmers of 15 villages like Kalyanpur, Maghiya, Chautarwan, Vishunpura, Sripur, Rakba Khap, Gidhaan, Lachhan Tola, Songadhwa and Hathikhal of Bhore and Phulwariya blocks. People from more than 300 families from these villages are cultivating vegetables on a large scale.
The soil here is gold for vegetables
Jayanath Varman of Gidhaan Bengali Colony is cultivating cabbage in five acres. They say that the soil here is gold for every kind of vegetable. Be it the cultivation of brinjal or the cultivation of cabbage, pumpkin, chilli, beans, banana, taroi, nanua, potato and onion. Here every vegetable is produced on a large scale. Govind Varman of the same village cultivates cabbage in four acres. He said that selling the vegetables grown here is not a problem.
The vegetables here reach UP and Motihari
Farmers cultivating vegetables in this area said that the vegetables grown here go to many big markets including Gorakhpur, Deoria, Padrauna, Kushinagar, Siwan, Chhapra, Motihari, Salempur, Mairwan, Bhatpar, Bhatni. There is a big market for the vegetables grown here.
Average daily vegetable business is Rs 4 to 5 lakh
Senior Rayat Savru Lal Chauhan, who keeps a daily eye on the market organized in Sripur, said that the business of all types of vegetables together is worth four to five lakh rupees every day. The average estimate of business also depends on the fluctuations in the prices of vegetables.