Expensive market, husband abroad, taking care of the house, and the heart touching struggle of a woman who earns up to 20,000 a month from bangur, chili, kafal and suntala.
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The condition of the house was poor. What to do and what not to do. After thinking a lot, I thought that success can be achieved only by hard work. There was no money to study in the country and to send her husband to work abroad. Until 10 years ago, it was a situation of kham, ke lam. I could not see my husband earning. So I started working hard myself.
When there was no way of income, I used to buy khudi (rice cut in half) and produce homemade liquor and sell it . After earning some amount from that too, I started having cash money.
plans to make home-brewed wine and raise a heron . The pas (jadko chokra) thrown away from the home-made liquor became the food of the vultures. The Ward Office gave a subsidy to two children after raising a baby boy. Raising a single pig for one year earned 57 thousand 600 rupees . Very happy. Now I have reared 4 male and one female bangur in the barn . There were two females . Made a sale . I have also cultivated chillies along with the cultivation of beans. Akbare Khursani has 600 plants.
20 to 30 thousand income is also from Akbare Khursani . I have also raised a goat at home. There are also three Mau, Khasi, Boka . I have also earned an income of 30,000 to 40,000 rupees in a year by selling cattle and goats. In turn, oranges and summer have also grown . I have earned 30,000 by selling oranges and vegetables. The income is good even in the season of
Kafal . 40,000 more income has been generated by picking the kafal and taking it to the nearby Batase and selling it. I think that if you stay in the village and do some work, you can earn some income. Even if you don't have a job, you never want to spend your days sleeping at home. After earning some income, life is becoming easier. But she has not stopped working hard. My house is in Ribdikot rural municipality-8, Phekko Somhar.
I am now 34 years old. There is Somhar village at a distance of 45 minutes walking distance from Batase under the Tansen-Chhahra road. My ancestral home is Panina under Panini Rural Municipality of Arghakhanchi. I have studied till class 12 from Harihar Sanskriti Mav Pokharathok in Argakhanchi. My son studies in class 1 and daughter in class 6 . It has been 10 years since husband Devendra Lamtange moved to India for work. Although her husband has been working in India for a long time, her earnings are sufficient for herself. I am in charge of household expenses . As there are mother-in-laws and children at home, I have to take care of everyone.
has become more expensive in the market. The price of every daily consumable has increased. Therefore, if there is no income, it will be a problem to manage household expenses . Salt, oil, spices, rice, clothes are all expensive . Regular income is nothing . However, according to the season, the income from vegetables, fruits, khasiboka, home-made alcohol, bangur has to be spent.
It is not a problem to sell the meat of bangur raised at home. There is no problem in selling Khasi-Boka as there is Batase market nearby. There is no problem in selling caravans. The profit is good when selling oranges and vegetables in the market. Even if the income is 15 to 20 thousand per month, the expenses are also the same . 12 years ago and the current price is not comparable. Because, then and now the price has increased a lot .
There is a situation where spices available in 600 rupees per kilo are not even available for 1,200 rupees . The condition of rice is the same . Rice available at 30 rupees per kilo is now not even available at 60 rupees. Therefore, if the government does not control the price, it will make poor families more poor.
presentation : Madhav Aryal
