Farmers are getting only Rs 10 to 12 per kg of cauliflower, but consumers are paying up to Rs 50 in the market
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In Mandandeupur Municipality-11 Ramchebensi field, vegetables are growing at the moment. The sprouted cauliflower is ready to be taken to the market. Farmers are busy cutting cauliflower. Some are preparing to cut cauliflower while others are preparing to take it to the market.
The 38-year-old Chiranjeevi Sapkota couple from Ramchebensi are also in a hurry to cut and pack cauliflower. In the evening, traders come to buy vegetables, so they are busy working.
"Traders come to the farm to buy vegetables," Sapkota said, "They don't buy vegetables, they take them from here, take them to Kathmandu after selling them, keep some profit and give them to us." "We don't have time to take the vegetables to the market and sell them ourselves, so we take as much as the traders give," he said.
Sapkota expressed his sorrow that he did not get the income according to his suffering. "They planted cauliflower after suffering for months," he said, "there is no price at the time of sale, now we have given it at 10 rupees per kilo, this does not raise investment, at the time of sale, we never get a good price, the farmer's suffering is always the same."
So far the best price has been Rs 17 per kg. He said that if the farmers do not get a fair price, they will be discouraged. Last year, Sapkota earned 1 lakh 50 rupees from the cauliflower planted in 5 plantations. Last year had a slight advantage as the price was slightly better. But Sapkota says that since the prices are not good this year, they are not in a position to take advantage. He estimates that he will earn only 80/90 thousand rupees this year.
Farmers are often happy when they reap the rewards of their pain and hard work. But the farmers of Ramchebensi, Rammani Sapkota, are not happy at the time of reaping the rewards of months of pain and hard work for the production of cauliflower. The reason is the market price of vegetables. Consumers are paying up to 50 rupees per kg of cauliflower in the market, but farmers are getting only 10 to 12 rupees.
``How much effort is required to grow a cauliflower,'' Rammani said, ``Preparing the place to plant cauliflower, preparing the wrapping of cauliflower, planting, watering, fertilizing, applying pesticides from time to time, removing weeds, etc. It takes effort. But the price is not available. To benefit from cauliflower, farmers should get 30 to 35 rupees per kg.
Rammani has planted cauliflower in 6 plants, from which he is producing about 6,000 kg. He has estimated that this year he will earn 60,000. Santoshi Sapkota, a 48-year-old local, has started commercial vegetable farming with the thought of becoming self-sufficient in agriculture. Lately, he is disappointed that he is not getting a fair price for vegetables.
says, "When vegetables are exported from Bharti, the farmers here are not getting a fair price for the vegetables, even though the seasonal vegetable cauliflower is more produced at the present time, the farmers are not getting a fair price. If they can stop the export of vegetables from India at this time, the farmers will get a good price."
