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The price of Akbare chilli has reached its highest ever here. Akbare chillies are being sold at 1000 per kg in Diktel Bazar, the headquarters.
Diktel traders used to buy oil from village farmers at 700 to 800 per kg and sell it to customers at 1000. Although the price is expensive, consumers are buying Akbare because of its taste and medicinal properties.
Indra Bahadur Shrestha of Diktel Roopakot Majhuwagadhi Municipality-4 said that he is currently selling 14/15 kg per week by growing Akbare Khursani. 'I have planted about 1,200 Akbare chilli plants this year. Now it has started producing 14/15 kg per week," he said. "The demand for Akbare chilli in the district is good. In the coming days, I am planning to expand the cultivation of seasonal Akbare chillies.'
In Diktel market, vegetables are consumed along with chillies produced by farmers from Khalle, Buipa, Bamrang, Lafang, Solma, Nerpa and Dorpa. The limited number of farmers who cultivate commercial vegetables have been earning good income. In the
district, the price of all kinds of vegetables and fruits along with Akbare chilli has become the highest so far. Consumers are complaining that the prices of vegetables and fruits in the district are high because the people close to the leader take the subsidies provided by the government for farmers and do not cultivate them.
Diktel currently has lamb 150 per kg, mushroom 300 per kg, onion 90 per kg, potato 60 per kg, cabbage 40 per kg and cauliflower 150 per kg. Ganga Bahadur Bishwakarma, the leading farmer of Diktel Rupakot Majhuwagadhi Municipality-2 Solma, says that the price of vegetables will continue to skyrocket until real farmers have access to government subsidies.
After the increase in the price of fruits and vegetables produced in the district, the market is filled with vegetables and fruits brought from different districts of Terai. The concerned authorities are silent when the vegetables and fruits brought from Terai at cheap prices are being sold openly without pesticide testing.
