Yearly millet production in Palpa is decreasing, 'millet day' limited to announcement

Despite understanding the importance of millet, farmers have abandoned farming due to lack of workers.

Shrawn 16, 2082

Madhav Aryal

Yearly millet production in Palpa is decreasing, 'millet day' limited to announcement

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Yamakumari Suryavanshi of Humin, Rambha rural municipality-4 of Palpa produced up to 50 plants of millet. At present, 10 plants are produced. Suryavanshi said that she used to plant millet for eating at home.

Until 10 years ago, he was eager to plant millet. It was customary to plant millet alternately. But now a little is used for home. That too, many people in the village have stopped planting millets. "There are no people who wear it now," she said. Now it has been stopped to be sold. A little is used to eat at home.

In recent years, farmers have stopped cultivating millet, which is considered as a nutritious and healthy food crop. Yamakumari Suryavanshi of Humin Marsidanda has also limited the land for millet to 20 percent. She said that she stopped wearing it when there was no one to work for her. Earlier, millet helped to become self-sufficient in food. Now he has gone abroad from home. Therefore, there are no workers to work. "Vermparm like before has also stopped happening," she said, "so the area for planting millet has become limited." According to her, till 15 years ago, every farmer in the village used to plant millet. But in recent years, as its importance is being forgotten, the fields of farmers have started to become barren.

This year, the government has announced to celebrate National Millet Day for the first time. Millet Day is going to be celebrated on 16th of July with the slogan 'Diet of millet food: the basis of food security and healthy life'. The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development and various farmers' organizations are going to celebrate millet day. Even though the ministry said that millet day is going to be celebrated to promote the millet crop as well as to expand the cultivation, there is no information about it even at the lower level.

When people are not found to work, their children show laziness and they stop doing millet when they are attracted to other work. There is no need to apply a lot of sewage and manure while cultivating millet. But now it is difficult to get even its seeds in the village. Till 15 years ago, traditional farming and old crop millet cultivation was the main food crop of most of the farmers. In the traditional way, seeds of local varieties were used as an intercrop in maize. They used to wear only millet separately. "Many people used to plant it inside the corn," said Kul Bahadur Nagarkoti of Tansen Municipality-8, "Some people also used to plant millet on barren land." According to him, millet was used mostly in all the villages. For food, millet was used in the form of flour, flour, and bread.

Recently, there is concern that this grain will disappear after farmers stopped cultivating millet. 68-year-old Bhawanisara Saru of Nisdi rural municipality-5 said that the lack of workers rather than not knowing the importance of millet has reduced the attraction towards its cultivation. According to him, farmers have stopped farming at the beginning of the millet season. In some places it is difficult to get even seeds. "This situation has arisen because the farmers' interest in millet crops has decreased," she said. Millet planting has been reduced, Jhilingi and beans are planted.'

According to him, the main crop of almost all the farmers in the village was millet. But today those same farmers have only continued millet farming, she said. Traditional Farming and Old Crop Millet farming was the main food crop of the farmers in more than 40 villages of the district. But millet cultivation is decreasing in the houses of those old farmers. Millet is considered a nutritious grain. Farmers say that it is difficult to see millet, which was used as annual crop.

There is a shortage of millet in the village after they stopped cultivating. Ganga Bahadur Saru of Rambha Rural Municipality-2 said that millet, which can be bought for 100 rupees, is now not available even for 200 rupees. According to him, even though it is healthier or more profitable than other crops, its attractiveness is decreasing. "With urbanization, the laziness of people is increasing," he said. Kushal Jisi, who was selling pulses and pulses in the village of Tansen municipality-4, said that he had to buy and eat millet that could be grown in his own farm. He said that he stopped cultivating millet because he stopped growing grains that are beneficial for health and started eating ready-made food from packets available in the market. According to the agricultural knowledge center and local levels, farmers in more than 45 wards out of 81 wards are cultivating millet.

In the past, the District Agricultural Development Office used to make a program to expand millet cultivation. But when the budget was not sent, it was limited to paper only. As a result, there was no incentive for millet farmers. Then the leading farmer says that it is disappearing. Lately, Raithane has placed a program to promote crops in the agriculture budget at the local level. But the budget is low. The work of studying the possibilities and making the program is for the local level. But then ignored. Such programs have not been prioritized at the agricultural knowledge center and local level.

Although there is a millet crop for food nutrition, security and environment and rural transformation, no initiative has been taken to protect Raithane crop millet. Although the government is going to promote millet at the international level and 2023 has been celebrated as the International Year of Millet Crops, the Agricultural Knowledge Centers have stated that the program to promote it has not come up.

The cabinet meeting held on June 30 decided that the National Millet Day will be celebrated on July 16 every year from now on. The government has decided to celebrate the National Day in July when millet cultivation, which is a versatile grain, is decreasing. However, no instructions or circulars have come to the local level, state government and the federal office until July 16th. It has not been found that the local level has managed a separate budget for millet. Although Rambha rural municipality has allocated budget for the promotion of Raithane crops, it has also given subsidies to other crops such as millet, paddy, etc.

Millet is cultivated in an area of 2,537 hectares in Palpa. Palpa produced 3,762 metric tons in the previous year, but in the current fiscal year, 3,561 tons were produced. According to the Ministry of Agriculture, millet can be grown in 77 districts at an altitude of 60 meters to 3650 meters. According to the ministry, in the financial year 2080/81, three lakh 732 metric tons of millet was produced in an area of two lakh 24 thousand 935 hectares. The productivity of millet crop is 1.33 metric tons per hectare.

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