Even though the farmers are spreading pesticides, the disease could not be controlled due to the rains, and the damage has been more than 5 million.
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34-year-old Hurmat Dangi of Chhatreshwari Rural Municipality-4 Jaichour planted 6,000 bunches of tomatoes on a 10-plant plot of land last May. By producing 150 quintals of tomatoes from 6000 plants, he thought of selling around 600,000.
At the end of June, when the tomatoes started to bear fruit, after a few consecutive days of rain, the disease came. All the tomatoes that had already fruited were destroyed.
Sampad Budhathoki, a farmer of Kapurkot Rural Municipality-1, also planted 28,000 tomatoes on 18 plants of land. An outbreak of ant disease was observed when the fruit started to ripen. Tomatoes rotted. After the tomato planted in 18 plantations got a disease, even though he sprayed pesticides, more than 14 quintals of fruits were wasted due to rotting.
Farmers like them have suffered millions of losses. All the wards of Kapurkot Rural Municipality and Chhatreshwari are affected by the disease. Tomatoes of farmers of Jaichour, Sanghar, Bhotechour have been damaged. Padam Budhathoki, a farmer of Kapurkot Rural Municipality-3, said that the tomatoes planted in 10 seedlings were destroyed by the disease and the fruit rotted due to the use of pesticides. Now he has uprooted the plants and planted paddy.
Dhan Bahadur Gharti, a farmer of Kapurkot-1, says that the tomatoes planted by his brother Nar Bahadur on 10/12 plantations are also rotting due to the disease. He says that due to the disease, a single farmer has lost 25 to 30 thousand rupees.
In Kapurkot, more than 3,000 farmers have been cultivating off-season commercial vegetables and most of them have grown tomatoes, so 50 percent of the farmers have been affected by the disease, said Vinod Thapa, head of the agriculture branch. He said that despite the farmers spreading pesticides, the disease could not be brought under control due to the rain.
Sudip Khanal, an agricultural technician of Chhatreshwari Rural Municipality, said that more than a dozen farmers of Jaichour, Bhotechour, Sanghar have damaged the tomato plant.
Ishwari Narayan Gharti, information officer of Agricultural Development Office, Salyan, said that there has been a blight outbreak in tomatoes planted by farmers in Dhodchaur and Sharda Municipality of Siddheshwari.
