The vegetable cultivation which started during the lockdown of covid has continued and from all the vegetable crops in a year, about 30 million villages are entering in a year.
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Sita Kunwar of Ribdikot Rural Municipality-7, Palung Mainadi Dabka was in a hurry to send cucumbers to the market. Kunwar, who was working in the garden along with four farmers, was busy picking cucumbers, collecting them, weighing them and putting them in plastic bags and sending them to the market. From the second week of Baisakh to the second week of June, there is a similar busyness.
She said that she earned more than 500,000 by selling 63 quintals of cucumbers last year. This year too, 58 quintals of cucumbers have been sent to the market. It is expected that 20 to 25 quintals of cucumbers can be sent to the market. Although the price is low, she has made a plan to sell more than 5 lakh 50 thousand rupees in two months. "Last year, we got a good price", she said, "this year, I have used more, but the price has to be sold cheaply". Apart from the land of her house, she has been cultivating vegetables by taking 25 plantations of land on lease.
Dub's Kamala Kunwar also sold cucumbers worth more than 5 lakh rupees last year. Cucumber worth more than 350,000 rupees has been sold so far this year. Although Arjun is a member of the Pragati Entrepreneurs Women Farmers Group, who is operating an agricultural and livestock farm, she has grown cucumbers personally.
"This year the price of cucumber is not very high," she said, "but I have planted more than last year." She said that 73 quintals of cucumbers were sold last year and 65 quintals of cucumbers have been sent to the market this year. He estimates that he can still export more than 20 quintals.
Women from 30 households in Palungmainadi Dabka, including Sita and Kamala, have been cultivating cucumbers. They remember that four years ago they were harassed by not getting the market price . At present, Kamal Kunwar and Hari Bahadur Kunwar of the village have helped in the management of the market and have been getting good prices for the last three years.
"I remember four years ago we had to sell it at 8 to 12 rupees per kg," said Sita Kunwar, president of Pragati Entrepreneurs Women Farmers Group, "about 25 percent of the cucumbers were rotting in the field". It has become easier now that the market has been managed.
Farmers of Dabka have started cucumber farming during the Covid-19 pandemic. Farmers involved in subsistence farming have made the village a busy place this season. Savitra Kunwar, a leading farmer, said, "The group started by women and sisters during the Covid-19 has now become meaningful. Now the sisters of 30 houses have started earning lakhs by cultivating cucumbers." She said that local cucumbers are sold in Bhaktapur from the second week of Baisakh to the second week of June. "Earlier, we had to carry it to Batase (Harthok-Chhahra road)," she said, "now all the farmers are able to sell from their homes as the vehicles reach their homes." She said that she was able to get a lot of produce from a small amount of land. She mentioned that most of the women in Dabka earn at least 1 lakh to 6 lakh rupees in two months.
The youth of the village are helping in the management of the market. According to Kamal Kunwar, who is involved in the market management, cucumbers worth more than 5 million rupees were sold in Tansen, Siddharth Highway and Butwal Mandi last year. So far this year, she said, she has sent cucumbers worth 40 lakhs to the market. They said that 30 percent of the cucumbers are still in the garden. According to another Hari Bahadur Kunwar who helps in managing the
market, more than 11 lakh rupees were exported last year. He said that more than 9 lakh rupees have been exported this year and 30 percent of cucumbers are yet to be exported.
Farmers here have been earning good income from vegetable production such as Akbare chilli, bitter gourd, beans, banda, golvanda, cauliflower, in addition to seasonal cucumbers. Jeevan Kunwar, a local leader, says that because of the abundant irrigation facilities in the village, the farmers of Dabka have left crops like corn and wheat and opted for vegetable farming.
'In the past, vegetables were cultivated for household expenses,' he said, 'Now that it has become commercial, the income has also increased.' He shared the satisfaction of growing vegetables with his family.
According to Narayan Bahadur Karki, Chairman of Ribdikot Rural Municipality, there was a record of 81 lakh rupees turnover from Kakra alone last year . Last year, a subsidy of 2 rupees per kg of production was given for vegetables.
"Farmers should be made able to stand on their own feet rather than giving subsidies all the time," he said, "There is no production-based subsidy program this year." Chairman Karki said that the rural municipality has given vitamin subsidies worth Rs.
