Nearly 33 young farmers from villages including Kartaj, Singhpur, lokipar, Jallapura and Joba of Narsinghpur district have followed the concept of doubling income of farmers in five years as per the State Government’s plan. These farmers formed groups and have begun farming of drumstick on 150 acres of land through Drip Method.
The farmers have planted drumsticks by drip method at a distance of 10 feet line to line and 5 feet from plant to plant. These farmers have also taken two lines of turmeric at intervals. These farmers have acquired 80 quintals per acre turmeric through advanced technique of farming and this has fetched the farmers an additional income of `1 lakh.
In Kartaj village itself, drumsticks are being grown through advanced methods of farming on 100 acres of agricultural land. Drumstick is mainly a horticulture crop, the leaves, fruit, flower of which is all used. Drumstick is acquired from about 150-200 quintal per acre land.
This fetches a profit of about `2.5 to 3 lakh for the farmers. Agricultural Production Commissioner Shri PC Meena who visited the fields of the farmers in Narsinghpur district under “Gramoday se Bharat Uday Campaign” praised the innovation. He termed horticulture crop and animal husbandry as mandatory for raising their income.
Agricultural Production Commissioner PC Meena instructed the agricultural group to register themselves under Atma Yojana of Agriculture Department. He said that special kits were provided to progressive farmers for bee farming. This will hike farmers income up to 25 per cent.
Agricultural Production Commissioner toured round the villages along with local MlA Jalam Singh Patel, Collector Narsinghpur RR Bhonsle, CEO District Panchayat Pratibha Pal, departmental officials under the Gramoday-se Bharat Uday Abhiyan. He also gave information of modern techniques and horticulture crops in order to make farming a profitable business.