Sugarcane cultivation has been proved as a blessing for the farmers of Kabirdham district in Chhattisgarh.
Gouva Verma, a farmer of this district, has created a record by earning Rs 32.35 lakh from sugarcane cultivation during the last nine years. Verma said that the welfare policies of the state government and Bhoramdev Sahkari Shakkar Utpadak Karkhana Kawardha have played vital role in strengthening his financial status.He said, by selling sugarcane to the Bhoramdev sugar factory he gets Rs 170 per quintal and support price Rs 15 per quintal for harvesting, loading and transportation, besides bonus Rs 35 per quintal from the state government.
Before the establishment of the Sugar factory, Verma had been producing sugarcane in a traditional way, from which he got 150 to 200 quintal sugarcane from one acre and at that time he was getting a few bucks for . But after the establishment of the sugar factory his financial life has been changed. Verma said that he adopted the modern farming system advised by the officers of the sugar factory and the agriculture department and started farming sugarcane with the grant on tissue culture plants. Now, he is cultivating sugarcane in about 25 acre farm land and gets 400 to 500 quintal sugarcane per acre.