Bhandra district of Maharashtra is known as rice producing district. But now the farmers of this district are taking record production of banana by avoiding the traditional crop. Farmers say that horticulture farming is making good profits.
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Farmers in the state are now turning to horticulture more than traditional farming. Due to climate change and unseasonal rains, farmers are constantly facing new problems. overcome these difficulties Farmer To get good yield, they are continuously doing new experiments in the fields. Farmers are emphasizing on modern farming by breaking traditional farming. So Bhandra district is known as rice producing district. But now the farmers of this district are seen avoiding traditional crops. The farmers of the district are now taking record production of banana. And the farmers are getting a profit of three to four lakhs from the banana crop in one acre. Vidarbha of Maharashtra has maximum paddy cultivation and Bhandra district is also known as paddy city. But now farmers are paying more attention to horticulture farming.
Bhandara district is famous for paddy cultivation in the state. In fact, the high quality rice here is in great demand not only in India but also abroad. But due to the changing weather and not getting a fair price for the produce, farmers are doing horticulture farming. Moreshwar Singanjude, a farmer of Lakhani taluka of the district, has achieved record production of banana by horticulture farming by combining modern technology leaving traditional rice cultivation. He has made economic progress from the banana crop. Similarly, other farmers of the village are also changing the way of farming.
four acres of banana garden
Farmer Moreshwar Singanjude has an ancestral farm of eight acres. In this field, he was cultivating the traditional paddy crop. But due to the vagaries of nature and traders getting trapped in the cycle, they were facing economic crisis. Because of this, Moreshwar Singanjude decided to break traditional farming and add modern technology to banana farming. Initially, he cultivated banana crop on two acres on an experimental basis. Due to this, he has got a big economic benefit and now he has achieved record production by planting bananas on four acres of land.
Four times more profit than paddy crop
Moreshwar has adopted intercropping as a supplement to horticulture. This reduces the cost of the crop. He gets a profit of about 3 to 4 lakh bananas per acre. This profit is about four times more than the profit from paddy crop. When Moreshwar Singanjude planted bananas, many people even made fun of him. But he focused on agriculture with tireless concentration. Now the situation has changed and many farmers of the area are taking advice from Moreshwar Singanjude. Many people have cultivated horticulture with banana and new crops while combining modernity.
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