“If you have to earn well from agriculture, you have to think individually,” it is earning more than Rs 6 lakh from the cultivation of Bihar’s progressive farmer Uma Shankar Singh, maize, banana, turmeric, sweet corn and baby corn every year. But this journey is not easy. Prior to the infection of Corona, Uma Sankar Singh ran a training center to prepare for government work. Everything stood due to the infection, and he returned to his village of Lakshman. From there, the first step towards agriculture was taken.
Farmers made by teacher after many failures
The story of Muzaffarpur Uma Shankar Singh is an example of failure, failure and eventually success. Uma Shankar, ‘up to the farmer’, I conducted a training for the government to prepare for the government in Muzaffarpur, but everything was stopped due to locking. I had to return to the village under compulsion. After returning to the village of Lakshman, he paid 20 thousand rupees and hired one and a half acres of land and started cultivating banana. Unfortunately, the floods that year had ruined their entire crop, and they had to experience a loss of one and a half lakh rupees. Despite this, he did not leave the vegetables at a cost of one lakh, but because of Corona’s second wave, the wounded vegetables in the field.
He added that he started the work of running a taxi and frustration of agriculture, but he could not last long. Again, he decided to try his fortune in agriculture. This time he cultivated maize and turmeric on three acres of land. Hard work was paid and only two and a half lakh rupees was earned from maize. This success changed him completely towards the agricultural business.
Baby corn and sweet corn received different mark
In the Vidyapati Nagar constituency of Samastipur district, Progressive farmer Uma Shankar Singh is currently cultivating sweet corn including banana, turmeric and baby corn. He says that farmers became a farmer during banana cultivation. But after the information obtained from the agricultural sector, raising the baby corn and sweet corn has given a unique identity. He says that the crop of sweet corn crop in one acre is sold for Rs. 30 per kg from the field.
At the same time, baby corn cultivation is taking place on three acres, and they are preparing to increase it to three acres. In addition, about 2400 banana plants have been planted in two acres, in which fruits have begun to come. About two and a half lakh rupees per acre is likely. Uma Shankar Singh says he earns more than six lakh rupees from his 10 acres of land.
The government subsidize the seeds for agriculture
When Uma Sankar Singh started, he bought the seeds of sweet corn from the private store at a rate of Rs. However, despite the government’s 50 percent subsidy, the seed received the seed at a rate of about 1375 per kg. With the aim of promoting baby corn and sweet corn in the state, Agriculture Secretary Sanjay Agarwal recently said that a maximum subsidy of 75 per cent will be given to grow high -value crops under various schemes of the department. At the same time, the subsidy rate is currently fixed at 50 percent of the baby corn or the hottest weather per kg per kg per kg of corn and 50 % for the sweet corn or Rs.1500 per kg.
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