Dang. Commercial banana cultivation has been done on 25 bighas of land in Lamahi Municipality-6 Dhikpur, located between the Big Rapti and the Small Rapti. Banana cultivation, which was carried out with the investment of the Entrepreneurial Multipurpose Agricultural Cooperative, has turned the barren land into green.
According to the secretary of the cooperative, Bishwa Prakash Adhikari, 52 bighas of land, which is 277 plots of land in the names of various individuals, have been fenced off. He said, ‘The cooperative has prepared a procedure to prepare fenced land and cultivate banana according to the new procedure to be connected to agriculture.’
In the course of searching for land to utilize the barren land and connect it to business, banana cultivation has been started on the banks of the Rapti. “We have searched for the owner of the land and discussed it. They all gave the land easily,” said Secretary Adhikari.
He said that the land was rented for five years by making a deal. ‘Banana cultivation is good here because of the sandy soil,’ he said. Adhikari says that he has been cultivating bananas on a commercial basis to produce seedlings. In Baisakh 2080 BS, 20,000 plants were brought from Tandi and Hetauda in Chitwan and planted. Bananas have started to be planted within a year of planting. Adhikari said that Rs. 3.7 million was invested in purchasing the seedlings.
‘We have given employment to five people to look after the banana seedlings,’ he said. Adhikari says that he has been cultivating bananas commercially since last year because it does not require hard work like other agricultural crops and the income is also good. He said that the cooperative has been cultivating bananas because it can be harvested many times after planting once and does not suffer like other agricultural crops. .
Laxmi Sharma, President of the Entrepreneurial Multi-Purpose Agricultural Cooperative Society, said that a lot of income can be earned from commercial banana farming. ‘Water has been obtained from lifting and boring from the local river. There is no problem with electricity since the Lamhi Electricity Authority has expanded electricity,’ she said.
Since there is irrigation system along with soil for banana farming in Deukhuri, sufficient income can be earned even from small farming, said Prithviraj Lamichhane, an agricultural economist at the Agricultural Knowledge Center, Dang, who has seen an increase in the number of farmers farming bananas in recent times.
According to him, commercial banana farming is done on 530 hectares of land in the district.
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