VANISHED BUT REJUVENATED
This
is indeed a story of diligent farmer Mr. Sannu Singh Rawat residing in village
Bhawanipura, Block Masuda block of Ajmer district in Rajasthan. He is now into
vegetable cultivation and has made farming a lucrative affair and reaping a
profit of Rs 2.50 Lakh per annum with the help of IFFCO-Tokio Integrated Rural
Development Project IIRDP). The IIRDP is being implemented in 4 villages i.e.
Bhawanipura, Ranisagar, Kharwa and Jawantpura Lahiri. Not only Mr. Sannu Singh
but 52 other farmers of the project villages are also getting benefit of the
IIRDP.
Before 5-6 years, the area was famous
for tomato cultivation and earlier,
Kharwa village is known for local tomato mandi for the nearby villages because
the farmers were growing tomato in plenty and marketed in Delhi and Ahmadabad
mandies. The farmers left growing tomato due to low rainfall and sever attack
of diseases & pests. The farmers are not using latest varieties and
technologies of growing tomato crop; therefore, they forced to left the tomato
cultivation. During conducting Rapid Rural Appraisal (RRA) in the process of
formulation of this project, the need was felt to introduce new varieties of
tomato, other vegetable crops and improved techniques of vegetable cultivation
to rejuvenate the tomato and other vegetable cultivation in the project
villages. Accordingly, the plan of activities has been prepared.
As per the plan, the technical trainings of
the farmers have been arranged at “National Research Centre on Seed
Spices-Tabiji (Ajmer)” and imparted technical know-how and improved package and
Practices of vegetable cultivation. After imparting trainings, the project
provided 30.8 Kg. High
Yield varieties vegetable seeds of Tomato, Okra, Sponge gourd, Bottle gourd,
Bitter gourd, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Spinach, Chilly and Capsicum to 52 interested
farmers of the project villages for undertaking vegetable cultivation. Mr Sannu
Singh is the one of them, who got the 240 grams of Cauliflower (Salakha),
Tomato (Trisha-1302) and Chilly (Nikhar) seeds from the IFFCO-Tokio CSR Project. He has grown Cauliflower, Tomato and Chilly over
1.10 acre area.
He has earned about
1,25,000/- from Cauliflower cultivation on half an acre land and Rs. 20,000/-
by growing Tomato on 0.10 acre and Rs 34,600/- from Chilly on 0.50 acre land.
His total net profit was about Rs.1.80 lakh in 3-4 months in 1.10 acre land from
vegetable cultivation.Mr Sannu Singh Rawat said that, he got good
quality seeds and trainings from the project and only due that he could able to
earn handsome return beyond his expectation from the vegetable cultivation.
Also he did not face any problem in selling the yield because the traders procured his produce itself at
the field.