Lamjung farmers earn Rs 220 million from cardamom sale

Lamjung, Jan 20: The farmers in Lamjung district have earned almost Rs 220 million by selling 150 metric tonnes of cardamom in the current fiscal year.     

Senior Agricultural Officer of Prime Minister Agriculture Modernization Project Implementation Unit Office in Lamjung, Hari Bahadur Mijar, shared that the farmers in the district made a decent amount of income by supplying cardamom at a rate ranging from Rs 1,500 to Rs 2,400 per kilogram.    

But the production has decreased this year compared to the last year. The farmers sold cardamom worth Rs 240 million in the last fiscal year despite selling the product at Rs 1,200 per kilogram.    

Likewise, the district produced 380 metric tonnes of cardamom and earned Rs 200 million in the year 2079/80 BS.    

As per the data, the production of cardamom has decreased in Lamjung but the price has soared.    

The Marsyangdi Rural Municipality in Lamjung has produced the highest quantity of cardamom. Sanjapu village in Marsyangdi Rural Municipality alone produced 6,700 kilograms of cardamom in this year.    

Around 60 households in the village there earned almost Rs 150 million from cardamom, Chairman of Sanjapu Cardamom Farmers' Group Kamkashi Gurung stated.  

  
The Prime Minister Agriculture Modernization Project Implementation Unit Office said that cardamom farming is done in 750 hectares of land in the district.  (RSS)