Ginger sale increases in Rukum West

Rukum Paschim, Jan. 22: Triveni rural municipality of Rukum Paschim district has sold the ginger worth Rs 60 million in a year. Although the number of farmers declined in the local level as compared to the previous year, the production of spicy plant was higher, fetching more income.

Chief of agriculture section at the local level, Ramesh Pun, informed that the ginger farmers made a good income by selling their produce worth Rs 60 million. A total of 1,950 households from 10 wards of Triveni rural municipality have been doing ginger farming. 

Each farmer is cultivating two rapines of land for ginger production. Pun further shared that the ginger farming covers 195 hectares of land.

More than four quintals of spicy plant is produced in a ropani of land. Last year, the local level produced total 15.6 metric tons of ginger. It costs Rs 3,800 for a quintal of ginger. The traders reach the ginger fields to purchase the produce, so there is no problem in marketing.

Nar Bahadur Khadka, a ginger farmer from Khumcheri of Triveni-4, said he made Rs 100 thousand income this year with the production and sale of ginger. He has been involving in the commercial farming of ginger for two decades.

Similarly, Kamal Prasad Gharti from Banthakot of Triveni-6 shared that both the production and income were better this year.

He however said a quintal of rhizome planted for the farming used to yield five quintals of ginger, which has now declined to three quintals. It may be because of changes in weather and lack of compost.