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| Vegetable cultivation suffers due to scarcity of water | | | Early Times Report
Budgam, May 26: Located at a distance of around 15 kms from Srinagar, Bugam Batpora , a village of around 500 souls in central Kashmir's Budgam district is Kashmir's vegetable village which has the distinction of exporting vegetables not only to various districts of state and Jammu but vegetables from this village are exported to many North Indian states of the country which includes Delhi , Haryana and Uttar Pradesh as well . Bugam Batpora and its adjoining villages have fertile land but due to scarcity water and other irrigation facilities we were not able to cultivate vegetables etc but after the Marvel Lift Irrigation project was commissioned in late 80's we are now able to grow any kind of vegetables in our village says Ghulam Ahmad Bhat a local farmer. Today an average family earns minimum one lack rupees per annum from the vegetable farming and the whole village is into this farming Bhat added. Local residents have been demanding that Government must establish a vegetable mandi in the area which will directly benefit the local farmers not only from Bugam Batpora but from other adjoining villages as well . Villagers allege that Government has hardly bothered about Bugam Batpora and other areas of Chadoora which have a great potential for vegetable farming . Bugam Batpora residents shifted towards vegetable farming around two decades back and this has resulted into sharp increase in per capita income of the people associated with vegetable farming. Around 800 hectares of land in this village is under cultivation of various kinds of vegetables which includes cauliflower, raddish , turnip , onion , potato , carrot , knolkhol , tomato etc. |
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