India: Bumper harvest of veggies grown on leased land in Thiruvananthapuram limits
This time the self-help group has come up with tapioca, banana and 12 varieties of traditional vegetables in a 4.75 acre plot spread around four plots at Madathunada
By Cynthia Chandran
New India Express
Aug 23, 2020
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“We have also arranged a temporary outlet at the site where the public can buy the yields. The remaining lot of vegetables’ harvest will be taking place later. Tapioca and plantain cultivation are growing in 2.5 acres of private land which we have taken on lease”, Prakash told The New Indian Express. The vegetable farming revolution in the heart of the city had been kicked off under the aegis of Pathirapally BJP ward councillor V Krishnankutty Nair.
In fact, the members in the group take turns to tend to the vegetable farming for a few hours in the morning and evening as all of them are engaged in other regular jobs. It was under this Thiruvonam Organic Karshaka Sangham which saw the evolution of Karshika Karma Sena attached to Kudapanakunnu Krishi Bhavan which has since been emulated across the state.
“During 2010, we had harvested vegetable farming at a whopping five-acre area on lease. But later on we did not get that much land to go for vegetable farming. Fortunately, during this lockdown we still managed to enter into vegetable farming in four plots on lease where we are expecting a bumper harvest”, said Krishnankutty Nair, who is also the joint secretary of Kudapanakunnu Karshika Karma Sena.
