Modern Farming Tips: These two brothers left traditional farming and started vegetable farming, changed their fate
Modern Farming Tips: Farmers are adopting modern practices in conjunction with advancements in technology. They are adding new dimensions to farming and modernizing their farms. Two farmer brothers from a small village in Bhilwara have done something similar. In traditional farming, farmers used to work hard all day and sometimes could not even recover the cost. But now farmers are adopting new methods, due to which they are earning a lot of money rapidly. These two farmer brothers from Sawaipur town earn 4 to 5 lakh rupees annually by growing vegetables on half a bigha of land. Vegetables grown with fresh water and organic manure have a different taste, so people in the city wait for them.
We use tubewells for irrigation
According to farmer brothers Kalu and Satyanarayan Mali, they added four trolleys of local manure and plowed their ten biswa fields three-four times with a tractor. Thereafter, they plowed once again and made beds at a distance of one foot from each other. They sowed ladyfinger and bottle gourd seeds in these prepared beds at a distance of one foot and ten feet, respectively. The pumpkin seeds were planted ten feet apart along the field’s edge.
On one biswa of land, cluster bean seeds were sown separately. After weeding these vegetables three to four times, ladyfinger starts growing in about 45–50 days, giving a supply of four months. Ten biswa fields produce vegetables worth Rs 3,000 per day for four months, giving an annual income of Rs 4,000 to Rs 5,000. Satyanarayan Mali advises irrigating these vegetables once a day. We use the electricity generated from the solar plant installed on the field to irrigate the tubewell located 500 meters away.
People come to learn the method
According to Satyanarayan Mali, earlier he used to grow wheat and mustard in the old way, but on the advice of the Agriculture Department, he started growing vegetables using modern technology. After he gained more fame, villagers from the surrounding area began visiting him to learn agricultural methods.
