Success Story: Mithilesh is earning bumper profits by growing cash paddy crop in her fields
Success Story: As circumstances change, women in the district are now successfully managing household duties in addition to working side by side with men to achieve in the workforce and on the farm. At this time, the district’s pioneering female farmer, Mithilesh, is making money from her fields where she grows cash paddy crops.
New trials and increased profits
The farmers of Farrukhabad are always eager to try out new agricultural techniques. In addition to conventional farming, farmers are also giving cash crops more attention, which has opened up new revenue streams. The farmers here are making a good living from farming at this time. They are making a nice living at a reasonable cost since they are cultivating rice grain in their farms. Two thousand rupees is the price per bigha. Simultaneously, the growers of Ridge gourd claim that since they have been raising this product consistently for numerous decades, they have never lost money and have only made millions of rupees.
The tale of Mithilesh’s experience
According to progressive woman farmer Mithilesh, she comes from a middle-class household and has been farming since she was a little kid. She continues to earn a comfortable living from farming. She claims that so far, this crop has not caused her any losses and has instead generated eight times more profit than it has cost. Typically, a bigha costs between two and three thousand rupees. When the crop is ripe, the paddy is sold first, and the plants that emerge are then used to make organic fertilizer and feed.
Agriculture technique
The farmer’s wife said that she levels the land well and creates beds there before anything else. Five plants are then positioned every meter after that. Irrigation is completed on schedule after this. After that, the plants get frequent irrigations as they begin to grow. This paddy matures in ninety days, at which point it is harvested, removed from the plant, and sold in the market. She then applies it to the field as green manure after removing it from the plants. These plants are also used by certain farmers as animal feed.
The resolve of a female farmer
According to Mithilesh, a woman farmer, she has been farming consistently for the last four years. She claims that because her spouse is unable to work in the fields, she has taken up farming as a side job in addition to taking care of the home. She has now planted paddy crops in her farms. She is now tending to the field’s irrigation and fertilization needs. She also does all of the agricultural labor alone in addition to this.