Peppermint Oil Plant: Farmers are becoming rich not only by farming but also with the help of technology
Peppermint Oil Plant: With the aid of technology, farmers are now getting wealthy in addition to making a living from farming. The same thing has been accomplished by a Chhatarpur farmer. In the community itself, the farmer has established an oil extraction facility. This isn’t your typical plant, either. Instead, the farmer makes a profit of two to three lakh rupees while working in this facility for just one and a half months of the year.
Farmers benefit from growing peppermint, according to farmer Rammilan Patel, who spoke to the media. The weather has little impact on agricultural farming, even if crops like urad, moong, and sesame must withstand the worst of it. Peppermint is crushed after being harvested from the fields, a process that takes time. My peppermint crushing facility is now open. where peppermint is brought by several farms.
This is the price of establishing a factory.
“I have two plants set up,” the farmer remarked. It cost Rs 3.5 lakh to build up both of these plants when I did it. But the government also assists with the plant’s setup. However, I had secured funding from several sources and refrained from taking out a loan to establish the factory.
This amount of money
According to the farmer, most farmers come to us to have peppermint crushed since not all of them have a plant for that purpose. The cost of crushing one liter in our facility is between fifty and sixty rupees. Throughout the year, the plant only operates for around one and a half months. However, we are not free these days, not even for a short time. Day and night, the facility operates. We make enough money in just 1.5 months to last the whole year. We easily make two to three lakhs after subtracting the expenditures.
This is the method used to extract oil.
According to Rammilan, peppermint is placed in a tank inside the plant. It is covered with a lid. There is a ground-level water filling tank underneath this one. It holds around four drums of water. The peppermint waste below lights the fire, and the water and oil go through the pipe to the other tank because of the water’s steam.
A huge profit in only one bigha
According to Rammilan, this plant helps the farmer just as much as it does us. Due to the fact that the farmer makes ten thousand rupees in one bigha while incurring three thousand rupees in expenses. One bigha yields 13 to 15 liters of oil. One liter of peppermint oil costs between 900 and 1,000 rupees at the moment.
