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Veges on the menu Growing vegetables is a fairly recent novelty for farmers in Banswara Area Development Programme (ADP). However, they have quickly discovered how profitable it can be.
Although people planted onion, garlic, chillies, eggplants and okra along the sides of their cereal crops, there was a lack of green leafy vegetables. Together with the use of low quality seeds, these factors led to chronic food shortages and an inadequate diet. World Vision realised that providing the community with a more water-efficient means of irrigation would enable farmers to cultivate the land, which was dependent on rainwater, and supplying high quality seeds would improve production of cash crops. Through the Banswara Watershed Management Project, World Vision, with financial assistance from the New Zealand Government, has been working to achieve these and other interrelated objectives. Farmers participating in the project received seed kits containing ten types of seasonal vegetable seeds sufficient for planting a one-acre plot (0.4 hectares). Bada Chokha is one of the farmers who have successfully made the transition to growing vegetables as a cash crop under this project. His plot of land measures barely 12 square metres, but he managed to earn approximately NZ$115 in one month from vegetable sales. So valuable did Bada’s vegetable garden become to him that he built a bamboo shelter on his field so he could watch over his crops at night, protecting them from cattle and stray animals. |
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