Firozabad: There’s a excellent news for the farmers of the district. The farmers right here can get good saplings at price worth by benefiting from the hi-tech nursery Mini Middle of Excellence of the Horticulture Division. Though improved varieties of varied crops shall be ready on this nursery, however this time as a trial, masala and capsicum saplings have been ready. Allow us to inform you that this plant is ready by scientific technique. Chilli crop is produced on a big scale in two blocks of Firozabad.
District Horticulture Officer Sanjeev Kumar Verma mentioned that Firozabad district holds a particular place within the state by way of horticultural farming. The primary crop right here is potato which is grown in the complete district. The world of potato within the district is 55 thousand hectares. After this, the second crop is chilli and the third crop is capsicum, which is especially grown in improvement blocks – Narkhi and Tundla. Other than this, garlic can also be cultivated prominently in Jasrana and Eka improvement blocks.
Greens are produced by many of the farmers within the district, gourd, ridge gourd, bitter gourd, cucumber, melon, watermelon, cauliflower, cabbage, tomato, brinjal, ladyfinger, radish, spinach, fenugreek, soya and coriander and so forth. are additionally produced. Within the district, the world of horticultural crops, particularly banana, apple plum, guava VNR behi species and lemon can also be increasing.
He advised that many of the vegetable producing farmers can not put together vegetable saplings by protected know-how by constructing shade web home and greenhouse. Because of which farmers undergo monetary loss as a result of non-availability of wholesome saplings of improved species of greens at affordable charges. He advised that the gap of the hi-tech nursery seedling manufacturing unit (mini middle of excellence) of the Horticulture Division is barely eight kilometers from Firozabad, which is positioned close to NH-2 and between the Police Line and Vikas Bhawan Headquarters.
The District Horticulture Officer mentioned that the farmers of Firozabad district have been dealing with the issue of getting ready diseased vegetation as a result of extreme rainfall and hailstorm throughout plant manufacturing, as a result of which they weren’t in a position to get the suitable worth of their crop out there as a result of lack of high quality manufacturing of their crop, which resulted in lack of labor and cash.