Farmers’ produce gets market due to tightening of import of Indian vegetables

लगानी न्यूज

४ भाद्र २०८३, बिहीबार ११:१६August 20, 2026

. Farmers in Ranjha district have been attracted to commercial vegetable farming after they started getting good price in the market. Sujita Sharma, acting chief agriculture extension officer at Agriculture Knowledge Centre, Banke, said that farmers who were involved in subsistence farming in the past have now turned to vegetable farming commercially.

According to him, around TAG_OPEN_div_30 13 metric tonnes of vegetables are produced annually in 6,352 hectares of land in Banke. The Agriculture Knowledge Centre has distributed seeds of winter vegetables like bottle gourd, bitter gourd, bitter gourd and other vegetables to 1,350 farmers under the Women and Children Nutrition Improvement Programme.

BANKE: Vegetables produced by farmers in Banke district have started selling vegetables at a good price after the customs imposed strict customs on vegetables imported from India.TAG_OPEN_div_28 Sharma said that the attraction of farmers towards vegetable farming as a cash crop has increased in recent period.

In Banke district, farmers have been engaged in commercial vegetable farming in different villages of Duduwa Rural Municipality-6, Himiniya, Nepalgunj Sub-Metropolitan City-14, Bhawaniyapur of 17 Paraspur, 19 Basudevpur, 21 Puraini and 22 Puraina.TAG_OPEN_div_26

Gopi Yadav, a farmer of Nepalgunj-19, said that many farmers in the village have now started vegetable farming.TAG_OPEN_div_24 “Earlier, one had to travel long distances to sell vegetables, but now the number of farmers involved in vegetable farming in the village has increased after they started selling vegetables at good prices,” he said.

Local farmers, who could not compete with the cheap vegetables imported from India, are now getting good prices for their produce.TAG_OPEN_div_22 Motisara Thapa Chhetri, chairperson of the Ranitalau Agriculture Produce Market Board of Directors of Nepalgunj, said that the products produced by the farmers of Banke district have got market after the enforcement of customs on vegetables imported from India.

According to him, vegetables produced in Banke are now being supplied to the Ranitalu market of Nepalgunj.TAG_OPEN_div_20 The domestic agricultural products have got market due to the provision of customs duty on vegetables imported from India. Traders have reduced the import of agricultural products from India as it would be costlier to import agricultural products by paying customs duty.

At present, the market of Nepalgunj is filled with commercially grown crops like cauliflower, cabbage, bottle gourd, cucumber, beans, tomato, chillies and other agricultural products produced commercially by the farmers of Banke.TAG_OPEN_div_18 Jalaluddin Bagwan, a farmer of Puraina village in Nepalgunj Sub-Metropolitan City-21, said that he got good price for his vegetables after the decrease in import.

He said that in the past, the market was sold at a cheap price even when it was taken to the market, but now it is being sold at a good price from the farm.TAG_OPEN_div_16