Damauli. Kalpana Gauli, a resident of Damauli of Byas Municipality-2 in Tanahun district, has been cultivating dragonfruit commercially. She has cultivated siundi fruit at Dhodeni of Byas municipality-5.

After 16 years of teaching and 15 years of boutique profession, Gauli has been attracted to agriculture for the last three years. She has been cultivating dragonfruit commercially while her mother Ambe is a supernatural agricultural farm. She said she has been cultivating nine ropanis of land on lease for 20 years. According to him, Rs 15 million has been spent on the purchase of saplings, preparation of gardens and other infrastructures.

Out of nine ropanis, seven ropanis of land have been cultivated. According to Gauli, necessary structures have been constructed on the remaining land. Last year, the farm earned Rs 2 million from the sale of siundiphal, gittha, sisno, pindalu, masyaura and seasonal vegetables. This time, she said, rs 850,000 has already been earned by bringing the fourth chimal dragon to the market. Gauli feels that there is no problem in the market for the sale of dragons.

She said, “I have been selling siundiphal produced here in a car in Damauli market. Similarly, the demand for it is high in the haat bazaar in Abukhaireni every Friday, there is no market problem. Up to 300 kg of siundi fruit is sold in the haat bazaar of Abukhaireni.

Traders of Damauli market have also developed a feeling that they should sell locally produced siundi fruit, he added. “Traders have said that locally produced products should be encouraged rather than those coming from outside the district,” she said. It has also encouraged me towards this. ’

According to him, although he was thinking of cultivating maiti’s land at Jhaputar of Rishing rural municipality-1, he had taken the land on rent in Dhodeni due to water problem. She has installed dragons on 525 poles buried on seven ropanis of land after importing brinjal from India. Warehouses, cold rooms with AC, guardhouses and view towers have been constructed for garden observation.

Chemical fertilizers are not used in the fruit. For this, organic manure is used, gauli said.