Ginger farming on the wane in Ilam

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ILAM : Cultivation of ginger, one of the main cash crops of Ilam district, is fast on the wane.

The farmers who planted hundreds of maunds of ginger in their paddy fields instead of rice, are worried as their produce began to rot.

Chitra Bahadur Khawas, a resident of Pashupati Nagar-6 is worried as a kind of insect, 'khumle', has been eating up the cash crop.

He said farmers who exported hundreds of maunds of ginger to indian markets are now growing cereal crops.

Govind poudel of Ilam bazar said one has to wait months even to collect one truck of ginger as against the fact that he had been exporting two truck loads of ginger a few years back.

Chief of the agriculture development office ilam Om Prakash Karna said 28, 081 metric tonnes of ginger was produced in 1,970 hectares of land in the last fiscal year.

Farmers have drawn the attention of the concerned body to improve the farming of ginger.

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