Agriculture became medium to make Sarita’s husband return home

Thakur Prasad Acharya / Myagdi, Jan 8: “The whim to go abroad had started in the village. My husband also went abroad. I alone continued agricultural production. A handsome income started to flow from vegetable farming. My husband returned to the country citing the income that I was making by selling the vegetables, now, we both are engaged in agriculture,” said, farmer Sarita Kumari Sharma. Now, both husband, Tek Narayan Acharya and his wife have become exemplary in the whole village.

Acharya had left the country to go to Dubai for foreign employment. He spent seven years in the foreign land. Acharya is now delighted to be a farmer in his homeland.

The Acharya couple have proved the saying ‘One has to go abroad to earn money’ wrong.

“We have been producing fresh vegetables for the last 22 years. Now, we both enjoy working in the fields and earning well. Even if you go abroad there is hardship, not happiness. So, I made my husband return to his homeland. Now, we both are working in the fields happily. our whole family is happy.

She said that their children are studying in good private colleges in cities because of the money that they are making from agriculture.

“In a grit to make more money, I had gone abroad. There is no respect for your work in a foreign land. I returned with the mindset to put in the same amount of work that I was putting in abroad. My heart was not letting me stay there. Now, there is good income and I have earned the respect of the agricultural profession. We all family are living together with what we have and what we can do,” said the husband of Sharma, Acharya.

They have taken the lease of 10 ropanis of land in the terrain of Salyan. They grow cauliflower, broccoli, potatoes and tomatoes, on their own 15 ropanis of land, and 10 ropanis of leased land. The cauliflower cultivated in five ropanis of land is ready for sale. The Acharya couple are all occupied nowadays to take vegetables to the market.

He said that the cost of Cauliflower is Rs 40 per kg. After that, potatoes, tomatoes and cabbage, will be ready for sale.

Acharya, who has been working persistently as a farmer for the last 12 years, makes Rs 1.2 million to 1.5million by selling vegetables.

Acharya, said, “Rs six-eight lakh is saved after deducting compost, seeds, labor cost. A good return can be made by putting up good hard work. One does not need to go to aboard to just earn money.”

He said that vegetables are taken to Beni, Baglung and even to Pokhara.

He said that the agricultural machines which are received as grant makes the profession mechanization and modern.