Turmeric farmers pinned lot of hopes on high price
this time though the yield is normal. Farmers say they will get profits only if
they get Rs 12,000 per quintal. Farmers are busy in digging turmeric in the
Nirmal division and will boil later.
Farmer Dharawath Motiram of Kalva thanda said ‘Last
time they sold turmeric for Rs 8,000 per quintal but we have invested lot of
money in cultivation of turmeric this time and the cost of production has
increased abnormally and they meet their expenditure and get marginal profits
only when there will be Rs 12,000 price for turmeric’.
He said they have spent Rs 30,000 on dumping block
soil brought from tanks and Rs 20,000 for organic fertilizers such cow dung to
improve the fertility of the soil in addition to the expenditure towards
chemical fertilizers, labour charges.
It is expected that an on an average farmers will
get 15 quintals turmeric per acre this seasons where irrigation water
facilities is available.
Cultivation of turmeric requires lot of labor and
subsequently in digging turmeric and boiling the same before selling in the
market.
Most of the farmers in Nirmal division started
turmeric cultivation since the price went up to Rs 17,000 four years ago as
they were under impression that they will get more profits if they cultivate
turmeric but there was drastic fall in the turmeric prices in het open market
in the subsequent years.
Turmeric cultivated in 7,253 hectares in last Kharif
in the district and among them nearly 6,000 hectares in Nirmal division alone
where it was a major commercial crop. The cultivation of the turmeric is low in
Adilabad and Mancherial divisions while high in Mamada, Laxmanchanda, Nirmal,
Dilawarpur and Sarangapur mandals in the Nirmal division.
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