Ginger Crop Fetches Best Price in 10 Years

Kanive, Jul. 5: This time, the ginger crop is getting better price in the market and the growers are happy. The current market price of Rs. 11,000 will be applicable to the ginger crop that farmers took last time and they will also make some profit.

This price will not be sweet for the ginger growers who took this year.

Because the ginger sown in the month of March has not yet yielded a harvest.

In addition, since the rainfall has also decreased this time, it will take another three months for the ginger to grow.

Fortunately, if the current price remains in the market for the next three months, it is not surprising that the life of ginger growers will be golden.

That is, the farmers who took ginger crop for the last three to four years were facing huge losses due to not getting good prices in the market.

The price of ginger seen from the end of June to the first week of July will benefit the old ginger farmers who have not harvested it in the field and have kept it.

Farmers' happiness has doubled

The excellent price of the ginger crop that has increased in the international market has naturally lifted the hearts and minds of ginger growers.

Farmers who had sown in March and April of last year had harvested ginger due to the deadly virus that had struck last time.

But some capitalist growers had not only saved the ginger crop by pouring money into the control of the disease that affected the crop, but were also in search of a better price by covering the ginger with soil again in the ground. Now that price and those golden days have come. As the saying goes, "When the wind blows, you blow," it would be better to harvest the ginger crop that you have without further ado, at the best price of Rs. 10,000 in the market.

Yield reduced by the sun

Unfortunately, the ginger crop under the ground was reduced due to the terrible sun that scorched the land in the months of February, March, and April. The ginger yield that was 300 to 350 bags per acre at that time has been limited to only one hundred to one hundred and fifty bags after a year. Due to this, since the crop and price are both in line, the high price in the market now is not so much sugar for the ginger growers of the past.

Now, for the ginger growers who sowed in the months of March-April, the new ginger price in the market is now four to five thousand rupees, and if it lasts for the next three months, the growers will really benefit. However, now the harvest of diseased ginger crop is completely declining.

It is doubtful that only 40 to 50 bags of crop will be obtained per acre.

If the market price is estimated at Rs 5000, then half of the money spent on the crop cannot fill the pockets of the farmers. Therefore, if the ginger crop they have grown has been at least five to six months, the current price will hold the farmer's hand and lead him to the next time. However, how long will this best market price last? This is the question that many farmers are afraid of.

Cost of Rs 4.50 lakh per acre

It costs Rs 4.50 lakh to Rs 5 lakh to harvest ginger in one acre of field for a period of six to eight months. Only the wealthy can afford to grow ginger because it costs Rs 5 lakh per acre to buy seeds, plowing, organic manure, chicken manure, fertilizer, weed killer, insecticide, soil amendment, weeding, sowing and harvesting. But the current market price of ginger is of no benefit to the growers.

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