Man returning from Iraq making good income from agriculture

By Our Correspondent,Tanahun, Oct. 6: Laxman Kaini of Vyas Municipality-12, Kamalbari went abroad with a desire to earn money after not seeing opportunities at home.

Kaini, who returned home with the idea of running a business in the village rather than working hard abroad, has started earning good income from agricultural business.

Kaini, who worked abroad for 10 years in the Gulf countries and Iraq, returned home and is engaged in modern commercial beekeeping and lemon and banana farming.

He said that he started running beekeeping and lemon and banana farming by investing with the thought to earn good income with less hard work from it.

Commercial agriculture has been practiced from three years ago in seven ropanies of land that were left barren in the village.

The lemon trees of the local variety that bear fruit round the year have grown and flourished in his garden.

It is being cultivated in a modern way by erecting small cement pillars and bamboo and supporting lemon branches.

Kaini said that he started farming by learning methods from YouTube.

He said that he earned around Rs. 100,000 from lemon farming last year and as the plant is growing, he is expected to earn Rs. 200,000 this year.

He said that after two years, he expects to earn Rs. 300,000 per year from lemons.

Kaini informed that honey produced from 40 beehives worth Rs. 200,000 has been sold at the rate of Rs. 1,000 per mana.

The annual income from banana farming is about Rs. 50,000, he said.

Kaini said, “There is no problem of sales, customers have come and taken them from home, because of this, there has been satisfaction in the agricultural occupation.”

He said that one should not leave the village land barren and go abroad.

He said that if the youth pay attention to what is in demand in the market and which crops thrive in the soil, they can earn good income in the country itself.

The government should open industries and give employment to the youth, he said.

“Even if we go abroad, we are supposed to work in the factory, because the leaders do not pay attention to it, the youth have to remain unemployed,” he said.

He said that working in Iraq he saved more than Rs. 100,000 per month, but because of the risk of death, he left his job there and took up agriculture in the home country.

Kaini said that if the youth are provided with skills, loans at concessional rates and the government itself buys and sells them, then the attractiveness of the youth in the agricultural business will be increased and the land will not be barren.