Bundelkhand farmers have lost interest in soybean cultivation

Hamirpur, July 17 (HS). Farmers of Bundelkhand have now lost interest in soybean cultivation. Once upon a time, farmers used to cultivate it on a large scale but now farmers are not liking soybean cultivation. That is why this year the graph of soybean cultivation has come down to a very low level.

Apart from Hamirpur, Mahoba, Banda and Chitrakoot of Bundelkhand, lakhs of farmers do farming in the surrounding rural areas. In traditional farming, farmers have to suffer huge losses every year due to natural calamities, that is why farmers have turned towards crops that give huge profits at low cost. A few decades ago, farmers used to cultivate sesame, groundnut and soybean in oilseeds on the land of Bundelkhand, but now farmers have become disillusioned with soybean cultivation. This year, the government has increased the target of Kharif crops considerably compared to last year. In the four districts of Chitrakoot Dham Banda division of Bundelkhand, jowar is being sown in more than 97 thousand hectares, while farmers have sown millet in more than 16 thousand hectares, paddy in more than seven thousand hectares, urad in more than 85 thousand hectares. Apart from this, moong has been sown in more than two thousand hectares.

The area under soybean cultivation is decreasing every year in Bundelkhand region. This time farmers are not showing any enthusiasm for its cultivation. Hamirpur's Deputy Director of Agriculture Harishchandra Bhargava said that last year in Kharif, farmers had cultivated soybean in 1199 hectares of area but this time farmers have sown it in only 271 hectares of area. Farmers are now getting disillusioned with soybean cultivation in the entire Chitrakoot Dham Banda division of Bundelkhand.

Deputy Director Agriculture told that in Bundelkhand soybean is cultivated in very less area. Farmers are now taking more interest in crops which give huge profits. This year in Hamirpur district, farmers are cultivating soybean in only seven hectares area whereas in Mahoba, farmers have sown soybean in maximum two hundred hectares. In Banda, soybean crop has been sown in 59 hectares whereas in Chitrakoot, farmers are cultivating soybean in only five hectares.