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Lafa Saag Farming Tips: If you want to avoid serious diseases during winter, then eat greens. Farmers of Araria are using it as a source of food as well as income. Farmers are earning Rs 7 lakh from 7 acres. Therefore, definitely eat vegetables during the cold season. According to medical science, greens are a panacea for diseases including heart and cancer. It is also a source of income.
Araria: With changing times, farmers are doing new experiments every day in farming. As times are changing in Araria, farmers are also adopting new methods of farming. Now apart from traditional farming, they are also focusing on other types of farming. So that their income can increase. Due to excessive dependence on traditional crops, farmers sometimes have to face difficulties. This is the reason why farmers are now emphasizing on the cultivation of vegetables along with traditional farming. These include gourd, pumpkin, cucumber, shrimp, greens, red greens, tomato, cauliflower etc. Cultivation of Lafa Saag can prove to be very beneficial for the farmers. Because its demand is very high in the market. With this, farmers can earn profits worth lakhs of rupees.
More profit with less cost and less effort
Farmer Bablu Kumar, resident of Bishtauria Panchayat of the district, cultivates Lafa Saag on half an acre of land. He told that no special effort is required to grow this crop. He just sprinkles the seeds. Apart from this, there is no need to do much in this crop. He told that the farmers here earn good income from the cultivation of Lafa Saag.
Get plenty of vitamins and nutrients
In the winter season, people can easily get Lafa greens in the market. If you know the benefits of beneficial greens then you will definitely want to buy and eat this greens. Farmer Bablu Kumar told in conversation with Local 18 that if we talk about Lafa Saag then it is very good. All nutrients, mineral salts and vitamins are found in abundance in it. Vitamins like iron, calcium, magnesium, folic acid are found in it. When such vitamins are found, it is obvious that it will be very beneficial for our body.
Bablu Kumar, a farmer from Araria district, told Local 18 that when these Lafa Saag are ready, they go to Raniganj market and sell them in the vegetable market. He told that initially these Lafa Saag are sold at around Rs 50-60 per kg. He told that currently it is sold at Rs 30 per kg. He told that apart from this, he cultivates maize on his 7 acres of land. He told that he earns an income of about Rs 7 lakh in a season from the cultivation of Lafa Saag on 7 acres of land.
