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Madhubani News: Makhana farmers in Madhubani traditionally consider one quintal as 3 maunds i.e. 120 kg. Whereas traders give the price per 100 kg only. Chief Vinod told that this tradition has been going on for 35 years.
Madhubani: If you study math or any language, one quintal is considered to mean 100 kilograms. Whether the traders buy or sell the goods, they also give and take the price according to 100 kilos, but in Madhubani district of Bihar, the yield of Makhana is considered to be equal to 3 maunds per quintal of the farmers. That means 1 quintal is considered equal to 120 kg.
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It is said about Makhana that it is not found even in heaven. Actually, it is considered the purest. Its production is highest in Mithilanchal. You will also be shocked to hear the account of the farmers after taking them out of the water. Not only in India, if you ask any book or any mathematician in the world, one quintal means 100 kg, but Makhana traders who do traditional farming. Not one quintal of Makhana, but 3 maunds (120 kg) are considered as quintals.
Let us tell you that the team of Local 18 talked to the farmers doing Makhana farming in Madhubani district. During this time, Chief Vinod, who cultivates Makhana in large quantities, told Local 18 that we have been cultivating Makhana in the traditional way for about 30 to 35 years. Many farmers work under me, but we give Makhana on the basis of quintal, but at the rate of 3 maunds i.e. 1 maund is 40 kg. Where a quintal of 120 kg is considered to be 3 maunds.
Farmers here consider 3 maunds as 1 quintal.
The farmers here say that not just from today, this has been happening forever. Our weight is 120 kg i.e. 3 maunds, but traders give the price to farmers only on the basis of 100 kg. The Local 18 team asked the farmers why they give them 120 kg per quintal weighing 100 kg. In response to this question, the farmers said that this has always been happening. When there were no such weighing machines and other things, Maithili people used to say that hey brother, please give 3 maunds. However, today there are machines, scales and educated people too. But even today the same old accounts of the traditional Makhana farmer are going on.
Actually, Chief Vinod says, ‘The businessman comes to the farm and takes it from us and by popping it, he saves money according to today’s weighing machine. We don’t care about this. My job is farming. Also, they have to be taken out of water, washed thoroughly and sold at the right rate.
