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Arunachal: Thriving Stevia rays of hope for opium grower in Lohit

About 12 families under an alternative Livelihood to opium affected farmers reaped their first harvest of Stevia.

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Whooping produce of 661 Kgs of Stevia known as wonder herb at the township bring cheer to the opium affected families.

About 12 families under an alternative Livelihood to opium affected farmers reaped their first harvest of Stevia out of 40 (forty) beneficiaries which they shown in the last two months back and received Rs 99,150/- (Ninety Nine thousands one hundred fifty only).

One of the beneficiaries, Bamsuli Tayang the highest producer (127 Kg) earns Rs 19050/- in her first harvest and is delighted. “Stevia farming is simple and lucrative and has short gestation period. The dept has facilitated everything in our effort. This could be the best crop alternative to opium which our society is cursed”, expresses Tayang.

RN Megeji District Horticulture Officer Lohit said the farmers were given every necessary back up including Stevia and Lemon seedling, barbed wire, fencing post, Vermi-compose manure, tolls and equipments and cash assistance of Rs 76000/- each to 40 farmers distributed through Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) mode.  This is the first harvest where farmer returns were more than their expectation. Our officials and staffs are doing hard to facilitate technical guidance to the growers, the DHO says.

Informing the practical ground reports, HDO S Rehman said we adopted Munching technique to avoid unwanted weeds resulting bumper harvest. We constantly supported with all inputs to the grower to make this project successful, reveals the HDO.

Meanwhile, the Lohit Horticulture Dept also signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Deboban Bio Agri -Tech Bokakhat Assam for marketing of the production.

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