Pomelo is very large citrus fruit of botanical name Citrus maxima. It is very sweet taste after ripening . Have you ever tried a honey pomelo ? This large citrus fruit can be found in the produce section from late fall to early spring. Here's more about this tasty unique citrus fruit.The fruit is used in many festive celebrations throughout Southeast Asia. After a Captain Shaddock of an East India Company ship introduced it to Barbados, the fruit was called "shaddock" in English. The fruit is also known as jabong in Hawaii and jambola in varieties of English spoken in South Asia. The etymology of the word "pomelo" is uncertain. It may be an alteration of "pompelmoes", in Tamil pomelo are called pampa limasu, which means "big citrus". The name was adopted by the Portuguese as pomposos limoes and then by the Dutch as pompelmoes. Typically, the fruit is pale green to yellow when ripe, with sweet white ( or, more rarely , pink or red) fle...
Supporting rural livelihoods and climate change adaptation in the Himalayas (Himalayas) initiative, three village development committees (VDCs) in the district are working in Bagaha, Rauta and Sauna to develop climate resilient vegetation value chains. In these VDCs, farmers are growing vegetables of cauliflower, cabbage, tomatoes, green chillies, chilies, radishes and gourd varieties. "Most of us grow enough vegetables to eat and sell in the market," Ghimire said. The ability to do so has improved the socio-economic conditions of the rural people of Udaipur.
In a pilot village of Rauta with farmer community officer Moti Man Limbu
The pilot sites are all located along the Everest-Saptari route of the Koshi Basin. They have been strategically selected for upstream-downstream linkage between them. While Bagaha is situated in the lower belt of the country, Ruta is located in the middle belt and Saun in the upper belt. Vegetables grown in these VDCs benefit from seasonal benefits related to both plains and mountains. Because the Everest-Saptari route is not small and enjoys road connectivity, vegetable farmers and traders of Udaipur can sell their produce in the mountains of Solukhumbu as well as in the plains. Villagers at the Himalika Pilot sites in the district are beginning to realize that if they grow vegetables commercially, they can reach far-flung markets and want to completely stop importing vegetables from the plains.
However, water has always been a major concern in Udaipur. Research papers and evaluation reports suggest that groundwater is receding and water scarcity is a problem with the generation of local people. Floods occur during the monsoon and drought during the dry season. This has historically been the reason behind the decline of farming in the district, in which families worked to send their male members to the Gulf or Malaysia and to send them back home. As a partner, a national NGO, with the Center for Environment and Agriculture Policy Research, Extension and Development (CEAPRED), Himalika has introduced climate smart technologies and practices in vegetable farming in the region. Climate smart interventions that are water smart, soil / nutrient smart, weather / crop smart, energy smart, knowledge smart and gender smart were introduced in the district in 2015.
Demonstrations and hands-on training sessions helped farmers understand and implement concepts such as the selection of crop varieties to suit recent weather trends; Maintenance of soil health with correct use of manure, biochar (charcoal based urine fertilizer) and organic fertilizers; Use of simple and inexpensive water harvesting / management techniques such as plastic ponds, drip irrigation and wastewater management; And development of trenches and lanes. Vegetable growing farmers in the district have also received training on enterprise development and have their own business plans. They have formed cooperative societies for the mass marketing of their vegetables. Additionally, many women farmers are wishing to register as vegetable entrepreneurs.
At a pilot site in Bagaha with farmer community officer Lal Bahu Shah
Krishna Bahadur Magar, a farmer from Rauta, says, “I have six kathas of land. This year I earned around four lakh rupees by selling vegetables. I would never have imagined this to be possible before. Enterprise development and business planning training have helped us understand the market and the benefits of vegetable cultivation. "Another farmer of the same VDC, Urmila Khadka, says," I am now a bread-making woman for my family and can actually invest money sent to my husband from abroad in our vegetable business. "She, along with other women in the district, has started identifying herself as a vegetable entrepreneur and takes great pride in her work. "My husband is returning home because the vegetable business generates enough income for us so that we can send our children to good schools and colleges," Khadka says.
Hari Bahadur Magar of Rauta worked in Qatar and Malaysia before he finally found security in vegetable cultivation at home. “Working abroad is difficult and money is not always good. When I returned home two years ago and saw that my fellow villagers had set up good businesses based on vegetable farming with the help of intervention from the Himalika project, I decided to give it a try. I have a good life now and a good income. It is better to do something close to home and family than to stay away from home on foreign soil.
Out of 549 farmers associated with the Himalika vegetable value chain in Udaipur, 64 men and 115 women have entrepreneurial plans to expand their vegetable farms to large-scale commercial farms. Already, there are nine farmer groups in each of the three pilot sites running as cooperative and in the process of being registered. Plans are on to market and sell vegetables in Udaipur under the brand name HIMALICA-Hare Products from Pahar
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