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Why Pithoragarh Organic Sugarcane District Not Dang, Gujarat
Gandhinagar, 19 April 2022
Farmers have started organic farming of sugarcane. So now jaggery and sugar can also be found organic. But since no village or taluka in Gujarat has been declared for sugarcane, its market is not available cluster wise.
Govindbhai Vaghasia, a 100-acre farmer living in Surat, Gujarat, sends sugarcane to the US and Australia. With organic farming, sugarcane production has increased from 8 to 10 tonnes. They make 120 kg of jaggery out of 1000 kg.
He has developed his own brand of Jaggery since 11 years under the guidance of Navsari Agricultural University. A cola-making round works for 350 people. Organic sugarcane is grown on 22 acres out of 100 acres of land and sells 11,000 kg of jaggery.
The Indian Council of Agricultural Research-Sugarcane Breeding Institute has helped farmers grow organic sugarcane and market jaggery. Coimbatore is beneficial in producing golden yellow color and high quality jaggery. Cow dung with organic manure yields 82.65 tonnes of sugarcane per acre. In which 10.20 tonnes of jaggery was produced.
3 years ago 500 farmers were trained by Narmada Sugar Mill.
Navsari
Nipul Thakor Patel, an organic farmer in Junadiva, Navdari, planted more than 25 percent of the crop in 12 acres.
Jamnagar
Ashok Jobanputra, a farmer of Pipli village, has planted sugarcane in 20 Vigha. Cow urine and cow dung are used as manure. Makes organic jaggery.
modasa
Hari Arjan Patel, a farmer of Gadda Kampa village of Modasa in Aravalli district, has produced jaggery from organic sugarcane in 1 acre. Drip irrigation in sugarcane. Cow urine, dung, jaggery, bean flour are used in making anesthesia.
Rajkot
Gir sugarcane is supplied by Navrang Natural Club at 55-60 per kg. Girni
jetpur
A farmer from Akala village of Jetpur cultivates sugarcane, turmeric, mug, gram and sunflower by doing organic farming based on cow. Uses manure, cow urine, sterilization, manure, milk, sterilization.
interest
You can get a glass of 250 ml sugarcane juice for Rs 250 on the way to Amin Park in Rajkot.
Gir Somnath
Ranabhai Ram of Kantala Gir village of 40 acres of land produces 20,000 kg of jaggery by cultivating sugarcane under organic farming from Jeevamrit.
backward gujarat
22 sugar mills produced 13.69 lakh tonnes of sugar 12 years ago. Which has come down continuously to just 1 million tonnes. This trend has been going on for the last 20 years. Gujarat is backward in sugar production by producing sugarcane. Production in the country is increasing at the rate of 30 percent per annum, but due to anti-farmer policies, production is decreasing in Gujarat. Sugar mills are being closed. Now not a single sugar mill is allowed in Saurashtra.
Himalaya
Uttarakhand is a mountainous state in the Himalayas, with snow, valleys, alpine meadows, forests, waterfalls, perennial rivers, glaciers, and the international border of Nepal and Tibet. Pithoragarh district having an area of 2800 square miles at an altitude of 1700 meters has been identified as an organic sugarcane crop. Old varieties of sugarcane have been grown here for years. Knowing Narendra’s words in this regard, the Cane and Sugar Commissioner has declared the entire district as a living sugarcane district.
Due to Narendra Mehra, farmer of Pahari Malladewala village, now the entire district has been declared for organic sugarcane. Jai Prakash Joshi has returned to his village after working as an engineer in Mumbai for 20 years.
No district has been declared for such sugarcane in Gujarat. Sugarcane is cultivated in Udham Singh Nagar, Haridwar, Nainital.
Gol used to go to Tibet from here. were given to kings. When the journey of Kailash Mansarovar started from this village, people used to take jaggery instead of salt. Now the farmers here are being taught a new method of making jaggery by adding lemon, ginger, Pahari Madua. This is likely to happen in Dang, Gujarat.
Export to 5 countries
A young electronics engineer from Tajpur in Panipat district has left his job as a web developer in Chandigarh and Gurugram to grow sugarcane in 25 acres. Out of which sugar is made in jaggery and sugar mill at Rs 50 per kg. The Jag ships to 10 states and 5 countries, including the United States and Germany.
