यहां अफीम के खिलते थे फूल, आज वहां मिठास घोल रहा है गन्ना!, 25 किसानों ने बदल दी गांव की फिजा

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गया में अफीम की खेती होती थी. आज वहां के किसानों पिछले 2 साल से बडे़ स्तर पर गन्ना की खेती की जा रही है.

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00:00We have just reached the area of Biraj, which is a highly affected area of Naxalism.

00:05It lies in the Sohail Thana area.

00:07Earlier, this area used to be farmed by Afeem.

00:10But today, this area is being recognized by the sugarcane juice.

00:14Although, the farmers who had put their hopes on the sugarcane department are not getting the benefits.

00:20But as a main stream, the farmers here have adopted the sugarcane farming.

00:25We had a meeting with the farmers here.

00:29There were 40-50 of us.

00:32At that time, Mr. Bijay Agarwal was with us.

00:35He said that if we work with the sugarcane department, we will get some benefits.

00:40We had prepared a formula for them.

00:44But till now, the government has not made any announcement.

00:47And the farming of Afeem used to take place a long time ago.

00:51We were going to get stuck in that farming.

00:54But Mr. Bijay Agarwal refused.

00:56He said that this is wrong.

00:58Farmers should do sugarcane farming.

01:01You will get benefits from it.

01:03First, we were affected.

01:05We get stuck in some way.

01:08Who is going to look after us?

01:10So, we have stopped farming Afeem in this area.

01:14We have been farming sugarcane for 5-6 years now.

01:17Till now, no announcement has been made.

01:19No unit has been set up here.

01:21If the government pays attention, you will get benefits.

01:23We will concentrate on farming.

01:26This area has already been affected by sugarcane.

01:29You know it.

01:31The government knows it.

01:32Everyone knows it.

01:33Due to the fact that this area is affected by sugarcane,

01:35there were many sources of illegal farming.

01:39At the same time, Afeem was also there.

01:42As soon as the farming of Afeem started here,

01:45we encouraged them to do sugarcane farming.

01:50We turned towards sugarcane instead of farming Afeem.

01:54We wanted to do sugarcane farming.

01:56Today, you can see that I have around 100 acres of sugarcane farming.

02:01What kind of support do you get from the sugarcane department?

02:05What kind of support do you get from the sugarcane department?

02:07When we set up a farmer's group for sugarcane farming,

02:1020 of us sat together and discussed

02:14that we should not do illegal farming.

02:16If we are doing illegal farming,

02:18then the name of the village and society should not be ruined.

02:21The name of the village should be bright.

02:23We thought about sugarcane.

02:25At the same time, we talked to the sugarcane department.

02:27We had a meeting here a couple of times.

02:29They said that they will install a sugarcane unit here.

02:31Your sugarcane will be sold at a high price.

02:33And you will also have facilities to make sugarcane.

02:36But the sugarcane department has not installed anything yet.

02:38And it is on the map that it is here.

02:42Tell us, how did you start sugarcane farming?

02:44What happened before?

02:45Before, we did not have anything.

02:48Before, people used to come and do farming.

02:52Now, they have removed everything.

02:54Our farm has been cut down.

02:56We have not started sugarcane farming.

02:58We have started sugarcane farming.

03:00We are doing it because we get benefits from it.

03:02We get opportunities.

03:04We get training.

03:06We have gone to the people.

03:08If you get benefits, you will get benefits.

03:10If you do not get anything, you will not get anything.

03:12What do you mean by that?

03:14People say that if you do sugarcane farming, you will get money.

03:18You will get opportunities.

03:20If you do not get anything, you will not get opportunities.

03:25If we do anything, we do it for our own benefit.

03:29If we sell it or do something, we will get benefits.

03:34It will increase.

03:35That's why we do it.

03:37Where did you get the idea to do sugarcane farming?

03:39We got the idea to do sugarcane farming from Vijay Agarwal.

03:45He told us about it.

03:47We used to earn and eat.

03:49We did sugarcane farming in one place.

03:52We did it with a lot of farmers.

03:54We got a lot of benefits from it.

03:59Vijay Agarwal came to us from Patna.

04:05We did not do sugarcane farming before.

04:09But then there was a lot of trouble.

04:11To extract the juice of sugarcane.

04:13To make sugarcane sweet.

04:14There was a lot of trouble.

04:16So we stopped farming.

04:19But when we came to Patna, there were 3-4 officers.

04:22They told us to do sugarcane farming.

04:25According to them, we did sugarcane farming in more than 20 acres.

04:31We also have 4 acres.

04:33But now the sugarcane is drying up.

04:36We do not know about the machine.

04:38Vijay Agarwal had informed us about it.

04:40That we take responsibility for it.

04:42We will get the machine from somewhere.

04:44So that you can do it easily.

04:46But nothing has happened yet.

04:48The people here said that they are encouraging this type of farming.

04:52But the government also has to take some steps forward.

04:55For ATV Bharat, I am Satyajit Singh from Gaya.

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