Wheat sown in fertile floodplains seen filling up Sindh granaries
Business
February 21, 2021
HYDERABAD: Harvest of early sown wheat has kicked off in flood-affected areas of Umerkot, Kunri, and parts of Tharparkar and Mirpurkhas districts and local farmers are betting on bountiful yields that will cover their losses to a good deal.
Being advanced in cultivation of all crops, the growers in these areas had sown wheat in mid-October and early November. Now the crop is ready for reaping in the early cultivated pieces of lands. Tractor-driven threshing machines can now be seen cleaning wheat in the areas near Nao Kot, Jhuddo, and Roshanabad.
Business
December 31, 2020
HYDERABAD: Livestock farmers in rain-affected Nao Kot and Kaloi areas in Tharparkar have been facing an uncertain situation due to the spread of disease and death in both big and small animals.
Farmers generally think it had to do with the growth of toxic plants, which sprung up after rainwater receded from the flooded grazing fields.
However, private veterinary practitioners detected bacterial infections in the animals, which they attribute to consumption of stagnant flood water. The aspect of the recent cold wave as well as poor diet should not be ignored either.
Ghulam Hussain Khaskheli, a farmer of village Juma Khan Khaskheli, Taluka Kaloi, said, “I have lost 12 sheep, dying one after another, a few days back.”
Thari women entrepreneurs hope for a better new year
Business
December 24, 2020
HYDERABAD: Moolan Bai, once a peasant woman, working with the men in her family to cultivate crops, now runs a cloth shop at her makeshift hut in the desert village Mithrio in Tharparkar district. She has also motivated her young son to stitch dresses, which she puts on display at the home-shop for sale.
She provides unstitched cloth and other materials to him and he designs dresses to attract clients.
After this new initiative, Moolan Bai is among several peasant women who feel financially safer. While the men support women in their work, they also grow crops for domestic consumption as well as for animal fodder.