A 45-year-old farmer from Dighali Chapori village of Dhemaji district, Bijoy Lakhi Pame, has been preserving two indigenous varieties of ghost chillies, which have unique pests and adverse climatic condition-resistant features. He has been cultivating the two varieties in his field and earning a good yearly amount.
A week after the state director of agriculture banned the use of an insecticide, monocrotophos, in vegetable and tea plantations, not many are paying heed to it. The insecticide has the potential to affect the nervous system and other organs in the human body, if consumed.
A grand harvest programme of ‘Sali’ paddy using-reaper-cum binder was conducted at Serapbhati, North Lakhimpur on Wednesday by AAU-Zonal Research Station, North Lakhimpur, where the research station.
Recurring floods, changing weather patterns, untimely rains and construction debris from roads, highways and bridges depositing in rivers and farmland, have impacted agriculture in the area, the main livelihood of the local Mising tribe.