Question

What are the various types of crops grown in village Palampur?

Answer 1

In Palampur, all land is cultivated and no land is left idle. Farmers grow three different crops in a year with the help of well-developed system of irrigation and electricity facility:

(i) During the rainy season (kharif) farmers grow jowar and bajra. These plants are used as cattle feed.

(ii) It is followed by cultivation of potato between October and December.

(iii) In the winter season (rabi), fields are sown with wheat. The wheat produced is used for farmer's family and to sell the surplus wheat at the market at Raiganj.

(iv) Sugar cane is harvested once every year. Sugarcane, in its raw form, or as jaggery, is sold to traders in Shahpur.