Maize cultivation declines in Zhemgang

Maize cultivation declines in Zhemgang

Lhakpa Quendren  Panbang – With farmers in Zhemgang increasingly opting for profitable crops like cardamom, mandarin orange, ginger, avocado, and areca nut, Zhemgang’s maize cultivation has been falling over the years. The farmers, once cultivating maize on thousands of acres, are now cultivating to a mere hundred acres due to challenges posed by wild boars, monkeys, and birds. Bagala, 77, from Goshing, said that in the old days, a majority of t…