Farmers earn 5 million rupees from watermelon sales

Kathmandu - Farmers in Khuttedangi in ward no. 9 of Mechinagar municipality have earned Rs. 5 million from the sale of water melon during the lockdown. The farmers here have started growing water melon in their maize fields, against the traditional way of growing the juicy fruit only in the river beds.

Since last year, the farmers here have been following lead farmer Dilli Prasad Upetri who has been growing water melons in paddy and maize fields. Upreti also made an income of Rs. 1.5 million from water melon sales this year. Almost every farmer household in his locality earned between one to ten lakhs from water melon farming.