{"id":51650,"date":"2024-10-25T13:29:21","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T07:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/?p=51650"},"modified":"2024-10-25T13:30:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T07:45:24","slug":"farmers-using-technology-to-boost-income","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/2024\/10\/25\/farmers-using-technology-to-boost-income\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers using technology to boost income"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kanchanpur:<\/strong> The use of technology in farming has gradually increased in Belauri and other areas in the district of Kanchanpur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Farmers have started using tractors, mini-tillers and power tillers instead of oxen and he-buffaloes to plow the fields for traditional farming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Likewise, the local communities have made their life easier by technology for crop harvesting and grinding too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of late, farmers have used reapers, cutters, combined harvesters and other technology more commonly in Belauri Municipality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the farmers getting huge benefits due to the use of technology in traditional farming is Asre Ram Badayak of Belauri Municipality-6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Similarly, the application of drone technology is being more popular in agriculture &#8212; for sowing seeds and controlling insects in farming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is said that farmers are attracted towards the mechanization of farming since this is cost and time-effective and efficient.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Badayak, who is doing commercial farming since 2017, has bought agricultural inputs and equipment worth Rs 10 million.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Last year, I bought a drone at Rs 1 million as drone technology has made farming easier,&#8221; he said adding that technology has reduced the cost of farming and resulted in better production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Badayak said he also took training on commercial farming from different cities in India.\u00a0 (RSS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kanchanpur: The use of technology in farming has gradually increased in Belauri and other areas in the district of Kanchanpur. Farmers have started using tractors, mini-tillers and power tillers instead of oxen and he-buffaloes to plow the fields for traditional farming. Likewise, the local communities have made their life easier by technology for crop harvesting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":51652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[264,5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate","category-economy","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/NG_SUNSARI_IMG_20241025_092341-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1653&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcWLTd-dr4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51651,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51650\/revisions\/51651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}