Agri production is estimated to be not less than Rs800 crore-Rs1,000 crore.
Abadasa, the country's last border taluka, is known for its fish-rich Jakhau port and fishermen from both the countries sneaking into each others territorial waters during the on-going fishing season.
But this time, it is in the news for different reasons. The coastal taluka is reaping unprecedented rain crops. The taluka which had recorded the lowest rainfall of five to seven inches in the 2008 monsoon forcing people to migrate with their cattle wealth, had received the highest rainfall of more than 40 inches in the district. This has totally changed the lifestyle of the farmers.
"The taluka's agricultural production is estimated to be not less than Rs800 crore to Rs1,000 crore. With less rainfall, the production of crops has never been so good.
This could be possible because of the highest rainfall of more than 40 inches in the district in our taluka. If we get the Narmada water which continues to be a dream for this perennially drought district on a regular basis," said Satish Thackar, sarpanch of taluka headquarter village of Nalia.
The costly cash crop of cotton, which he said was again an irrigated crop.
"Farmers from Punjab and Haryana who settled in the border areas in the seventies for security reasons mainly started cultivation of cotton. Locals also learnt from them new technique and this time in June, cotton was grown as main crop in one lakh acres of land as irrigated crop, and today this crop alone is estimated to be worth over Rs300 to Rs400 crore," he said.
"We have had good crop of cotton this year. I have reaped 35 maund from an acre this time," Mohansingh, a farmer of Abadasa taluka said.
He said that there might have been more rains this time other parts of state, but no other taluka in the backward taluka of the state would have yielded this much of crop.
He said some 25,000 farm labourers from the Panchamahals and Rajasthan have descended in the taluka for the harvesting.
RN Kuchara, mamlatdar of Abadasa, said that this year because of good rains only in the taluka, the crop was good. "Such harvest was not heard of in recent times," he said.
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