Agriculture in Sankhu

Sankhu is one of the city with most fertile land having high productivity capacity. Thus most of the people in Sankhu are engaged in agriculture. Except some percentage of people, about all are engaged in agriculture wholly or partly. Sankhu is known for its potato production as it is the most potato producing place. And people from different place import the potato from Sankhu. The farming system in most of the place are same but nowadays new way and technology are being introduced. In the previous days, only the potato used to be the cash crops and rice, wheat, maize etc. used to be the main crops of Sankhu but with the transfiguration of time farmers are more attracted to cash crops and seasonal farming is also being replaced by unseasonal farming. Nowdays, along with potato and rice, cauliflower, tomato, cucumber, cereals, brinjal, pumpkin etc are the main cash crops in Sankhu raising the income level of farmers of Sankhu as they are cash crops that generate cash by their sale. Along with new crops new techniques, way of farming, scientific tools and equipments, improved seeds and fertilizer are introduced in Sankhu. But to the bad luck of people at present natural elements like rain is discouraging the farmers’ activeness and interest in farming as the there is irregular change in climate affecting the survival and growth of crops and resulting the heavy loss in the production of crops. Mostly, Farmers depend on rain water and due the increase in average temperature and other factor there is no rain in proper time and the heat of sun burn out the farmers’ skin and the crops and other sources of water had also dried out. Even though farmers are using generator for the water to irrigate their field and some are still depending on the rainwater. Farmers are much more worried about the present situation of the climate in Sankhu as that can lead to famine in Sankhu.