Bihar Potato Farmers

The situation has worsened so much that the farmers are not even getting labourers to extract potatoes from the potato fields.

Farmers of a village in Bihar's Nalanda district are planning to go global. Potatoes, pumpkins, garlics, chillis and ladyfingers, among other vegetables, produced in Sohdih village are all set to make their way to kitchens in Europe.The farmers are eyeing...

Bihar's farmers have done it again. A farmer from Sohdih village of Bihar's Nalanda district has set a new world record in potato production through organic farming this year.

Bihar's legislators have received a unique gift - organically grown potatoes - to relish and encourage farmers in their constituencies to adopt the farming practice which has led to a record yield of the tuber in the state.

Dozens of farmers are guarding their potato crop with guns as they fear Maoist guerrillas may attack their fields, police said on Wednesday.

The situation has worsened so much that the farmers are not even getting labourers to extract potatoes from the potato fields.

Farmers of a village in Bihar's Nalanda district are planning to go global. Potatoes, pumpkins, garlics, chillis and ladyfingers, among other vegetables, produced in Sohdih village are all set to make their way to kitchens in Europe.The farmers are eyeing...

Bihar's farmers have done it again. A farmer from Sohdih village of Bihar's Nalanda district has set a new world record in potato production through organic farming this year.

Bihar's legislators have received a unique gift - organically grown potatoes - to relish and encourage farmers in their constituencies to adopt the farming practice which has led to a record yield of the tuber in the state.

Dozens of farmers are guarding their potato crop with guns as they fear Maoist guerrillas may attack their fields, police said on Wednesday.