MYAGDI: Cardamom cultivation done in Beni municipality-3, Musung village, on a trial basis has become successful.
Following the success of cardamom cultivation, initiated three years ago as a trial, has been expanded in a commercial manner.
Chairperson of Beni municipality-3, Padam Pun, said other farmers have started expanding cardamom farming after cardamom cultivated in jungle at Charkhola started producing well.
Cardamom has been cultivated on more than 20 ropanis of land by uprooting bushes from barren and wetland following favourable weather, geography, bazaar and appropriate price.
Fifty years ago, landslide destroyed the arable land and turned it into barren land. Cardamom, which is being cultivated in hilly districts of Koshi Province in Eastern Nepal, is considered as ‘black gold’.
According to agriculture technicians, cardamom is cultivated on land above 800 to 1800 meters above the sea level.
Agriculture officer of Beni Municipality, Akriti Dhungana, shared that Ramshahi, Golshahi and Dammar Shahi species of cardamom are cultivated in Nepal.
