But the only challenge for arecanut growers in the plains, where there are no such problems as leaf spot, yellow leaf, or blight, is the availability of irrigation. Because the root of a nut tree that does not go very deep cannot survive without water for long periods of time.
Apart from this, the problem of nut crop expansion will also bother the current nut growers there. Will the arecanut crop fall to a minimum price due to this extension…?. Will the minimum price of five thousand rupees per quintal of arecanut fall? One day the areca nut growers of the plains will dump their arecanut produce in the APMC yard for price drop..?
It is the indomitable belief of any existing nut grower and new nut plantation developer in the coastal plains of Malnadu that the price of nut will not fall to the lowest price... but this leaf spot fungus will gradually attack the traditional nut growers of the coastal plains of Malnadu.
It is Pulakeshi, One Pulakeshi, Immadi Pulakeshi, Mummadi Pulakeshi, Nalmadi Pulakeshi, and it is possible that almost all the nut plantations of the hilly coast will be fed by the leaf fungus in four or five years.
Reason.., "Rain and wet weather in the month of September", first the rainy season started in June on the hilly coast and ended at the end of August. In September, it rained here and there.
But, now the rainy season has not come for a month of June...!. Rainy season starts in July...! It ended in October..! This one month difference in rainy season is very suitable for arecanut fungal disease. This one-month monsoon variation has been constant for the past ten years. Because of this climate file, leaf spot fungus is impossible to control with any fungicide.
The loss of betal nut on the hilly coast will be a huge benefit to the arecanut crop in the plains. Along with this, thousands of acres of nut plantations based on bore well irrigation in the plains will be destroyed in the near future as the bore wells dry up. In the coming days, only the dam irrigated nut plantations will survive. That too is a big advantage for groundnut growers.
In the past, arecanut crop thinkers thought that one day, if the groundnut farmers in the plains face a fall in the price of groundnut or any other problem, they would uproot the entire plantation and plant a new crop without any sentimentality about the groundnut crop. He was analyzing that. But this time it is not like that... Even if the price of nut has fallen by the same amount, there is no other crop that is as profitable and easy as nut compared to all the current crops...!!
I have a feeling that if I plant walnuts once and make arrangements for irrigation in summer, it will be over.
The only challenge for the arecanut growers in the plains is that in the highlands, it rains well during the rainy season and the Tungabhadra and other rivers have to be dammed and in April and May water has to be supplied to the groundnut growers in the dam channel… that’s it……. Apart from this one problem, there is no other problem for the nut growers of the plains..!
Even ten part of the working capital that falls on a kg nut in our hills does not fall on a plain land nut...!! After the rainy season, the whole garden is plowed with a tractor and some chemical is poured into the bottom, and the whole garden is watered like the summer is watered.
There are no small farmers in the plains like us. Most of the nut growers do not process their own nuts. Everyone gives nuts to Keni. No matter how low the price of arecanut falls, it will be beneficial for the arecanut growers of the plains.. If by chance, some of the arecanut crops can be grown as intercrops. But the farmers of the plains can't get as much margin as the nut crop in any other crop. Even if the price of the arecanuts is twenty five thousand rupees per quintal, the arecanut farmers of the plains get a huge profit..!!
Surely all this will happen in another four or five years.. This should not be said by Mr. Kodi.
Betel nut growers of the upland coast, our betel nut buyers do not want the taste of quality. This is the biggest drawback of the traditional nut crop. If the buyer had been interested in the traditional nut crop, there would have been a permanent price and demand for the nut crop of the hill country.
Now the buyer of nut is the one who grinds it and uses it....he wants quantity not quality.... His required quantity will be in plain area….!!!
Instead of having to face all the adverse weather including leaf spot fungus, yellow leaf disease or nut rot disease, the nut farmers of the hilly coast have become aware of the future and believe in the production of nut directly, it is high time for the growers to think about the alternative product and put it forward. Nut growers be aware.
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