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| J&K govt launches drive |
| For personnel of the Excise department the ongoing drive against poppy cultivation is proving hectic.
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| INDIA
, 2-May-2007
3:26:7 AM |
| The Jammu and Kashmir government has launched a massive drive against poppy cultivation as more and more farmers in Kashmir cultivate the crop as a means of quick buck.
For personnel of the Excise department the ongoing drive against poppy cultivation is proving hectic.
Every day hundreds of men take to the fields to destroy the standing crop and so far only 50 acres has been covered.
''There is a lot of money in the cultivation that is why large number of people are shifting to poppy cultivation. Another reason is that we were launching a drive,'' said Qasim Wani, Deputy Excise Commissioner.
More money
A farmer gets 20 times more money from poppy cultivation than from rice and that too with minimal efforts.
There's no need to bother about irrigation facilities, de-weeding and pesticides, that's why over 3,000 acres of land in South Kashmir is under poppy and cannabis cultivation.
Every year more farmers are taking to this illegal yet lucrative cultivation, which has become a headache for the law-enforcing agencies.
''We thought it would be cultivated in two-three villages. Now it's the eighth village. Last year we destroyed poppy cultivated on 100 acres of land,'' said Sardar Khan, SP, Awantipora.
The drive against poppy cultivation is launched every year here but these fields re-appear without fail as farmers never give up.
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