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MNREGA converts 34 acres of land from a cropped crop to bifacial fields

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Tribal farmers Mr. Chhote Lal, Mr. Tulsi Das and Mr. Ramashankar are witnessing a miracle of their lives. At the village of Deogarh, 105 km from the district headquarters of Korea, after they have a look at their fields, the harvest of the wheat wheat brings tears of pleasure to their eyes. Just look forward to a while and for the primary time they’ll have the ability to eat bread made from wheat flour grown in their very own discipline, and earn additional by promoting the crop. These are the identical lands that they used to depart for a few years solely after the kharif crop, as a result of with out water there was not a single sprout. These farmers didn’t even assume of their goals that Rabi crops will even be introduced on their land.

Not solely are these three farmers within the Baiga tribal-dominated Deogarh of Vananchal Bharatpur growth block in Koriya district, whose fields nonetheless look inexperienced. Ten farmers of each the villages of Deogarh and Janua on each side of Nala are being irrigated on 34 acres of land from the Stopdem made by MNREGA (National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) on Pachni Nala. With this stopdam, a complete of 15 acres of seven farmers of Janua, Mr. Dinesh Singh, Balicharan Singh, Ramdas Singh, Prafulla Singh, Bhagwan Das, Budhu Singh and Smt. Is getting water for irrigation throughout the Rabi season.