Gaya Farmer Boosts Income with Dragon Fruit & Multi-Cropping

• Shrikant Yadav, a farmer from Gaya, Bihar, is achieving bumper profits through multi-cropping on his 8-acre dragon fruit farm.
• Inspired by a visit to Mount Abu, Rajasthan, Yadav cultivates spinach, coriander, and bananas alongside dragon fruit.
• He also grows Noon Hans variety chilli in a polyhouse and has diversified into various banana and mango varieties.
• Yadav employs modern irrigation techniques like sprinklers and drip irrigation, and practices organic farming using vermicompost from his 10 cows.
• He advocates for multi-cropping and modern techniques to help Bihar farmers achieve prosperity similar to those in Punjab and Haryana.