“Earning 80,000 rupees by cultivating cotton on barren land”
By yash chouhan 2025-12-08 11:54:18
Haryana: Earning 80,000 Rupees per acre by growing cotton on barren land
While farmers in the region rely solely on paddy crops and abandon land they consider barren and infertile, Haryana farmers are earning thousands of rupees per acre by cultivating cotton on that very land.
Farmer Naveen Hooda, who leased 120 acres of fallow land in village Ravan, 10 kilometers away, has been cultivating cotton for the past 5-6 years, earning over 75,000 to 80,000 Rupees per acre. The farmer explained that he has been cultivating cotton on this land, which lacks irrigation facilities, relying solely on rain for the past few years.
Furthermore, in villages like Pattharchuwa, farmers from Haryana like Ramhet, Jagbir, and Kuldeep are also cultivating cotton on similar land. They explained that a plot of 50 to 100 acres is not available in Haryana, so they come to Chhattisgarh to cultivate cotton. He said that farmers in Chhattisgarh and the region could also do this if they wanted to, but perhaps they aren't interested. When this was discussed with Ramprasad Yadav, Dars Sahu, Jeevan Sahu, and Krishna of Tildabandha, they said that they used to grow pulses and oilseeds on the land where they grow paddy, but are unable to do so due to the monkey menace.
They don't have much knowledge about growing crops like sugarcane and cotton. Gradually, as awareness grows, the production of these crops will certainly increase, leading to increased profits. The farmers explained that this crop, which takes six to eight months to mature, costs approximately ₹25,000 per acre for seeds, plowing the land, applying fertilizers and pesticides, and harvesting the cotton. Furthermore, there are additional costs for land lease and crop transportation. He told that the production of cotton per acre is about 18 quintals, which after being harvested by local labourers coming from Punjab at the rate of ₹8 per kg, is taken to places like Berla in Chhattisgarh and Nagpur in Maharashtra and sold at the rate of about ₹7000 to ₹8000 per quintal.
