{"id":6977,"date":"2022-07-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/mukti_merged\/success-story-of-swapan-a-dragon-fruit-cultivator\/"},"modified":"2022-07-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T00:00:00","slug":"success-story-of-swapan-a-dragon-fruit-cultivator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.maxmobility.in\/mukti\/success-story-of-swapan-a-dragon-fruit-cultivator\/","title":{"rendered":"Success Story of Swapan \u2013 a Dragon Fruit Cultivator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swapan Halder, the residence of Purba Sridharpur, Nagendrapur GP of Sundarban and working as Mukti night guard has ventured into dragon fruit cultivation and has reaped a successful harvest. Mukti has provided him with 21 dragon fruit plants 2 years ago.\u00a0 Among the 21 plants, 2-3 plants have borne fruit and the rest has started flowering. His wife Shyamali Halder also helps him to cultivate Dragon fruit.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-43586 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/mukti-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-07-07-at-1.16.31-PM-138x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"138\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Swapan says he initially has been skeptical if the crop would survive in the moist and humid climatic conditions of Sundarban. &#8220;Mukti not only provided the plant but also provides me the knowledge of cultivating this fruit. I conducted a pilot study and cultivated a few plants. To my surprise, the plants not only survived but also did not require much water and labor. I have come to know that it has medicinal values. It has a very good market and anyone can grow the fruit using limited space in their agricultural land \u201che says.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the plant and its use, Swapan says that once a plant starts flowering, the plant keeps on bearing fruits around the year. Around 20 kg of the fruit can be harvested from each plant which can be sold at a rate of Rs 400 per kg in the market.<\/p>\n<p>Swapan is hopeful that by observing his success, many more people will come forward to cultivate dragon fruit and benefit like him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swapan Halder, the residence of Purba Sridharpur, Nagendrapur GP of Sundarban and working as Mukti night guard has ventured into dragon fruit cultivation and has reaped a successful harvest. Mukti has provided him with 21 dragon fruit plants 2 years ago.\u00a0 Among the 21 plants, 2-3 plants have borne fruit and the rest has started&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[342],"tags":[773,15,14,18],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.maxmobility.in\/mukti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.maxmobility.in\/mukti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.maxmobility.in\/mukti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.maxmobility.in\/mukti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.maxmobility.in\/mukti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.maxmobility.in\/mukti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.maxmobility.in\/mukti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.maxmobility.in\/mukti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.maxmobility.in\/mukti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.maxmobility.in\/mukti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}