What can Dorokha learn from the recent monsoon disaster?

We can develop only when we grow our own food and now is the perfect time we feed ourselves 

Roads still unstable and shops still short of its usual stocks, people wait for hours and rush for the limited arrival each Sunday. It’s been almost two weeks now that I relied on chilies and potatoes for all my meals. I have tasted potatoes in all possible shapes and styles but potatoes are still potatoes LOL. 

satellite view of Dorokha

Maps and books say Dorokha lies in southern foothills with subtropical climate and rainfall usually being above 2000mm per annum but I bet anyone coming with these geographical facts will be shocked to experience the drastic variation. Dorokha in fact is against all geographical and bookish facts, here we experience sub-Alpine in early spring to real sub-tropical from mid May-mid September followed by a brief temperate freshness before we welcome the Sub-Alpine back.



My little knowledge demands me to say this place can serve to be a vegetable hub for Bhutan as any seed that fall off your hand reaps the product, let me list down the fruits and vegetables that grows very well here:-

The list of Fruits n Vegetables prepared by me and my students

In fact Dorokha have all the potentials to feed the whole of Haa, Paro and Thimphu round the year, if such potentials across the country especially in the southern part of the country are harnessed we could reduce the import by at least 20%  in next two years and in next five years approximately 2-5% of urban population will return to the villages while income of our farmer will rise drastically and country could boast rupee reserve by a good figure in next two to three fiscal year alone and Vegetables will always have market but that’s something I am dreaming and keep sharing with my students without knowing what they would actually be thinking.

Southern homes are famed for their flowering culture no longer boast the same as cardamom did not even abscond these gardens. People here earns well through cardamom cultivation and exports and I always pray for their successes but at the back of my mind I always ask myself do they have a contingency plan? Almost all the dry lands, more than 70% of the wet lands and flower garden are under cardamom cultivation. What next if the crop fails or the market fails is my question as I ingest all the imported foods through the Bhutanese throat...

The southern homes once so reputed for flowering culture no longer boast the same now

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