Police officer Rajshankar lives a ‘royal’ life by gardening litchis

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Ballia: Lychee of Bihar and Muzaffarpur are synonymous with each other. But to break this myth, a retired police officer from Nirupur in the district has started gardening in his village. The royal lychee produced in his garden is now going to Mumbai, Delhi and Nashik.

Even today both brothers eat from the same plate

Rajshankar Tiwari of Nirupur retired as Assistant Commandant of RPF in 2013. There are two brothers but both brothers had no children so adopted a child who is now 21 years old. Even today both brothers eat from the same plate. Usually people retire to cities after holding high positions, but Rajshankar Tiwari made the village his home.

Even before his retirement, Rajshankar Tiwari organized horticulture in the village. After the 2002 consolidation, Chak grew, so in October 2005, 275 royal litchi trees were planted in four bighas in Dopahi Mauje of the village. Along with this, 200 mango trees were planted in five bighas. The laborers around the village were entrusted with the responsibility of looking after the horticulture. When he retired in 2013, he completely made the village his home. After retirement, he moved to Muzaffarpur and learned the tricks of litchi gardening at the Litchi Research Centre.

A businessman from Bihar took a lychee garden on contract

He has built a guesthouse in his lychee and mango orchard. Where they live and care. At present 232 litchi trees are ready in his garden. While two hundred mango trees are also fully prepared. More than 211 litchi trees started bearing fruit. Until last year, litchi and mango grown in such a large garden were sold only in the local market. Due to which the profit decreased. However, this time too only eight tonnes of lychees were produced due to less easterly winds, but marketing tips have brought their royal lychee into the limelight. This is the reason why a businessman from Bihar’s Muzaffarpur has contracted his litchi garden. Last week, each consignment of lychee packed in cartons made in Chennai has been sent to Mumbai and Delhi. A consignment of litchi is being sent to Nashik in Maharashtra by train on Wednesday.

Baliani litchi will be as famous as sattu

Mango crop is also good this time in Rajshankar Tiwari’s garden. Langda, Dasheri and Chausa mangoes will be ready after ripening in June. Rajshankar Tiwari is trying to make litchi prepared in Ballia as popular as sattu here.

Preparing to send Balinese lychee to Dubai

Retired police officer Rajshankar Tiwari has worked hard to break tradition and set up litchi gardens, but he is also a little worried about apathy at the administrative and political levels. He said that here there is more talk, less work on the ground. This discourages us. Said I don’t have license to export now. District Magistrate Ravindra Kumar has encouraged exports. Spoke to lychee traders in Dubai. Ballia litchi will go out of the country if the license is granted soon. It will also increase competition in the domestic market. He said that lychee is available in the country at a quarter of the price, while currently the Dubai market has a good rate.

Attracted to gardening while at work

72-year-old Rajshankar Tiwari mostly lived at the RPF headquarters. Where Mana started to enjoy gardening. He said that I have read somewhere that a tree gives an output of ninety lakhs in its entire life. Since then my inclination towards trees grew. As children we used to play on tree branches. Due to which there was attachment with trees. Today there are fewer trees. The children have fallen away from the trees. A growing population tends to exploit nature.