Ramgarh: Officers in the Army’s Sikh Regimental Centre at Ramgarh seen a Bokaro-based farmer to secure watermelons and handed groceries, dry and gifts ration as a token of admiration.
The Army officers attained Kander village in Arabian Bokaro to fulfill Ranjan Kumar Mahto.
A Ranchi University alumnus, Mahto had made a decision to pursue farming and’d chosen watermelons within his six acres plantation afterwards having a bank loan of Rs 12 lakh.
Mahto had increased almost 100 metric tons of watermelon.
However, as fortune would have it, a catastrophic second wave of this Covid-19 pandemic and another lockdown imposed from the state authorities frees his hopes of gain as a significant chunk of his own crop rotted from the farm since Mahto didn’t find buyers.
“Since the watermelons were sterile and we all had no takers, we chose to give our own produce.
We approached the Army cantonment at Ramgarh and then offered to provide them five heaps of our watermelons at no cost,” Mahto stated.
Impressed with Mahto’s gesture, Sikh Regimental Centre’s commandant Brigadier M Shree Kumar along with other senior Army officers attained Mahto’s farm at Kander village earlier this week and passed on dry ration, gifts and groceries into Mahto and his farm employees as a token of admiration.
The Army trucks shot five tons of watermelons together into the cantonment.
However, the Army is reluctant to shoot the watermelons at no cost.
“The farmers have made significant investments and harder to increase their own produce.
It is going to be injustice with them.
We’ll cover them to the watermelons,” an Army officer said.