Vegetable Farming Lucrative for Small Landholders

Bhutanese People are blessed with fertile land where they could cultivate different varieties of vegetable to make a decent living, especially if you have small land holdings. Most Bhutanese people of wangduephodrang, punakha are lucky to have the weather and monsoon favoring the growth of varieties of cash crops and food. There crops are grown through out the year and provide them a varieties of choice to sell in the market which ensure a steady supply and a steady inflow of cash if one works hard enough. With the Thimphu Vegetable market opened from the early Thursday till Sunday, the demand for fresh vegetable has increased at large where people of Thimphu have plenty to chose for the curry.

With the growing numbers of Bhutanese vegetables in the market, people of remote villages are paid off for their hard work and this is the only mean of getting few pennies to home for the purchase of kitchen necessity. For most of the Bhutanese farmers, they come with handful of vegetable transported from the village to the town area, most Bhutanese grown vegetable which are in the market are the chilies. Cabbage, brinjal (Egg plant), beans, sag, ferns, pumpkin, coriander and lot’s more. With government investing and training more farmers to use of new modern technology for the farming, Bhutan would be looking for sustainability in the production of vegetables products in near future. A seed sown for a poor farmer would mean a good amount of cash once it’s harvested. Most Bhutanese people still depends on the farming in remote parts and a good years of harvest would be an joy for whole families.

Bhutanese and the Chilies

When Summer Season begins till the autumn season, Bhutanese Chilies makes everywhere in the Country, the Chilies, which are bigger in size, are favor by most people living in the urban area. The Chilies has it's own taste, people prefer to have it emadatshi, a pure Bhutanese curry made from chilies and cheese, It is so popular amongst the tourist as well as they want to get the taste of Bhutanese dishes. Emadatshi with rice makes a healthy lunch or dinner except for that you need a bottle of water just near you.

Bhutanese people are used to eating chilies and they are know everywhere and even by the foreign visiting people, we the Bhutanese are born to dine with chilies, you go every Bhutanese house for a lunch or dinner and there would be a hot spicy curry made from chilies. I prefer to have hot food too but sometimes i am used to eating with less spicy. The Bhutanese chilies are grown everywhere in Bhutan except for few districts like gasa and laya where the cold weather exists. Farmer from all parts of the country makes huge money growing the chilies and getting into the urban market. The chilies can serves for any curry dishes be it Sikam pa (Dried pork) Shakam pa (Dried Beef), Emadatshi and other curry items. These Green Chilies can be consumed during winter by drying it in the sun and when dried it will become red which would be delicious. Bhutanese off all are known to eat raw chilies as well. Watever the trend is Bhutanese are without dobut can't live without chilies and that can be true when you go out of your country and you don't get the hot food, you miss the chilies a lot. HUH!! Can't let my tongue on fire.