DIMAPUR, JUNE 19: For the Naga people, agriculture is what sustains the community even today. The people’s association with their land is as old as the community itself. Across the state, especially in the villages, the people survive on rice, fruit and vegetables they farm throughout the year.
Likewise, this is the season in which tomatoes are harvested in large scale at Longkhum village in Mokokchung. On Sunday afternoon, a citizen of Mokokchung send pictures of the cultivation along with a write-up to the local press.
He informed that the harvested tomatoes are supplied from the village to “a number of other places in Nagaland for which I feel very happy about.” Now, he said, the town of Mokokchung and its surrounding areas “have plenty” of tomatoes harvested at Longkhum village.
“Taking their village as an example, all the villages should adopt the cultivation of ginger, garlic, chili, cabbage, beans, cucumber, gourds, tomato etc. according to their suitable lands so that during season, we need not bring it in from other neighboring states.”
According to the citizen, the harvested tomatoes from Longkhum reach even Kohima as supply. “Nagas are known as agrarian society, but we eat foods that have been cultivated using fertilizers in other states. Therefore let’s make this century a time where we change ourselves by stopping to buy fertilized food items from other states,” he wrote.
