Jhapa Company Cultivates Tea and Areca Nut Together

Jhapa. Tea and areca nut, major cash crops with good markets and high economic potential, have been cultivated separately in Jhapa. However, a company here has started a new practice by cultivating both crops together on the same land.

Hadiya Real Tea Estate, operating in Bhadrapur Municipality Wards 8 and 9, has simultaneously advanced commercial cultivation of tea and areca nut on 60 bighas of land. Estate operator Bhakti Adhikari informed that mixed cultivation has been started as the climate and soil requirements for tea and areca nut are very similar.