Morung Express News
Kiphire | August 10
Following the monsoon season which has brought crippling floods and landslides to many parts of Nagaland, Kiphire has been one of the worst hit areas affected by the calamities.
Despite reeling under the after affects of the disaster, the vegetable market in Kiphire town is still ‘going green.’
Credit goes to the women farming community for keeping the market plentiful with vegetables, fruits, spices, millet, job tears, wild mushrooms and other eatables grown in the field and gathered from the jungle.
Every morning, the residents eagerly wait for the Sumo taxi and Tata mobile truck to arrive with the women farmers bringing the produces directly from the “field and jungle” to the town where they sell them and go back to the village to prepare for the next day. It is a daily routine.
In many cases, some of the women vegetable vendors carry the products on their head and travel due to shortage of fuel in the district.
A non-local vegetable vendor who sits in the daily market said that the local farming community is providing enough to meet the demand for quite some years now. He also said that except for tomato which is little scarce, all the other items are available in excess.
“In certain instances the women vegetable vendors force us to buy all their unsold products at a cheaper rate because they do not have storage facilities and also they have to return to their villages on the same day,” he added.
A woman vendor who has been seating in the daily market for few years now said that earlier a sum of rupees 10 was paid as toll tax daily for selling the goods inside daily market. “But the new administrator has waived this toll tax and also allotted the best place inside the market complex which has encouraged all the vendors,” she added while acknowledging Reny Wilfred, IAS SDO (C) Kiphire who is also the new administrator of Kiphire Town Council (KTC).
The chairman of the daily market complex, Yangtsali while speaking with The Morung Express also echoed similar opinion. “The market complex is now fresh after the new administrator took over. We are looking forward for many new programmes and developments under the new administrator of KTC,” he added.
It may be mentioned here that the Meluri District Administration under the directive of DC Phek and the Kiphire District Administration led by SDO (C) with the NSDMA team have assisted to transport more than 1000 bags of rice to Kiphire along with AIF airdrop of relief material to the district. Other than rice, Kiphire has not experienced shortage of other essential perishable commodities as enough organics products are available in the market.
