Economic size of farm:
20 acres = 8 ha = 60 Bighas.
Government of India has demanded additional 112 Bighas of land for this project.
Government of India has demanded an additional 112 Bighas of land for this project.
The gram pradhan had purchased the 90 Bighas of land two years back, he said.
Mitra organised an agricultural firm of 150 Bighas for scientific farming, plantation and research in Barasat.
They formed a society and transferred the 1,400 Bighas of land to the society between 1952 and 1955.
Her mother-in-law, brother-in-law and his family barely manage to live off their 2- 2.5 Bighas(roughly 0.6 acres) of farmland.
After Aila intensified salinity,
Kajal Lata's family too had to sell six Bighas of their 23 Bighas(7.6 acres) of land.
Her 72-year-old husband Mata Prasad Sahu,
who is too ill to work in their three Bighas of farmland, faces similar problems.
On his 1.5 Bighas(around half an acre)
of land, he built a house and, over time, was able to cultivate rice too.
He worked as a mason on sites across the state,
saved some money and came back to cultivate eight Bighas of leased land.
His father, Netrapal Yadav,
said he would sell the family's eight Bighas(two acre) of land to raise more money to treat his son.
Shoba and
her husband Ram Garib Bharti have struggled for the same four Bighas of land(around one acre) for 20 years in Badi village.
He said that 681 Bighas of land has been transferred to the Health Department
and other related issues should be finalized at the earliest.
After a while, they decided on- 150 Bighas of farmland(around 38 acres),
and altogether 500 Bighas(124 acres), including the jungle, not far from Badi.
It was founded in 1643 AD by the king Harbans, an official at the court of Shah Jahan,
who had received a grant of 500 Bighas from the Emperor in Pargana Harha.