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Jamshedpur, Dec 1 (PTI) Madhusudan Gorai of East Singhbhum district converted the global pandemic crisis into an opportunity to not only improve his income but also created employment opportunity for over four dozen people of his village by adopting collective farming, an official said on Wednesday.
Madhusudan along with his partner Subhash Gorai, a farmer, have availed the benefits of various government schemes and started commercial vegetable production to earn their livelihood and provided employment to 40 to 50 people in Patamda block of the district.
Madhusudan said he had lost his father at a tender age and started looking for job.
"I had worked as daily wager in a hotel in Adityapur in Seraikela-Kharswan district to maintain my family but the income was inadequate to meet the end," he said, adding that he left the job and went to work as a labourer in West Bengal a few months before the government imposed lockdown owing to COVID-19.
However, he had to return to his native village in Patamda block after lockdown restrictions were implemented, Madhusudan said, adding that on his return he made up his mind to start vegetable farming over an acre of his ancestral land in the village.
Madhusudan said he convinced one of his friends Subhash Gorai and hired some more land on lease.