The tantalizing sweetness of the small-sized oranges fittingly earned a name of Jampui Kamola (orange) over the decades. Jampui Kamola is now grown in no more than 100 hectares. Is Jampui Kamola a thing of past? It has also shifted ‘Kamola Utsav’ — a festival started in mid-eighties after Jampui Kamola was awarded the first prize at Delhi Fruits Exhibition — to Baramura Hills this year, where incumbent BJP-IPFT government is trying to reshape orange plantations, triggering questions if ‘Jampui Kamola’ is a thing of the past now. Agriculture minister Pranajit Singha Roy said his department will start an experiment on 5-hectare land at Jampui Hills to check out if ‘Jampui Kamola’ can indeed be revived.

Source: Indian Express November 17, 2019 07:18 UTC