Shri.Drepshon Kharpuri 65 years of age is a resident of Laitjem village which is about 22 Kms from Shillong is one of the progressive farmer under Mylliem Block in East KhasiHills.He and his family owned a plot of land not less than 3 hactare and grow varieties of vegetables like cauliflower, radish, turnip, pea etc.Regarding potato he is one of the farmer registered under the Department for seed multiplication. Five years back Shri. Drepshon Kharpuri seeing the shortage of vegetable seeds facedby the farmers in his village and the surrounding areas he started the work of “ Vegetable Seed Production for cole crops” in his land. With the launching of Technology Mission on Horticulture he could expand his work as the Department has given assistance to him for Area Expansion of Vegetables, Installation of Polyhouse and Drip Irrigation. With the implementation of Private Nursery under TMH/2007-08/2R his family has been selected as one of the beneficiary for “ Vegetable Seed Production Nursery”. Since then, Shri.DrepshonKharpuri seeing the potentiality he has progress tremendously in this field. Through this scheme (Private Nursery) as shown in the picture. One H-Tech polyhouse of 100 sqm, one water harvesting tankand a vermi-compost unit has been installed in his place.

This has enhanced his activities and through his Nursery he is able to produce vegetable seeds annually.

Shri.Drepshon Kharpuri market the seeds locally to the farmers of near and far villages without any difficulty and is earning approximately 1.5 lakhannually from this activity.

Thus Setting up of “Vegetable Seed Production”Nursery in this place is a great success and ShriDrepshon Kharpuri through his hard workbeside getting Income for himself has uplift the farming community as a whole.