Farmers from Bhojpur say that they are engaged in commercial kiwi farming as the market demand is good and they can earn better than compared to other crops.
Farmers in Lumbini Province struggle to sustain themselves through subsistence farming
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Local farmers have started potato farming in the land that has remained barren for the past 20 years at Mareni of Dhaulagiri Rural Municipality-2 in Myagdi district.
Coffee farming in the Gulmi district has attracted local farmers following a surging demand for coffee in foreign countries including Japan and France.
Coffee farming in the Gulmi district has attracted local farmers following a surging demand for coffee in foreign countries including Japan and France.
Lately, apple farming has grown as an alternative to popular black marsi rice among farmers of Jumla in the remote Karnali region of Nepal. Padmi Nepali of Tila rural municipality-4 says the farmers started cultivating apples in search of an easy way of income after local rivers started eroding their paddy fields during the rainy season.
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KANCHANPUR, July 18: Farmers of Simalphanta at Shuklaphanta Municipality-7 have been attracted to organic vegetable farming. A group of 21 farmers have cultivated vegetables without using the chemical fertilizer and pesticides in four bighas of land.
They have grown long bean, pumpkin, bottle gourd, bitter gourd and cucumber in plastic tunnels. Compost fertiliser and natural pesticides have been used in the farming.
The Simalphanta farmers supply 70 quintals of produces to the market on a daily basis and secure an income of over Rs 4,000 each day, according to a local Basanta Devi Bista.
Organic vegetable farming has been a reliable means of the livelihood for the people here.
Most farmers involved in the farming were shifted to her from the Shuklaphanta National Park's extended area. Each family owns 10 kathha of land.
SYANGJA, June 21: Former Minister for Agriculture and Livestock, Padma Kumari Aryal, has urged the farmers to involve in commercial farming.
Inaugurating a training on commercial vegetable farming organized by Rural Agriculture Cooperative Association at Bayerghari here Monday, the former minister Aryal viewed once the land pooling was adopted for modern farming, it could enhance agricultural products and address the unemployment problems.
Twenty-five farmers attended the training organized with the assistance of Ministry of Land Management in the province, according to Association Manager Saraswati Adhikari.
The three-day training on commercial vegetable farming was organized under the entrepreneurship development programme, said Chairperson of District Cooperatives Association, Laxmi Pati Poudel.
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