Agriculture

Farmers Into Collective Potato Farming

Mar 15, 2023 0 1 minutes 52 seconds to read

Farmers have kick-started collective potato farming at Chapakot Municipality, syangja. Potato planted by farmers through the different groups in the plains of Chapakot is ready to be…

Agro Production Surges In Sudurpaschim Province

Mar 13, 2023 0 1 minutes 33 seconds to read

Sudurpaschim Province has witnessed rise in production and productivity of agriculture sector in the last few years. Agriculture sector saw its production increased after farmers started commercial…

Tanahun Farmers Get Improved Maize Seeds

Mar 10, 2023 0 52 seconds to read

With an aim to ensure more productions, the Vyas Municipality in Tanahun district has provided as many as six metric tonnes of improved corn seeds to the farmers in…

Honey Processing Industry Come into Operation

Mar 07, 2023 0 1 minutes 5 seconds to read

A honey Processing Industry has come into operation at Shivsatakshi Municipality, Jhapa. Female bee keepers have set up the honey processing plant for the first time in the…

Commercial Farming Of Dragon Fruit Starts In Parbat

Mar 06, 2023 0 1 minutes 13 seconds to read

Commercial farming of dragon fruit has started for the first time in Parbat. Farmer Dilli Prasad Lamichhane of Parbat’s Kusma Municipality-9 has begun the commercial farming of the dragon…

Sugar Mill Faces Sugarcane Scarcity

Mar 05, 2023 0 1 minutes 47 seconds to read

Baba Baijanath Sugar Mill has not been able to crush sugarcanes in accordance with its capacity in…

Twenty-eight Percent Arable Land Barren in Karnali Province

Mar 02, 2023 0 1 minutes 19 seconds to read

Twenty eight per cent of arable land has remained uncultivated in Karnali Province. Despite the province government’s policy to utilize barren land, a large swathe of land is lying barren and uncultivated owing to the lax implementation of the…

Collective Potato Farming in Barren Land

Feb 26, 2023 0 1 minutes 23 seconds to read

Local farmers have started commercial potato farming at the land uncultivated for the last 20 years at Mareni of Dhawalagiri Rural Municiplaity-2,…

Lalbandi Exports Agricultural Produce Worth Over Rs 1 Billion in Seven Months

Feb 24, 2023 0 1 minutes 40 seconds to read

Lalbandi agriculture wholesale bazaar management committee has exported agricultural products worth over Rs 1 billion in seven months of the current fiscal year,…

Parbat Exports Oranges Worth Around Rs 300 Million

Feb 20, 2023 0 43 seconds to read

Orange production has increased by around 25 percent in the current fiscal as compared to last year in Parbat…

Milk Producing Farmers to Protest For Fair Price

Feb 13, 2023 0 1 minutes 50 seconds to read

Milk producing farmers have warned of staging a protest if the government does not increase the price of milk in Tanahun. In a press meet organized at Damuli of Tanahun on Sunday, Tanahun District Milk Producers Cooperatives Union warned of staging the agitation if the government did not raise the prices of the…

Tharu Women Enjoying in Collective Agriculture in Chitwan

Jan 26, 2023 0 1 minutes 58 seconds to read

Until a few years ago, Tharu women would be busy doing just household chores at Gardi of Madi Municiplaity-1, Chitwan. The women’s daily routine, however, has changed after females from Tharu community started becoming active in…

Crops Wilt as Winter Rain Eludes Myagdi Farmers

Jan 24, 2023 0 1 minutes 37 seconds to read

Prolonged drought has caused the winter crops to wilt leaving the farmers worried in…

Paddy Production Tumbles in Gandaki Province

Jan 15, 2023 0 3 minutes 8 seconds to read

Gandaki Province has witnessed fall in paddy production this fiscal year. Paddy production has slumped by 3.74 per cent compared to the last…

Milk production Declines by 6 per cent in Madhes Province

Jan 04, 2023 0 59 seconds to read

Milk production has shrunk in Madhes…

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			'title' => 'Farmers Into Collective Potato Farming ',
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			'summary' => 'Farmers have kick-started collective potato farming at Chapakot Municipality, syangja.  Potato planted by farmers through the different groups in the plains of Chapakot is ready to be harvested.',
			'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px">March 15: Farmers have kick-started collective potato farming at Chapakot Municipality, Syangja.&nbsp;<br />
Potato planted by farmers through the different groups in the plains of Chapakot is ready to be harvested.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Local farmers have implemented collective potato farming in wards no 8,9, 10 of Chapakot Municipality, Syangja.<br />
Coordinator Ramu Bashyal of Belchaur Seetaltar Farmers Group said that they had been attracted towards the collective farming as plantation of the potato in group would make the potato cultivation easy and cost-effective rather than individual farming.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">&nbsp;&ldquo;For want of people to work in the farm, cultivation would be tough. But, working in the group has made it easy. Collective farming has enabled to earn skills and technology for the cultivation,&rdquo; Bashyal stated. According to him, the 450 kilograms of potatoes was planted in four ropani land for the first time.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">As many as 22 individuals are directly involved in the potato farming. The group could not produce the potato as expected due to lack of irrigation facility this time. &ldquo;We have produced more than 1100 kilograms of potato. We shall sell the produce through the group,&rdquo; Bashyal added.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Belchaur Seetaltar Mothers Group Chair Ishwori Bashyal says that planting potato collectively is far easier than doing it individually. &ldquo;We get a chance to learn and apply new skill and technology while cultivating the potato through the group,&rdquo; Ishwori Bashyal said.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">According to Surya Majhi of Chapakot-10, potato has been cultivated in 11 different toles by forming groups consisting of 35/40 individuals. Mothers and sisters have formed 11 different groups and planted potato in ward no 10 alone.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">&ldquo;We have amalgamated old and new groups and cultivated the potatoes targeting to make the ward 10 pocket area for potato,&rdquo; Majhi said. Potato&nbsp;has been planted in 150 ropani of the land in Chapakot-10.&nbsp;The concept of collective potato farming is also being executed at ward-8 of Chapakot, ward chair Toplal Neupane said.&nbsp;</span><br />
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			'title' => 'Agro Production Surges In Sudurpaschim Province',
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			'summary' => 'Sudurpaschim Province has witnessed rise in production and productivity of agriculture sector in the last few years. Agriculture sector saw its production increased after farmers started commercial farming.',
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<p><span style="font-size:18px">&nbsp;March 13: Sudurpaschim Province has witnessed rise in production and productivity of agriculture sector in the last few years. Agriculture sector saw its production increased after farmers started commercial farming.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Director Yagyaraj Joshi at the Agriculture Directorate Dipayal Office said that agricultural production had surged by two percent. &ldquo;Agricultural production has risen by 2 percent while fruit production has also gone up remarkably,&rdquo; said Joshi.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">According to the data at Ministry of Land Management, Agriculture, and Cooperative, major food crops were cultivated in 3,16,789 hectares of the land in fiscal year 2074/75 BS compared to 3,63,793 hectares of the land in the fiscal year of 2078/79.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Productivity of the food crops has increased from 2.7 metric tons per hectare to 3.7 metric tons per hectare. Production of paddy and wheat has surged by 3.5 percent.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Under seed increase programme, seeds of paddy, wheat, maize, potato, vegetables, and mustard oil are being produced in the province. Seed increase programme is being run to increase the seeds of vegetables and food items through Farmers&rsquo; Group and Farmers&rsquo; Cooperative to make the province self-dependent by&nbsp;replacing&nbsp;the import.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Eighteen seed processing and companies have been set up in Kailali, Dadeldhura, Baitadi and Kanchanpur districts, helping the marketing of seeds.&nbsp;&nbsp;Produced seeds are being exported to various districts.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">More than 4,491 families have been provided with power tillers, mini-tillers, rotavators, among others, on 50 percent grants. Farmers&rsquo; group and Farmer Cooperative have rented 74 bigaha land of Rastriya Aabash Company Limited and have been producing seeds of paddy, wheat, and mustard oil.&nbsp;</span></p>
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			'title' => 'Tanahun Farmers Get Improved Maize Seeds ',
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			'summary' => 'With an aim to ensure more productions, the Vyas Municipality in Tanahun district has provided as many as six metric tonnes of improved corn seeds to the farmers in grant.',
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<p><span style="font-size:18px">March 10: With an aim to ensure more productions, the Vyas Municipality in Tanahun district has provided as many as six metric tonnes of improved corn seeds to the farmers in grant.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">The farmers were provided the maize seeds with 50 per cent in grant. Section Officer of Agriculture Section of the municipality Pratima Bagale said farmers from all 14 wards in the municipality were given improved maize seeds of Arun-2, Rampur Composite, Manakamana-3 and other improved seeds.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">&quot;So far, we have distributed six metric tonnes of corn seeds. The distribution is ongoing,&quot; Bagale said. Bagale said that the move is aimed at making the farmers self-reliant and attract people them towards commercial farming.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Prior to this, the municipality had distributed 22 metric tonnes of potato seeds. The municipality is also planning to distribute the beehives to some 100 beekeepers. ---RSS</span><br />
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			'title' => 'Honey Processing Industry Come into Operation ',
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			'summary' => ' A honey Processing Industry has come into operation at Shivsatakshi Municipality, Jhapa. Female bee keepers have set up the honey processing plant for the first time in the district.',
			'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px">March 7: A honey Processing Industry has come into operation at Shivsatakshi Municipality, Jhapa. Female bee keepers&nbsp;have set up the honey processing plant for the first time in the district.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Satashi Women Bee Keeping Association, Sahara Nepal and Hokse Agriculture Cooperative have jointly established Sahara Satakshi Women Bee Honey Industry at the cost of Rs 12.5 million, according to industry&rsquo;s Coordinator Devi Kumari Oli Dahal.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Coordinator&nbsp;Dahal informed that the plant was processing more than 10,000 metric tons of honey in a year. A farming is&nbsp;being done for the commercial production of the honey in Satakshi Municipality.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Since honey is being processed with modern machine, we don&rsquo;t have the problem for its marketing, said farmer Dhanmaya Pathak.&nbsp; Seven females are employed at the plant in the first phase. </span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Locals of Shivsatakshi-11 have kept beehives ranging from 10 to 250 on average as ward No 11 has been declared bee keeping block area.&nbsp; More than 300 women have been doing&nbsp; bee keeping&nbsp;commercially and have been producing more than 60 tons of honey at Shivsatakshi-11 annually.&nbsp;</span></p>
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			'title' => 'Commercial Farming  Of Dragon Fruit Starts In Parbat ',
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			'summary' => 'Commercial farming of dragon fruit has started for the first time in Parbat. Farmer Dilli Prasad Lamichhane of Parbat’s Kusma Municipality-9 has begun the commercial farming of the dragon fruit. ',
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<p><span style="font-size:18px">March 6: Commercial farming of dragon fruit has started for the first time in Parbat. Farmer Dilli Prasad Lamichhane of Parbat&rsquo;s Kusma Municipality-9 has begun the commercial farming of the dragon fruit.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Farmer Lamichhane has planted 1200 saplings of dragon fruit. Dragon fruit is strange to many people in the district.&nbsp; &ldquo;We have 1300 ropani of the land. We are planning to bring 800 more saplings of the dragon fruit by adding 200 pillars. We shall cultivate grass and banana in the rets of the land,&rdquo; said Lamichhane.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Lamichhane is an&nbsp;office assistant of Katuwachupari Health Post. Along with dragon fruit, he has also been involved in animal husbandry. He sells milk at the headquarters in the morning and keeps himself busy in tending dragon fruit in the day time.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">&ldquo;Since income from job is not enough to improve financial condition, I have started dragon fruit cultivation,&rdquo; he added.<br />
Dragon fruit can be cultivated at an altitude of 1500 meters that receives adequate sun.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Two years after their plantation, dragon plants start bearing fruit. Its fruit weighs from 150 grams to 1 kilogram. Of late, the dragon fruit is being planted in flower pot, rooftop and house yard.&nbsp;</span><br />
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			'title' => 'Sugar Mill Faces Sugarcane Scarcity ',
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			'summary' => 'Baba Baijanath Sugar Mill has not been able to crush sugarcanes in accordance  with its capacity in Rautahat. ',
			'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px">March 5: Baba Baijanath Sugar Mill has not been able to crush sugarcanes in accordance &nbsp;with its capacity in Rautahat.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Following the decline of sugarcane production in the district, the mill has been experiencing dearth of sugarcanes for the last few years. The mill has capacity to crush 20,000 quintals of sugarcane in a day. The mill, however, is crushing the less than 7,000 quintals of the sugarcane on a daily basis.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Sugar Mill Proprietor Baiju Babara complained that sugarcane shortage had put the mill on the verge of closure.&nbsp;<br />
The mill had crushed just 0.6 million quintals of sugarcane last year. &ldquo;Operating the mill below its capacity has incurred heavy loss for the mill,&rdquo; said Babara.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Farmers have reduced the cultivation of the sugarcane due to some sugar mills&rsquo; failure to pay the farmers on regular basis. Mill proprietor Babara says that his mill has no issue regarding the payment to the sugarcane farmers. &ldquo;We have been paying the sugarcane farmers at their doorstep and encouraging them. Despite this, the production has declined,&rdquo; Babara said.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Farmers from Bara and Sarlahi used to sell sugarcane to the mill. The government ban to sell sugarcane from one district to another has aggravated the scarcity of the sugarcane, according to Barabara.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Baijanath Sugar Mill has been helping farmers with seed, fertilizer and payment at their place. Besides, the mill&nbsp;has also provided a cane harvester to the farmers.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Rautahat used to produce more than 2 million quintals of sugarcane in the past. The sugarcane production stands at between 1 to 1.2 million quintals a year at the moment, according to Sugarcane Producers&rsquo; Association Rautahat said.&nbsp; The mill has to be shut down earlier though the mill would operate till April in normal condition, said Baijanath.&nbsp;</span></p>

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			'title' => 'Twenty-eight Percent Arable Land Barren in Karnali Province ',
			'sub_title' => '',
			'summary' => 'Twenty eight per cent of arable land has remained uncultivated in Karnali Province.   Despite the province government’s policy to utilize barren land, a large swathe of land is lying barren and uncultivated owing to the lax implementation of the policy.',
			'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px">March 3: Twenty eight per cent of arable land has remained uncultivated in Karnali Province.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Despite the province government&rsquo;s policy to utilize barren land, a large swathe of land is lying barren and uncultivated owing to the lax implementation of the policy.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">&nbsp;Karnali Province faces a shortage of food every year. According to the Ministry of Land Management, Agriculture, and Cooperative, out of the total arable land, only 72 per cent has been utilized for farming.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Occupying 22 per cent area of the total geography of the country, seventy-four percent people rely on agriculture in Karnali Province. Home to 99,339 hectares of the arable land, the province produces 3,39,909 metric tons of the food in a year, while the province requires 3,58316 metric tons of the food &nbsp;yearly.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">The Ministry&rsquo;s Spokesperson Dhan Bahadur Kathayat said that the ministry had emphasized for the cultivation of fruits and vegetables in the uncultivated land.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">&ldquo;We have devised various plans to utilize unused and barren land. We are encouraging farmers for apple farming in mountainous districts and orange, kiwi and other fruits in hilly districts,&rdquo; Kathayat said.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">The province government says that it has been utilizing barren land to reduce poverty and end food shortage&nbsp;in the province.&nbsp;</span><br />
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			'title' => 'Collective Potato Farming in Barren Land ',
			'sub_title' => '',
			'summary' => 'Local farmers have started commercial potato farming at the land uncultivated for the last 20 years at Mareni of Dhawalagiri Rural Municiplaity-2, Myagdi. ',
			'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px">February 26: &nbsp;Local farmers&nbsp;have started commercial potato farming at the land uncultivated for the last 20 years at Mareni of Dhawalagiri Rural Municiplaity-2, Myagdi.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Lagansil Multipurpose Framers&rsquo; Group have cleared bushes&nbsp;at 44 ropani land and started&nbsp;collective potato farming.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">&ldquo;We have cleared the bushes, tilled the land and planted potatoes,&rdquo; said the group&rsquo;s chair Gausara BK. According to BK, eighteen persons have started commercial potato farming. The group is preparing to plant potato in 100 ropani land by expanding the farming to Paireni, and Lamsung as well.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">The group has&nbsp;planted 20 muri potato seeds in the rented land of local people.&nbsp;Rural municipality&rsquo;s agriculture branch&rsquo;s technical assistant Amrit Thapa said that farmers&rsquo; group had planted local species of potatoes in 44 ropani of the land under rural municipality&rsquo;s potato pocket programme.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">&ldquo;Potato farming has changed shape of barren land. Local farmers are excited to give continuity to the potato farming in the next year as well. Locals will make income if the weather remains favourable,&rdquo; Thapa said.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">The rural municipality has allocated Rs 1.2 million for potato pocket programme in the current fiscal year.&nbsp;Lagnasil Multipurpose Farmers&rsquo; Group and Agriculture Herbs and Livestock Farmers&rsquo; Group have been provided with Rs 6 lakhs each for potato cultivation, said a source at the rural municipality.</span></p>
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			'title' => 'Lalbandi Exports Agricultural Produce Worth Over Rs 1 Billion in Seven Months',
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			'summary' => 'Lalbandi agriculture wholesale bazaar management committee has exported agricultural products worth over Rs 1 billion in seven months of the current fiscal year, 2022/23.',
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<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><span style="font-family:Arial,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">February 24: Lalbandi&nbsp;agriculture wholesale bazaar management committee&nbsp;exported agricultural products worth over Rs 1 billion in seven months of the current fiscal year, 2022/23. </span></span></span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><span style="font-family:Arial,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">The committee at Lalbandi Municipality-7 exported agricultural produces worth Rs 1.06 billion between 17 July, 2022 and 12 February, 2023,&nbsp;committee manager Shambhu Ghimire said. </span></span></span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><span style="font-family:Arial,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">The exported agricultural products include tomato, eggplant, black-eyed bean, bottle gourd, bitter gourd, cucumber, cauliflower, cabbage, sponge gourd, green bean, lady finger, radish, green chili, carrot, lamb&#39;s quarter, pointed gourd, jackfruit, pumpkin, coriander, lemon, ginger, pea, onion and capsicum, among others. </span></span></span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><span style="font-family:Arial,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">The agricultural products produced mostly in Lalbandi, Hariwan, Haripur and Ishworpur in Sarlahi district were&nbsp; exported to the places outside the district including Sindhuli, Ramechhap, Kathmandu, Pokhara, Butwal, Bhairahawa, Narayangadh, Nepalgunj, Hetauda, Birgunj, Gaur, Janakpur, Siraha, Biratnagar and Ithari among others, said the committee chair Toran Bahadur Magar. </span></span></span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><span style="font-family:Arial,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">&nbsp;The foundation stone has been laid for a six-room building of&nbsp;the committee, which is under the purview of the federal government. The over Rs 5 million project will be completed within the current fiscal year, said Magar.&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></p>
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			'title' => 'Parbat Exports Oranges Worth Around Rs 300 Million',
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			'summary' => ' Orange production has increased by around 25 percent in the current fiscal as compared to last year in Parbat district. ',
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<p>February 20: Orange production has increased by around 25 percent in the current fiscal as compared to last year in Parbat district.&nbsp;<br />
According to the Agriculture Knowledge Centre, Parbat, both--area for orange farming and production have increased in the district this year.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The district produced 5,000 metric tonnes of orange from 830 hectares of land this year. Of it, 4,250 metric tonnes of orange were exported.&nbsp;<br />
Senior Agriculture Development Officer, Manita Thapa, said the district made Rs 297 million income from it. A total of 4,000 metric tonnes of orange was produced from 450 hectares of land in the district last fiscal-year.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Orange produced in the district is sold in Pokhara, Kathmandu, Butwal and Pokhara. Thapa added favourable weather is one of the reasons behind the increase of orange production this year. ---RSS&nbsp;<br />
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			'summary' => 'Milk producing farmers have warned of staging a protest if the government does not increase the price of milk in Tanahun. In a press meet organized at Damuli of  Tanahun on Sunday,  Tanahun District Milk Producers Cooperatives Union warned of staging the agitation if the government did not raise the prices of the milk.',
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<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">February 13: Milk producing farmers have warned of staging a protest if the government does not increase the price of milk in Tanahun.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In a press meet organized at Damuli of&nbsp; Tanahun on Sunday,&nbsp; Tanahun District Milk Producers Cooperatives Union warned of staging the agitation if the government did not raise the prices of the milk.</span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Farmers complained that prices of the milk had not increased though prices of all other daily essentials had skyrocketed in the market.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Union&rsquo;s Chairman Amar Bahadur Kunwar claimed that they would hike the prices themselves if the government did not increase the value of the milk by February 13.</span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Chairman Kunwar said that they would give pressure to the government from 64 districts to up the prices. The selling price of the milk is Rs 64 per liter in the district at the moment. &ldquo;The government has to raise the price by Rs 20 to cover the cost,&rdquo; said Kunwar.</span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Farmers involved in animal husbandry are forced to change their profession for failing to get the right prices for their produce.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Tanahun would produce 14,000 liters of milk in the pre-COVID years on a daily basis. However, the district produces only 4500 liters of the milk at the moment , according to Kunwar.</span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">According to Manager Raju Bhujel of the Tanahun District Milk Producers&rsquo; Cooperatives Union, as many as 1154 farmers are involved in milk producing profession under 15 cooperatives in the district.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The association had sold 1.7 million liters of the milk worth Rs 140 million last year.</span></span></p>
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			'title' => 'Tharu Women Enjoying in Collective  Agriculture in Chitwan ',
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			'summary' => 'Until a few years ago, Tharu women would be busy doing just household chores at Gardi of Madi Municiplaity-1, Chitwan. The women’s daily routine, however, has changed after females from Tharu community started becoming active in agriculture.',
			'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px">January 26: Until a few years ago, Tharu women would be busy doing just household chores at Gardi of Madi Municiplaity-1, Chitwan.&nbsp;The women&rsquo;s daily routine, however, has changed after females from Tharu community started becoming active in agriculture.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">As many as 55 Tharu women are collectively involved in commercial agriculture and they are making good income from their work.&nbsp;Women have kept local chickens, ducks, and fish. They have also grown bananas in the group.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">For commercial agriculture, women have established Tharu Women Farmers&rsquo; Group. &ldquo;We are buying the seeds and fertiliser and selling the produce through the group,&rdquo; said group&rsquo;s chairperson Hiramani Guraule.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Initially, the group had 98 members. Some have left the group, while others have switched their business. &ldquo;The group has 55 members and all of us are very active,&rdquo; added Hiramani.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">The group&rsquo;s firm has 500 ducklings. The group is planning to add 500 extra ducklings after the winter season is over.&nbsp;<br />
The Tharu women have also started mushroom farming.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">According to Hiramani, they had faced difficulty in the initial&nbsp;days. But, keeping ducks and hens and growing bananas have become easy after receiving training from technicians.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Customers visit the farms to purchase ducks, chickens and fish. &ldquo;We are failing to meet ducks&rsquo; demand as our products are organic&rdquo;, Hiramani shared.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">The group has invested more than Rs 8 lakhs to construct physical structures for keeping fish, ducks and local chickens.&nbsp;Hiramani says that working in the group has made their work easy and they are making a good income even with small investment.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Earlier, Tharu women used to be doing&nbsp;household chores and spend time collecting firewood from the forest. But, their lives have changed now, says Guraule. Hiramani says that they have set a plan to expand their business and make it more commercial in the days to come.&nbsp;</span></p>

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			'title' => 'Crops Wilt as Winter Rain Eludes Myagdi Farmers',
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			'summary' => 'Prolonged drought has caused the winter crops to wilt leaving the farmers worried in Myagdi. ',
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<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">January 24: Prolonged drought has caused the winter crops to wilt leaving the farmers worried in Myagdi.&nbsp; </span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Winter crops such as wheat and barley have started to wilt due to lack of rain for a long time in mountainous district.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Myagdi has witnessed drop in the production of summer crops of paddy and millet this year. </span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Farmers look worried as wilting of the winter crops caused by prolonged drought is sure to cause the production of winter crops to shrink in the district. </span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The production of wheat, barley, beans, winter potatoes and vegetables will see a sharp decline this year, said senior farmer Chandra Bahadur Karki in Myagdi. </span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Saying that production of winter crops and vegetables will shrink, many farmers appear worried as major source of their livelihood is agriculture. </span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Wheat is grown in around 9,000 hectares of the land in the district. However, only 52 per cent of the land has access to irrigation facility in the district. </span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Some farmers have failed to cultivate wheat for lack of irrigation, said local agriculture technicians.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Winter crops have begun to dry up in the land having no access to the irrigation facility, said Mangala Rural Municipality Agriculture Technician Jagat Baniya. </span></span></p>

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			'title' => 'Paddy Production Tumbles in Gandaki Province ',
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			'summary' => 'Gandaki Province has witnessed fall in paddy production this fiscal year. Paddy production has slumped by 3.74 per cent compared to the last year.',
			'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:20px">January 15: Gandaki Province has witnessed fall in paddy production this fiscal year. Paddy production has slumped by 3.74 per cent compared to the last year.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">According to data at the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development, the province harvested&nbsp; 3,91,121 metric tons of paddy this year compared to&nbsp;4,06,336 metric tons of paddy last fiscal year. In the province, paddy cultivation area has also shrunk.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">Paddy was cultivated in 1,12,227 hectares of field last year compared to 1,06,380 hectares of land this fiscal year. Compared to other provinces, both paddy production and paddy cultivation area have decreased in Gandaki Province. </span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">&ldquo;Shrinking of paddy plantation field due to rise of houses and housing plots has led to drop in paddy produce,&rdquo; said Basudev Regmi, Chief of Agriculture Development Directorate of the province.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">&ldquo;Urbanization and commercialization have increased in the arable land and land going barren have also soared, causing the paddy produce to fall,&rdquo; added Regmi.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">Regmi warned that rising tendency to construct houses in the arable land would make country more dependent on food in the days to come.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">Adverse weather, shortage of chemical fertilizer, and substandard seeds have also caused the paddy produce to shrink, Regmi described.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">Farmers had experienced fertilizer crunch at the time of paddy cultivation. Similarly, heavy rains had damaged the paddy at the time to bear the rice.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">Farmer Baikuntha Sapkota of Baglung Municiplaity-3 says that he had harvested just 10 muri of paddy this year compared to 19 muri(traditional way of measurement) last fiscal.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">Sapkota complained pests control,&nbsp; shortage of improved seeds and fertilizer management have always remained&nbsp;challenges for farmers.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">Paddy productivity, however, has increased in all&nbsp;provinces this year. Productivity has gone up by 1.55 per cent in per hectare of the paddy field this year. Use of improved seeds, and improvement of cultivation have improved productivity, according to Agriculture Knowledge Center Baglung Chief Bhanubhakta Bhattarai.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">Bhattarai said paddy produce declined five per cent in Baglung&nbsp;this fiscal year. Unseasonal rainfall had damaged the paddy production in the district.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">Baglung&rsquo;s Galkot and Balewa, Gorkha&rsquo;s Palungtar, Kaski&rsquo;s Lekhnath, Syangja&rsquo;s aandhikhola Kinar, Waling, Tanahun&rsquo;s Bhimad, Nawalpur&rsquo;s Triveni and Madhyabindu and Parbat&rsquo;s Faleshwal are pocket areas for paddy production in Gandaki Province.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">Farmers have been planting various types of paddy including Ram, Sunaulosugandh, Loktantnatra, Khumal, improved Jethobudho in the province.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">After Gandaki, Bagmati Province witnessed fall of paddy produce by 1.45 per cent this fiscal. Bagamti province had produced 5,07,789 metric tons of paddy last year &nbsp;compared to 5,00446 metric tons of the paddy this year.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">Paddy production, nevertheless, increased &nbsp;in remaining five provinces.&nbsp;<br />
Paddy production jumped by the highest rate of 33.33 per cent in Sudurpaschim Province. The province produced 5,89,221 metric tons of paddy this fiscal year compared to 4,41,913 metric tons of the paddy last year.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">Country recorded production of 54,86,472 metric tons of paddy this year compared to 51,30,625 metric tons of rice last fiscal.&nbsp;</span></p>
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			'title' => 'Milk production Declines by 6 per cent in Madhes Province ',
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			'summary' => 'Milk production has shrunk in Madhes province. ',
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<span style="font-size:18px">January 4: Milk production has shrunk in Madhes province.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">A survey on Madhes Province&rsquo;s Provincial Economic Activities by Nepal Rastra Bank shows that milk production has fallen by 6.03 per cent.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Madhes province produced 60,05,95,000 liters of milk in the last fiscal year of 2078/79. However, the milk production was 63,91,06,000 liters in the previous fiscal. &nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">During the review period, Siraha has contributed to the highest quantity of milk production.</span><br />
&nbsp;</p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">&nbsp;In the last fiscal year, Siraha produced 12, 61,41,000 liters of milk out of the total mil production in the province. The district recorded milk production of 12,24,70,000 liters in the fiscal year of 2077/78.&nbsp;</span><br />
&nbsp;</p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">In the last fiscal year, Rautahat produced the least quantity of milk in the province. The district produced just 2,09,10,000 liters of milk against 7,32,15000 liters of milk generated in the previous fiscal year. The district saw 71 per cent decline in the milk production.&nbsp;</span></p>

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			'summary' => 'Farmers have kick-started collective potato farming at Chapakot Municipality, syangja.  Potato planted by farmers through the different groups in the plains of Chapakot is ready to be harvested.',
			'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px">March 15: Farmers have kick-started collective potato farming at Chapakot Municipality, Syangja.&nbsp;<br />
Potato planted by farmers through the different groups in the plains of Chapakot is ready to be harvested.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Local farmers have implemented collective potato farming in wards no 8,9, 10 of Chapakot Municipality, Syangja.<br />
Coordinator Ramu Bashyal of Belchaur Seetaltar Farmers Group said that they had been attracted towards the collective farming as plantation of the potato in group would make the potato cultivation easy and cost-effective rather than individual farming.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">&nbsp;&ldquo;For want of people to work in the farm, cultivation would be tough. But, working in the group has made it easy. Collective farming has enabled to earn skills and technology for the cultivation,&rdquo; Bashyal stated. According to him, the 450 kilograms of potatoes was planted in four ropani land for the first time.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">As many as 22 individuals are directly involved in the potato farming. The group could not produce the potato as expected due to lack of irrigation facility this time. &ldquo;We have produced more than 1100 kilograms of potato. We shall sell the produce through the group,&rdquo; Bashyal added.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Belchaur Seetaltar Mothers Group Chair Ishwori Bashyal says that planting potato collectively is far easier than doing it individually. &ldquo;We get a chance to learn and apply new skill and technology while cultivating the potato through the group,&rdquo; Ishwori Bashyal said.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">According to Surya Majhi of Chapakot-10, potato has been cultivated in 11 different toles by forming groups consisting of 35/40 individuals. Mothers and sisters have formed 11 different groups and planted potato in ward no 10 alone.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">&ldquo;We have amalgamated old and new groups and cultivated the potatoes targeting to make the ward 10 pocket area for potato,&rdquo; Majhi said. Potato&nbsp;has been planted in 150 ropani of the land in Chapakot-10.&nbsp;The concept of collective potato farming is also being executed at ward-8 of Chapakot, ward chair Toplal Neupane said.&nbsp;</span><br />
&nbsp;</p>
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			'created' => '2023-03-15',
			'modified' => '2023-03-15',
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			'id' => '17247',
			'article_category_id' => '277',
			'title' => 'Agro Production Surges In Sudurpaschim Province',
			'sub_title' => '',
			'summary' => 'Sudurpaschim Province has witnessed rise in production and productivity of agriculture sector in the last few years. Agriculture sector saw its production increased after farmers started commercial farming.',
			'content' => '<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">&nbsp;March 13: Sudurpaschim Province has witnessed rise in production and productivity of agriculture sector in the last few years. Agriculture sector saw its production increased after farmers started commercial farming.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Director Yagyaraj Joshi at the Agriculture Directorate Dipayal Office said that agricultural production had surged by two percent. &ldquo;Agricultural production has risen by 2 percent while fruit production has also gone up remarkably,&rdquo; said Joshi.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">According to the data at Ministry of Land Management, Agriculture, and Cooperative, major food crops were cultivated in 3,16,789 hectares of the land in fiscal year 2074/75 BS compared to 3,63,793 hectares of the land in the fiscal year of 2078/79.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Productivity of the food crops has increased from 2.7 metric tons per hectare to 3.7 metric tons per hectare. Production of paddy and wheat has surged by 3.5 percent.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Under seed increase programme, seeds of paddy, wheat, maize, potato, vegetables, and mustard oil are being produced in the province. Seed increase programme is being run to increase the seeds of vegetables and food items through Farmers&rsquo; Group and Farmers&rsquo; Cooperative to make the province self-dependent by&nbsp;replacing&nbsp;the import.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Eighteen seed processing and companies have been set up in Kailali, Dadeldhura, Baitadi and Kanchanpur districts, helping the marketing of seeds.&nbsp;&nbsp;Produced seeds are being exported to various districts.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">More than 4,491 families have been provided with power tillers, mini-tillers, rotavators, among others, on 50 percent grants. Farmers&rsquo; group and Farmer Cooperative have rented 74 bigaha land of Rastriya Aabash Company Limited and have been producing seeds of paddy, wheat, and mustard oil.&nbsp;</span></p>
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			'created' => '2023-03-13',
			'modified' => '2023-03-13',
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			'description' => '',
			'sortorder' => '16985',
			'image' => '20230313055533_collage - 2023-03-12T185216.087.jpg',
			'article_date' => '2023-03-13 05:47:16',
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			'id' => '17233',
			'article_category_id' => '277',
			'title' => 'Tanahun Farmers Get Improved Maize Seeds ',
			'sub_title' => '',
			'summary' => 'With an aim to ensure more productions, the Vyas Municipality in Tanahun district has provided as many as six metric tonnes of improved corn seeds to the farmers in grant.',
			'content' => '<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">March 10: With an aim to ensure more productions, the Vyas Municipality in Tanahun district has provided as many as six metric tonnes of improved corn seeds to the farmers in grant.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">The farmers were provided the maize seeds with 50 per cent in grant. Section Officer of Agriculture Section of the municipality Pratima Bagale said farmers from all 14 wards in the municipality were given improved maize seeds of Arun-2, Rampur Composite, Manakamana-3 and other improved seeds.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">&quot;So far, we have distributed six metric tonnes of corn seeds. The distribution is ongoing,&quot; Bagale said. Bagale said that the move is aimed at making the farmers self-reliant and attract people them towards commercial farming.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Prior to this, the municipality had distributed 22 metric tonnes of potato seeds. The municipality is also planning to distribute the beehives to some 100 beekeepers. ---RSS</span><br />
&nbsp;</p>
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			'created' => '2023-03-10',
			'modified' => '2023-03-10',
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			'description' => '',
			'sortorder' => '16971',
			'image' => '20230310034843_collage - 2023-03-10T154225.264.jpg',
			'article_date' => '2023-03-10 15:46:57',
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			'id' => '17195',
			'article_category_id' => '277',
			'title' => 'Honey Processing Industry Come into Operation ',
			'sub_title' => '',
			'summary' => ' A honey Processing Industry has come into operation at Shivsatakshi Municipality, Jhapa. Female bee keepers have set up the honey processing plant for the first time in the district.',
			'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px">March 7: A honey Processing Industry has come into operation at Shivsatakshi Municipality, Jhapa. Female bee keepers&nbsp;have set up the honey processing plant for the first time in the district.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Satashi Women Bee Keeping Association, Sahara Nepal and Hokse Agriculture Cooperative have jointly established Sahara Satakshi Women Bee Honey Industry at the cost of Rs 12.5 million, according to industry&rsquo;s Coordinator Devi Kumari Oli Dahal.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Coordinator&nbsp;Dahal informed that the plant was processing more than 10,000 metric tons of honey in a year. A farming is&nbsp;being done for the commercial production of the honey in Satakshi Municipality.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Since honey is being processed with modern machine, we don&rsquo;t have the problem for its marketing, said farmer Dhanmaya Pathak.&nbsp; Seven females are employed at the plant in the first phase. </span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Locals of Shivsatakshi-11 have kept beehives ranging from 10 to 250 on average as ward No 11 has been declared bee keeping block area.&nbsp; More than 300 women have been doing&nbsp; bee keeping&nbsp;commercially and have been producing more than 60 tons of honey at Shivsatakshi-11 annually.&nbsp;</span></p>
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			'created' => '2023-03-07',
			'modified' => '2023-03-07',
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			'sortorder' => '16933',
			'image' => '20230307065100_collage (17).jpg',
			'article_date' => '2023-03-07 06:42:05',
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			'id' => '17192',
			'article_category_id' => '277',
			'title' => 'Commercial Farming  Of Dragon Fruit Starts In Parbat ',
			'sub_title' => '',
			'summary' => 'Commercial farming of dragon fruit has started for the first time in Parbat. Farmer Dilli Prasad Lamichhane of Parbat’s Kusma Municipality-9 has begun the commercial farming of the dragon fruit. ',
			'content' => '<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">March 6: Commercial farming of dragon fruit has started for the first time in Parbat. Farmer Dilli Prasad Lamichhane of Parbat&rsquo;s Kusma Municipality-9 has begun the commercial farming of the dragon fruit.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Farmer Lamichhane has planted 1200 saplings of dragon fruit. Dragon fruit is strange to many people in the district.&nbsp; &ldquo;We have 1300 ropani of the land. We are planning to bring 800 more saplings of the dragon fruit by adding 200 pillars. We shall cultivate grass and banana in the rets of the land,&rdquo; said Lamichhane.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Lamichhane is an&nbsp;office assistant of Katuwachupari Health Post. Along with dragon fruit, he has also been involved in animal husbandry. He sells milk at the headquarters in the morning and keeps himself busy in tending dragon fruit in the day time.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">&ldquo;Since income from job is not enough to improve financial condition, I have started dragon fruit cultivation,&rdquo; he added.<br />
Dragon fruit can be cultivated at an altitude of 1500 meters that receives adequate sun.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Two years after their plantation, dragon plants start bearing fruit. Its fruit weighs from 150 grams to 1 kilogram. Of late, the dragon fruit is being planted in flower pot, rooftop and house yard.&nbsp;</span><br />
&nbsp;</p>
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			'article_date' => '2023-03-06 17:14:02',
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			'id' => '17175',
			'article_category_id' => '277',
			'title' => 'Sugar Mill Faces Sugarcane Scarcity ',
			'sub_title' => '',
			'summary' => 'Baba Baijanath Sugar Mill has not been able to crush sugarcanes in accordance  with its capacity in Rautahat. ',
			'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px">March 5: Baba Baijanath Sugar Mill has not been able to crush sugarcanes in accordance &nbsp;with its capacity in Rautahat.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Following the decline of sugarcane production in the district, the mill has been experiencing dearth of sugarcanes for the last few years. The mill has capacity to crush 20,000 quintals of sugarcane in a day. The mill, however, is crushing the less than 7,000 quintals of the sugarcane on a daily basis.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Sugar Mill Proprietor Baiju Babara complained that sugarcane shortage had put the mill on the verge of closure.&nbsp;<br />
The mill had crushed just 0.6 million quintals of sugarcane last year. &ldquo;Operating the mill below its capacity has incurred heavy loss for the mill,&rdquo; said Babara.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Farmers have reduced the cultivation of the sugarcane due to some sugar mills&rsquo; failure to pay the farmers on regular basis. Mill proprietor Babara says that his mill has no issue regarding the payment to the sugarcane farmers. &ldquo;We have been paying the sugarcane farmers at their doorstep and encouraging them. Despite this, the production has declined,&rdquo; Babara said.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Farmers from Bara and Sarlahi used to sell sugarcane to the mill. The government ban to sell sugarcane from one district to another has aggravated the scarcity of the sugarcane, according to Barabara.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Baijanath Sugar Mill has been helping farmers with seed, fertilizer and payment at their place. Besides, the mill&nbsp;has also provided a cane harvester to the farmers.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Rautahat used to produce more than 2 million quintals of sugarcane in the past. The sugarcane production stands at between 1 to 1.2 million quintals a year at the moment, according to Sugarcane Producers&rsquo; Association Rautahat said.&nbsp; The mill has to be shut down earlier though the mill would operate till April in normal condition, said Baijanath.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><br />
&nbsp;</p>
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			'created' => '2023-03-05',
			'modified' => '2023-03-05',
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			'sortorder' => '16913',
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			'article_date' => '2023-03-05 07:06:20',
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			'id' => '17160',
			'article_category_id' => '277',
			'title' => 'Twenty-eight Percent Arable Land Barren in Karnali Province ',
			'sub_title' => '',
			'summary' => 'Twenty eight per cent of arable land has remained uncultivated in Karnali Province.   Despite the province government’s policy to utilize barren land, a large swathe of land is lying barren and uncultivated owing to the lax implementation of the policy.',
			'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px">March 3: Twenty eight per cent of arable land has remained uncultivated in Karnali Province.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Despite the province government&rsquo;s policy to utilize barren land, a large swathe of land is lying barren and uncultivated owing to the lax implementation of the policy.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">&nbsp;Karnali Province faces a shortage of food every year. According to the Ministry of Land Management, Agriculture, and Cooperative, out of the total arable land, only 72 per cent has been utilized for farming.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Occupying 22 per cent area of the total geography of the country, seventy-four percent people rely on agriculture in Karnali Province. Home to 99,339 hectares of the arable land, the province produces 3,39,909 metric tons of the food in a year, while the province requires 3,58316 metric tons of the food &nbsp;yearly.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">The Ministry&rsquo;s Spokesperson Dhan Bahadur Kathayat said that the ministry had emphasized for the cultivation of fruits and vegetables in the uncultivated land.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">&ldquo;We have devised various plans to utilize unused and barren land. We are encouraging farmers for apple farming in mountainous districts and orange, kiwi and other fruits in hilly districts,&rdquo; Kathayat said.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">The province government says that it has been utilizing barren land to reduce poverty and end food shortage&nbsp;in the province.&nbsp;</span><br />
&nbsp;</p>
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			'created' => '2023-03-02',
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			'sortorder' => '16898',
			'image' => '20230302042542_collage - 2023-03-02T162321.051.jpg',
			'article_date' => '2023-03-02 16:21:05',
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		'Article' => array(
			'id' => '17120',
			'article_category_id' => '277',
			'title' => 'Collective Potato Farming in Barren Land ',
			'sub_title' => '',
			'summary' => 'Local farmers have started commercial potato farming at the land uncultivated for the last 20 years at Mareni of Dhawalagiri Rural Municiplaity-2, Myagdi. ',
			'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px">February 26: &nbsp;Local farmers&nbsp;have started commercial potato farming at the land uncultivated for the last 20 years at Mareni of Dhawalagiri Rural Municiplaity-2, Myagdi.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Lagansil Multipurpose Framers&rsquo; Group have cleared bushes&nbsp;at 44 ropani land and started&nbsp;collective potato farming.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">&ldquo;We have cleared the bushes, tilled the land and planted potatoes,&rdquo; said the group&rsquo;s chair Gausara BK. According to BK, eighteen persons have started commercial potato farming. The group is preparing to plant potato in 100 ropani land by expanding the farming to Paireni, and Lamsung as well.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">The group has&nbsp;planted 20 muri potato seeds in the rented land of local people.&nbsp;Rural municipality&rsquo;s agriculture branch&rsquo;s technical assistant Amrit Thapa said that farmers&rsquo; group had planted local species of potatoes in 44 ropani of the land under rural municipality&rsquo;s potato pocket programme.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">&ldquo;Potato farming has changed shape of barren land. Local farmers are excited to give continuity to the potato farming in the next year as well. Locals will make income if the weather remains favourable,&rdquo; Thapa said.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">The rural municipality has allocated Rs 1.2 million for potato pocket programme in the current fiscal year.&nbsp;Lagnasil Multipurpose Farmers&rsquo; Group and Agriculture Herbs and Livestock Farmers&rsquo; Group have been provided with Rs 6 lakhs each for potato cultivation, said a source at the rural municipality.</span></p>
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			'created' => '2023-02-26',
			'modified' => '2023-02-26',
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			'description' => '',
			'sortorder' => '16858',
			'image' => '20230226062919_collage (4).jpg',
			'article_date' => '2023-02-26 06:17:19',
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		'Article' => array(
			'id' => '17108',
			'article_category_id' => '277',
			'title' => 'Lalbandi Exports Agricultural Produce Worth Over Rs 1 Billion in Seven Months',
			'sub_title' => '',
			'summary' => 'Lalbandi agriculture wholesale bazaar management committee has exported agricultural products worth over Rs 1 billion in seven months of the current fiscal year, 2022/23.',
			'content' => '<h4>&nbsp;</h4>

<div>
<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><span style="font-family:Arial,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">February 24: Lalbandi&nbsp;agriculture wholesale bazaar management committee&nbsp;exported agricultural products worth over Rs 1 billion in seven months of the current fiscal year, 2022/23. </span></span></span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><span style="font-family:Arial,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">The committee at Lalbandi Municipality-7 exported agricultural produces worth Rs 1.06 billion between 17 July, 2022 and 12 February, 2023,&nbsp;committee manager Shambhu Ghimire said. </span></span></span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><span style="font-family:Arial,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">The exported agricultural products include tomato, eggplant, black-eyed bean, bottle gourd, bitter gourd, cucumber, cauliflower, cabbage, sponge gourd, green bean, lady finger, radish, green chili, carrot, lamb&#39;s quarter, pointed gourd, jackfruit, pumpkin, coriander, lemon, ginger, pea, onion and capsicum, among others. </span></span></span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><span style="font-family:Arial,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">The agricultural products produced mostly in Lalbandi, Hariwan, Haripur and Ishworpur in Sarlahi district were&nbsp; exported to the places outside the district including Sindhuli, Ramechhap, Kathmandu, Pokhara, Butwal, Bhairahawa, Narayangadh, Nepalgunj, Hetauda, Birgunj, Gaur, Janakpur, Siraha, Biratnagar and Ithari among others, said the committee chair Toran Bahadur Magar. </span></span></span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><span style="font-family:Arial,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">&nbsp;The foundation stone has been laid for a six-room building of&nbsp;the committee, which is under the purview of the federal government. The over Rs 5 million project will be completed within the current fiscal year, said Magar.&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></p>
</div>
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			'created' => '2023-02-24',
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			'sortorder' => '16846',
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		'Article' => array(
			'id' => '17074',
			'article_category_id' => '277',
			'title' => 'Parbat Exports Oranges Worth Around Rs 300 Million',
			'sub_title' => '',
			'summary' => ' Orange production has increased by around 25 percent in the current fiscal as compared to last year in Parbat district. ',
			'content' => '<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>February 20: Orange production has increased by around 25 percent in the current fiscal as compared to last year in Parbat district.&nbsp;<br />
According to the Agriculture Knowledge Centre, Parbat, both--area for orange farming and production have increased in the district this year.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The district produced 5,000 metric tonnes of orange from 830 hectares of land this year. Of it, 4,250 metric tonnes of orange were exported.&nbsp;<br />
Senior Agriculture Development Officer, Manita Thapa, said the district made Rs 297 million income from it. A total of 4,000 metric tonnes of orange was produced from 450 hectares of land in the district last fiscal-year.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Orange produced in the district is sold in Pokhara, Kathmandu, Butwal and Pokhara. Thapa added favourable weather is one of the reasons behind the increase of orange production this year. ---RSS&nbsp;<br />
&nbsp;</p>
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			'image' => '20230220054110_20230220012636_orange.jpg',
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			'title' => 'Milk Producing Farmers to Protest For Fair Price',
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			'summary' => 'Milk producing farmers have warned of staging a protest if the government does not increase the price of milk in Tanahun. In a press meet organized at Damuli of  Tanahun on Sunday,  Tanahun District Milk Producers Cooperatives Union warned of staging the agitation if the government did not raise the prices of the milk.',
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<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">February 13: Milk producing farmers have warned of staging a protest if the government does not increase the price of milk in Tanahun.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In a press meet organized at Damuli of&nbsp; Tanahun on Sunday,&nbsp; Tanahun District Milk Producers Cooperatives Union warned of staging the agitation if the government did not raise the prices of the milk.</span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Farmers complained that prices of the milk had not increased though prices of all other daily essentials had skyrocketed in the market.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Union&rsquo;s Chairman Amar Bahadur Kunwar claimed that they would hike the prices themselves if the government did not increase the value of the milk by February 13.</span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Chairman Kunwar said that they would give pressure to the government from 64 districts to up the prices. The selling price of the milk is Rs 64 per liter in the district at the moment. &ldquo;The government has to raise the price by Rs 20 to cover the cost,&rdquo; said Kunwar.</span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Farmers involved in animal husbandry are forced to change their profession for failing to get the right prices for their produce.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Tanahun would produce 14,000 liters of milk in the pre-COVID years on a daily basis. However, the district produces only 4500 liters of the milk at the moment , according to Kunwar.</span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">According to Manager Raju Bhujel of the Tanahun District Milk Producers&rsquo; Cooperatives Union, as many as 1154 farmers are involved in milk producing profession under 15 cooperatives in the district.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The association had sold 1.7 million liters of the milk worth Rs 140 million last year.</span></span></p>
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			'title' => 'Tharu Women Enjoying in Collective  Agriculture in Chitwan ',
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			'summary' => 'Until a few years ago, Tharu women would be busy doing just household chores at Gardi of Madi Municiplaity-1, Chitwan. The women’s daily routine, however, has changed after females from Tharu community started becoming active in agriculture.',
			'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px">January 26: Until a few years ago, Tharu women would be busy doing just household chores at Gardi of Madi Municiplaity-1, Chitwan.&nbsp;The women&rsquo;s daily routine, however, has changed after females from Tharu community started becoming active in agriculture.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">As many as 55 Tharu women are collectively involved in commercial agriculture and they are making good income from their work.&nbsp;Women have kept local chickens, ducks, and fish. They have also grown bananas in the group.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">For commercial agriculture, women have established Tharu Women Farmers&rsquo; Group. &ldquo;We are buying the seeds and fertiliser and selling the produce through the group,&rdquo; said group&rsquo;s chairperson Hiramani Guraule.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Initially, the group had 98 members. Some have left the group, while others have switched their business. &ldquo;The group has 55 members and all of us are very active,&rdquo; added Hiramani.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">The group&rsquo;s firm has 500 ducklings. The group is planning to add 500 extra ducklings after the winter season is over.&nbsp;<br />
The Tharu women have also started mushroom farming.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">According to Hiramani, they had faced difficulty in the initial&nbsp;days. But, keeping ducks and hens and growing bananas have become easy after receiving training from technicians.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Customers visit the farms to purchase ducks, chickens and fish. &ldquo;We are failing to meet ducks&rsquo; demand as our products are organic&rdquo;, Hiramani shared.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">The group has invested more than Rs 8 lakhs to construct physical structures for keeping fish, ducks and local chickens.&nbsp;Hiramani says that working in the group has made their work easy and they are making a good income even with small investment.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Earlier, Tharu women used to be doing&nbsp;household chores and spend time collecting firewood from the forest. But, their lives have changed now, says Guraule. Hiramani says that they have set a plan to expand their business and make it more commercial in the days to come.&nbsp;</span></p>

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			'title' => 'Crops Wilt as Winter Rain Eludes Myagdi Farmers',
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			'summary' => 'Prolonged drought has caused the winter crops to wilt leaving the farmers worried in Myagdi. ',
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<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">January 24: Prolonged drought has caused the winter crops to wilt leaving the farmers worried in Myagdi.&nbsp; </span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Winter crops such as wheat and barley have started to wilt due to lack of rain for a long time in mountainous district.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Myagdi has witnessed drop in the production of summer crops of paddy and millet this year. </span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Farmers look worried as wilting of the winter crops caused by prolonged drought is sure to cause the production of winter crops to shrink in the district. </span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The production of wheat, barley, beans, winter potatoes and vegetables will see a sharp decline this year, said senior farmer Chandra Bahadur Karki in Myagdi. </span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Saying that production of winter crops and vegetables will shrink, many farmers appear worried as major source of their livelihood is agriculture. </span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Wheat is grown in around 9,000 hectares of the land in the district. However, only 52 per cent of the land has access to irrigation facility in the district. </span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Some farmers have failed to cultivate wheat for lack of irrigation, said local agriculture technicians.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Winter crops have begun to dry up in the land having no access to the irrigation facility, said Mangala Rural Municipality Agriculture Technician Jagat Baniya. </span></span></p>

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			'title' => 'Paddy Production Tumbles in Gandaki Province ',
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			'summary' => 'Gandaki Province has witnessed fall in paddy production this fiscal year. Paddy production has slumped by 3.74 per cent compared to the last year.',
			'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:20px">January 15: Gandaki Province has witnessed fall in paddy production this fiscal year. Paddy production has slumped by 3.74 per cent compared to the last year.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">According to data at the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development, the province harvested&nbsp; 3,91,121 metric tons of paddy this year compared to&nbsp;4,06,336 metric tons of paddy last fiscal year. In the province, paddy cultivation area has also shrunk.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">Paddy was cultivated in 1,12,227 hectares of field last year compared to 1,06,380 hectares of land this fiscal year. Compared to other provinces, both paddy production and paddy cultivation area have decreased in Gandaki Province. </span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">&ldquo;Shrinking of paddy plantation field due to rise of houses and housing plots has led to drop in paddy produce,&rdquo; said Basudev Regmi, Chief of Agriculture Development Directorate of the province.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">&ldquo;Urbanization and commercialization have increased in the arable land and land going barren have also soared, causing the paddy produce to fall,&rdquo; added Regmi.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">Regmi warned that rising tendency to construct houses in the arable land would make country more dependent on food in the days to come.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">Adverse weather, shortage of chemical fertilizer, and substandard seeds have also caused the paddy produce to shrink, Regmi described.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">Farmers had experienced fertilizer crunch at the time of paddy cultivation. Similarly, heavy rains had damaged the paddy at the time to bear the rice.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">Farmer Baikuntha Sapkota of Baglung Municiplaity-3 says that he had harvested just 10 muri of paddy this year compared to 19 muri(traditional way of measurement) last fiscal.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">Sapkota complained pests control,&nbsp; shortage of improved seeds and fertilizer management have always remained&nbsp;challenges for farmers.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">Paddy productivity, however, has increased in all&nbsp;provinces this year. Productivity has gone up by 1.55 per cent in per hectare of the paddy field this year. Use of improved seeds, and improvement of cultivation have improved productivity, according to Agriculture Knowledge Center Baglung Chief Bhanubhakta Bhattarai.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">Bhattarai said paddy produce declined five per cent in Baglung&nbsp;this fiscal year. Unseasonal rainfall had damaged the paddy production in the district.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">Baglung&rsquo;s Galkot and Balewa, Gorkha&rsquo;s Palungtar, Kaski&rsquo;s Lekhnath, Syangja&rsquo;s aandhikhola Kinar, Waling, Tanahun&rsquo;s Bhimad, Nawalpur&rsquo;s Triveni and Madhyabindu and Parbat&rsquo;s Faleshwal are pocket areas for paddy production in Gandaki Province.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">Farmers have been planting various types of paddy including Ram, Sunaulosugandh, Loktantnatra, Khumal, improved Jethobudho in the province.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">After Gandaki, Bagmati Province witnessed fall of paddy produce by 1.45 per cent this fiscal. Bagamti province had produced 5,07,789 metric tons of paddy last year &nbsp;compared to 5,00446 metric tons of the paddy this year.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">Paddy production, nevertheless, increased &nbsp;in remaining five provinces.&nbsp;<br />
Paddy production jumped by the highest rate of 33.33 per cent in Sudurpaschim Province. The province produced 5,89,221 metric tons of paddy this fiscal year compared to 4,41,913 metric tons of the paddy last year.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">Country recorded production of 54,86,472 metric tons of paddy this year compared to 51,30,625 metric tons of rice last fiscal.&nbsp;</span></p>
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			'title' => 'Milk production Declines by 6 per cent in Madhes Province ',
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			'summary' => 'Milk production has shrunk in Madhes province. ',
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<span style="font-size:18px">January 4: Milk production has shrunk in Madhes province.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">A survey on Madhes Province&rsquo;s Provincial Economic Activities by Nepal Rastra Bank shows that milk production has fallen by 6.03 per cent.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Madhes province produced 60,05,95,000 liters of milk in the last fiscal year of 2078/79. However, the milk production was 63,91,06,000 liters in the previous fiscal. &nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">During the review period, Siraha has contributed to the highest quantity of milk production.</span><br />
&nbsp;</p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">&nbsp;In the last fiscal year, Siraha produced 12, 61,41,000 liters of milk out of the total mil production in the province. The district recorded milk production of 12,24,70,000 liters in the fiscal year of 2077/78.&nbsp;</span><br />
&nbsp;</p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">In the last fiscal year, Rautahat produced the least quantity of milk in the province. The district produced just 2,09,10,000 liters of milk against 7,32,15000 liters of milk generated in the previous fiscal year. The district saw 71 per cent decline in the milk production.&nbsp;</span></p>

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			'title' => 'Farmers Into Collective Potato Farming ',
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			'summary' => 'Farmers have kick-started collective potato farming at Chapakot Municipality, syangja.  Potato planted by farmers through the different groups in the plains of Chapakot is ready to be harvested.',
			'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px">March 15: Farmers have kick-started collective potato farming at Chapakot Municipality, Syangja.&nbsp;<br />
Potato planted by farmers through the different groups in the plains of Chapakot is ready to be harvested.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Local farmers have implemented collective potato farming in wards no 8,9, 10 of Chapakot Municipality, Syangja.<br />
Coordinator Ramu Bashyal of Belchaur Seetaltar Farmers Group said that they had been attracted towards the collective farming as plantation of the potato in group would make the potato cultivation easy and cost-effective rather than individual farming.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">&nbsp;&ldquo;For want of people to work in the farm, cultivation would be tough. But, working in the group has made it easy. Collective farming has enabled to earn skills and technology for the cultivation,&rdquo; Bashyal stated. According to him, the 450 kilograms of potatoes was planted in four ropani land for the first time.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">As many as 22 individuals are directly involved in the potato farming. The group could not produce the potato as expected due to lack of irrigation facility this time. &ldquo;We have produced more than 1100 kilograms of potato. We shall sell the produce through the group,&rdquo; Bashyal added.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Belchaur Seetaltar Mothers Group Chair Ishwori Bashyal says that planting potato collectively is far easier than doing it individually. &ldquo;We get a chance to learn and apply new skill and technology while cultivating the potato through the group,&rdquo; Ishwori Bashyal said.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">According to Surya Majhi of Chapakot-10, potato has been cultivated in 11 different toles by forming groups consisting of 35/40 individuals. Mothers and sisters have formed 11 different groups and planted potato in ward no 10 alone.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">&ldquo;We have amalgamated old and new groups and cultivated the potatoes targeting to make the ward 10 pocket area for potato,&rdquo; Majhi said. Potato&nbsp;has been planted in 150 ropani of the land in Chapakot-10.&nbsp;The concept of collective potato farming is also being executed at ward-8 of Chapakot, ward chair Toplal Neupane said.&nbsp;</span><br />
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			'title' => 'Agro Production Surges In Sudurpaschim Province',
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			'summary' => 'Sudurpaschim Province has witnessed rise in production and productivity of agriculture sector in the last few years. Agriculture sector saw its production increased after farmers started commercial farming.',
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<p><span style="font-size:18px">&nbsp;March 13: Sudurpaschim Province has witnessed rise in production and productivity of agriculture sector in the last few years. Agriculture sector saw its production increased after farmers started commercial farming.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Director Yagyaraj Joshi at the Agriculture Directorate Dipayal Office said that agricultural production had surged by two percent. &ldquo;Agricultural production has risen by 2 percent while fruit production has also gone up remarkably,&rdquo; said Joshi.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">According to the data at Ministry of Land Management, Agriculture, and Cooperative, major food crops were cultivated in 3,16,789 hectares of the land in fiscal year 2074/75 BS compared to 3,63,793 hectares of the land in the fiscal year of 2078/79.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Productivity of the food crops has increased from 2.7 metric tons per hectare to 3.7 metric tons per hectare. Production of paddy and wheat has surged by 3.5 percent.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Under seed increase programme, seeds of paddy, wheat, maize, potato, vegetables, and mustard oil are being produced in the province. Seed increase programme is being run to increase the seeds of vegetables and food items through Farmers&rsquo; Group and Farmers&rsquo; Cooperative to make the province self-dependent by&nbsp;replacing&nbsp;the import.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Eighteen seed processing and companies have been set up in Kailali, Dadeldhura, Baitadi and Kanchanpur districts, helping the marketing of seeds.&nbsp;&nbsp;Produced seeds are being exported to various districts.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">More than 4,491 families have been provided with power tillers, mini-tillers, rotavators, among others, on 50 percent grants. Farmers&rsquo; group and Farmer Cooperative have rented 74 bigaha land of Rastriya Aabash Company Limited and have been producing seeds of paddy, wheat, and mustard oil.&nbsp;</span></p>
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			'summary' => 'With an aim to ensure more productions, the Vyas Municipality in Tanahun district has provided as many as six metric tonnes of improved corn seeds to the farmers in grant.',
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<p><span style="font-size:18px">March 10: With an aim to ensure more productions, the Vyas Municipality in Tanahun district has provided as many as six metric tonnes of improved corn seeds to the farmers in grant.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">The farmers were provided the maize seeds with 50 per cent in grant. Section Officer of Agriculture Section of the municipality Pratima Bagale said farmers from all 14 wards in the municipality were given improved maize seeds of Arun-2, Rampur Composite, Manakamana-3 and other improved seeds.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">&quot;So far, we have distributed six metric tonnes of corn seeds. The distribution is ongoing,&quot; Bagale said. Bagale said that the move is aimed at making the farmers self-reliant and attract people them towards commercial farming.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Prior to this, the municipality had distributed 22 metric tonnes of potato seeds. The municipality is also planning to distribute the beehives to some 100 beekeepers. ---RSS</span><br />
&nbsp;</p>
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			'id' => '17195',
			'article_category_id' => '277',
			'title' => 'Honey Processing Industry Come into Operation ',
			'sub_title' => '',
			'summary' => ' A honey Processing Industry has come into operation at Shivsatakshi Municipality, Jhapa. Female bee keepers have set up the honey processing plant for the first time in the district.',
			'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px">March 7: A honey Processing Industry has come into operation at Shivsatakshi Municipality, Jhapa. Female bee keepers&nbsp;have set up the honey processing plant for the first time in the district.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Satashi Women Bee Keeping Association, Sahara Nepal and Hokse Agriculture Cooperative have jointly established Sahara Satakshi Women Bee Honey Industry at the cost of Rs 12.5 million, according to industry&rsquo;s Coordinator Devi Kumari Oli Dahal.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Coordinator&nbsp;Dahal informed that the plant was processing more than 10,000 metric tons of honey in a year. A farming is&nbsp;being done for the commercial production of the honey in Satakshi Municipality.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Since honey is being processed with modern machine, we don&rsquo;t have the problem for its marketing, said farmer Dhanmaya Pathak.&nbsp; Seven females are employed at the plant in the first phase. </span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Locals of Shivsatakshi-11 have kept beehives ranging from 10 to 250 on average as ward No 11 has been declared bee keeping block area.&nbsp; More than 300 women have been doing&nbsp; bee keeping&nbsp;commercially and have been producing more than 60 tons of honey at Shivsatakshi-11 annually.&nbsp;</span></p>
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			'title' => 'Commercial Farming  Of Dragon Fruit Starts In Parbat ',
			'sub_title' => '',
			'summary' => 'Commercial farming of dragon fruit has started for the first time in Parbat. Farmer Dilli Prasad Lamichhane of Parbat’s Kusma Municipality-9 has begun the commercial farming of the dragon fruit. ',
			'content' => '<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">March 6: Commercial farming of dragon fruit has started for the first time in Parbat. Farmer Dilli Prasad Lamichhane of Parbat&rsquo;s Kusma Municipality-9 has begun the commercial farming of the dragon fruit.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Farmer Lamichhane has planted 1200 saplings of dragon fruit. Dragon fruit is strange to many people in the district.&nbsp; &ldquo;We have 1300 ropani of the land. We are planning to bring 800 more saplings of the dragon fruit by adding 200 pillars. We shall cultivate grass and banana in the rets of the land,&rdquo; said Lamichhane.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Lamichhane is an&nbsp;office assistant of Katuwachupari Health Post. Along with dragon fruit, he has also been involved in animal husbandry. He sells milk at the headquarters in the morning and keeps himself busy in tending dragon fruit in the day time.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">&ldquo;Since income from job is not enough to improve financial condition, I have started dragon fruit cultivation,&rdquo; he added.<br />
Dragon fruit can be cultivated at an altitude of 1500 meters that receives adequate sun.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Two years after their plantation, dragon plants start bearing fruit. Its fruit weighs from 150 grams to 1 kilogram. Of late, the dragon fruit is being planted in flower pot, rooftop and house yard.&nbsp;</span><br />
&nbsp;</p>
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			'article_date' => '2023-03-06 17:14:02',
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			'id' => '17175',
			'article_category_id' => '277',
			'title' => 'Sugar Mill Faces Sugarcane Scarcity ',
			'sub_title' => '',
			'summary' => 'Baba Baijanath Sugar Mill has not been able to crush sugarcanes in accordance  with its capacity in Rautahat. ',
			'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px">March 5: Baba Baijanath Sugar Mill has not been able to crush sugarcanes in accordance &nbsp;with its capacity in Rautahat.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Following the decline of sugarcane production in the district, the mill has been experiencing dearth of sugarcanes for the last few years. The mill has capacity to crush 20,000 quintals of sugarcane in a day. The mill, however, is crushing the less than 7,000 quintals of the sugarcane on a daily basis.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Sugar Mill Proprietor Baiju Babara complained that sugarcane shortage had put the mill on the verge of closure.&nbsp;<br />
The mill had crushed just 0.6 million quintals of sugarcane last year. &ldquo;Operating the mill below its capacity has incurred heavy loss for the mill,&rdquo; said Babara.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Farmers have reduced the cultivation of the sugarcane due to some sugar mills&rsquo; failure to pay the farmers on regular basis. Mill proprietor Babara says that his mill has no issue regarding the payment to the sugarcane farmers. &ldquo;We have been paying the sugarcane farmers at their doorstep and encouraging them. Despite this, the production has declined,&rdquo; Babara said.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Farmers from Bara and Sarlahi used to sell sugarcane to the mill. The government ban to sell sugarcane from one district to another has aggravated the scarcity of the sugarcane, according to Barabara.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Baijanath Sugar Mill has been helping farmers with seed, fertilizer and payment at their place. Besides, the mill&nbsp;has also provided a cane harvester to the farmers.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Rautahat used to produce more than 2 million quintals of sugarcane in the past. The sugarcane production stands at between 1 to 1.2 million quintals a year at the moment, according to Sugarcane Producers&rsquo; Association Rautahat said.&nbsp; The mill has to be shut down earlier though the mill would operate till April in normal condition, said Baijanath.&nbsp;</span></p>

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			'id' => '17160',
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			'title' => 'Twenty-eight Percent Arable Land Barren in Karnali Province ',
			'sub_title' => '',
			'summary' => 'Twenty eight per cent of arable land has remained uncultivated in Karnali Province.   Despite the province government’s policy to utilize barren land, a large swathe of land is lying barren and uncultivated owing to the lax implementation of the policy.',
			'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px">March 3: Twenty eight per cent of arable land has remained uncultivated in Karnali Province.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Despite the province government&rsquo;s policy to utilize barren land, a large swathe of land is lying barren and uncultivated owing to the lax implementation of the policy.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">&nbsp;Karnali Province faces a shortage of food every year. According to the Ministry of Land Management, Agriculture, and Cooperative, out of the total arable land, only 72 per cent has been utilized for farming.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Occupying 22 per cent area of the total geography of the country, seventy-four percent people rely on agriculture in Karnali Province. Home to 99,339 hectares of the arable land, the province produces 3,39,909 metric tons of the food in a year, while the province requires 3,58316 metric tons of the food &nbsp;yearly.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">The Ministry&rsquo;s Spokesperson Dhan Bahadur Kathayat said that the ministry had emphasized for the cultivation of fruits and vegetables in the uncultivated land.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">&ldquo;We have devised various plans to utilize unused and barren land. We are encouraging farmers for apple farming in mountainous districts and orange, kiwi and other fruits in hilly districts,&rdquo; Kathayat said.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">The province government says that it has been utilizing barren land to reduce poverty and end food shortage&nbsp;in the province.&nbsp;</span><br />
&nbsp;</p>
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			'sortorder' => '16898',
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			'article_date' => '2023-03-02 16:21:05',
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			'id' => '17120',
			'article_category_id' => '277',
			'title' => 'Collective Potato Farming in Barren Land ',
			'sub_title' => '',
			'summary' => 'Local farmers have started commercial potato farming at the land uncultivated for the last 20 years at Mareni of Dhawalagiri Rural Municiplaity-2, Myagdi. ',
			'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px">February 26: &nbsp;Local farmers&nbsp;have started commercial potato farming at the land uncultivated for the last 20 years at Mareni of Dhawalagiri Rural Municiplaity-2, Myagdi.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Lagansil Multipurpose Framers&rsquo; Group have cleared bushes&nbsp;at 44 ropani land and started&nbsp;collective potato farming.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">&ldquo;We have cleared the bushes, tilled the land and planted potatoes,&rdquo; said the group&rsquo;s chair Gausara BK. According to BK, eighteen persons have started commercial potato farming. The group is preparing to plant potato in 100 ropani land by expanding the farming to Paireni, and Lamsung as well.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">The group has&nbsp;planted 20 muri potato seeds in the rented land of local people.&nbsp;Rural municipality&rsquo;s agriculture branch&rsquo;s technical assistant Amrit Thapa said that farmers&rsquo; group had planted local species of potatoes in 44 ropani of the land under rural municipality&rsquo;s potato pocket programme.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">&ldquo;Potato farming has changed shape of barren land. Local farmers are excited to give continuity to the potato farming in the next year as well. Locals will make income if the weather remains favourable,&rdquo; Thapa said.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">The rural municipality has allocated Rs 1.2 million for potato pocket programme in the current fiscal year.&nbsp;Lagnasil Multipurpose Farmers&rsquo; Group and Agriculture Herbs and Livestock Farmers&rsquo; Group have been provided with Rs 6 lakhs each for potato cultivation, said a source at the rural municipality.</span></p>
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			'created' => '2023-02-26',
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			'sortorder' => '16858',
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			'article_date' => '2023-02-26 06:17:19',
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			'id' => '17108',
			'article_category_id' => '277',
			'title' => 'Lalbandi Exports Agricultural Produce Worth Over Rs 1 Billion in Seven Months',
			'sub_title' => '',
			'summary' => 'Lalbandi agriculture wholesale bazaar management committee has exported agricultural products worth over Rs 1 billion in seven months of the current fiscal year, 2022/23.',
			'content' => '<h4>&nbsp;</h4>

<div>
<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><span style="font-family:Arial,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">February 24: Lalbandi&nbsp;agriculture wholesale bazaar management committee&nbsp;exported agricultural products worth over Rs 1 billion in seven months of the current fiscal year, 2022/23. </span></span></span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><span style="font-family:Arial,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">The committee at Lalbandi Municipality-7 exported agricultural produces worth Rs 1.06 billion between 17 July, 2022 and 12 February, 2023,&nbsp;committee manager Shambhu Ghimire said. </span></span></span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><span style="font-family:Arial,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">The exported agricultural products include tomato, eggplant, black-eyed bean, bottle gourd, bitter gourd, cucumber, cauliflower, cabbage, sponge gourd, green bean, lady finger, radish, green chili, carrot, lamb&#39;s quarter, pointed gourd, jackfruit, pumpkin, coriander, lemon, ginger, pea, onion and capsicum, among others. </span></span></span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><span style="font-family:Arial,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">The agricultural products produced mostly in Lalbandi, Hariwan, Haripur and Ishworpur in Sarlahi district were&nbsp; exported to the places outside the district including Sindhuli, Ramechhap, Kathmandu, Pokhara, Butwal, Bhairahawa, Narayangadh, Nepalgunj, Hetauda, Birgunj, Gaur, Janakpur, Siraha, Biratnagar and Ithari among others, said the committee chair Toran Bahadur Magar. </span></span></span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><span style="font-family:Arial,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">&nbsp;The foundation stone has been laid for a six-room building of&nbsp;the committee, which is under the purview of the federal government. The over Rs 5 million project will be completed within the current fiscal year, said Magar.&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></p>
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			'created' => '2023-02-24',
			'modified' => '2023-02-24',
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			'id' => '17074',
			'article_category_id' => '277',
			'title' => 'Parbat Exports Oranges Worth Around Rs 300 Million',
			'sub_title' => '',
			'summary' => ' Orange production has increased by around 25 percent in the current fiscal as compared to last year in Parbat district. ',
			'content' => '<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>February 20: Orange production has increased by around 25 percent in the current fiscal as compared to last year in Parbat district.&nbsp;<br />
According to the Agriculture Knowledge Centre, Parbat, both--area for orange farming and production have increased in the district this year.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The district produced 5,000 metric tonnes of orange from 830 hectares of land this year. Of it, 4,250 metric tonnes of orange were exported.&nbsp;<br />
Senior Agriculture Development Officer, Manita Thapa, said the district made Rs 297 million income from it. A total of 4,000 metric tonnes of orange was produced from 450 hectares of land in the district last fiscal-year.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Orange produced in the district is sold in Pokhara, Kathmandu, Butwal and Pokhara. Thapa added favourable weather is one of the reasons behind the increase of orange production this year. ---RSS&nbsp;<br />
&nbsp;</p>
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			'image' => '20230220054110_20230220012636_orange.jpg',
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			'id' => '17004',
			'article_category_id' => '277',
			'title' => 'Milk Producing Farmers to Protest For Fair Price',
			'sub_title' => '',
			'summary' => 'Milk producing farmers have warned of staging a protest if the government does not increase the price of milk in Tanahun. In a press meet organized at Damuli of  Tanahun on Sunday,  Tanahun District Milk Producers Cooperatives Union warned of staging the agitation if the government did not raise the prices of the milk.',
			'content' => '<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">February 13: Milk producing farmers have warned of staging a protest if the government does not increase the price of milk in Tanahun.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In a press meet organized at Damuli of&nbsp; Tanahun on Sunday,&nbsp; Tanahun District Milk Producers Cooperatives Union warned of staging the agitation if the government did not raise the prices of the milk.</span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Farmers complained that prices of the milk had not increased though prices of all other daily essentials had skyrocketed in the market.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Union&rsquo;s Chairman Amar Bahadur Kunwar claimed that they would hike the prices themselves if the government did not increase the value of the milk by February 13.</span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Chairman Kunwar said that they would give pressure to the government from 64 districts to up the prices. The selling price of the milk is Rs 64 per liter in the district at the moment. &ldquo;The government has to raise the price by Rs 20 to cover the cost,&rdquo; said Kunwar.</span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Farmers involved in animal husbandry are forced to change their profession for failing to get the right prices for their produce.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Tanahun would produce 14,000 liters of milk in the pre-COVID years on a daily basis. However, the district produces only 4500 liters of the milk at the moment , according to Kunwar.</span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">According to Manager Raju Bhujel of the Tanahun District Milk Producers&rsquo; Cooperatives Union, as many as 1154 farmers are involved in milk producing profession under 15 cooperatives in the district.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The association had sold 1.7 million liters of the milk worth Rs 140 million last year.</span></span></p>
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			'id' => '16845',
			'article_category_id' => '277',
			'title' => 'Tharu Women Enjoying in Collective  Agriculture in Chitwan ',
			'sub_title' => '',
			'summary' => 'Until a few years ago, Tharu women would be busy doing just household chores at Gardi of Madi Municiplaity-1, Chitwan. The women’s daily routine, however, has changed after females from Tharu community started becoming active in agriculture.',
			'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px">January 26: Until a few years ago, Tharu women would be busy doing just household chores at Gardi of Madi Municiplaity-1, Chitwan.&nbsp;The women&rsquo;s daily routine, however, has changed after females from Tharu community started becoming active in agriculture.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">As many as 55 Tharu women are collectively involved in commercial agriculture and they are making good income from their work.&nbsp;Women have kept local chickens, ducks, and fish. They have also grown bananas in the group.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">For commercial agriculture, women have established Tharu Women Farmers&rsquo; Group. &ldquo;We are buying the seeds and fertiliser and selling the produce through the group,&rdquo; said group&rsquo;s chairperson Hiramani Guraule.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Initially, the group had 98 members. Some have left the group, while others have switched their business. &ldquo;The group has 55 members and all of us are very active,&rdquo; added Hiramani.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">The group&rsquo;s firm has 500 ducklings. The group is planning to add 500 extra ducklings after the winter season is over.&nbsp;<br />
The Tharu women have also started mushroom farming.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">According to Hiramani, they had faced difficulty in the initial&nbsp;days. But, keeping ducks and hens and growing bananas have become easy after receiving training from technicians.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Customers visit the farms to purchase ducks, chickens and fish. &ldquo;We are failing to meet ducks&rsquo; demand as our products are organic&rdquo;, Hiramani shared.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">The group has invested more than Rs 8 lakhs to construct physical structures for keeping fish, ducks and local chickens.&nbsp;Hiramani says that working in the group has made their work easy and they are making a good income even with small investment.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Earlier, Tharu women used to be doing&nbsp;household chores and spend time collecting firewood from the forest. But, their lives have changed now, says Guraule. Hiramani says that they have set a plan to expand their business and make it more commercial in the days to come.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><br />
&nbsp;</p>
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			'title' => 'Crops Wilt as Winter Rain Eludes Myagdi Farmers',
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			'summary' => 'Prolonged drought has caused the winter crops to wilt leaving the farmers worried in Myagdi. ',
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<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">January 24: Prolonged drought has caused the winter crops to wilt leaving the farmers worried in Myagdi.&nbsp; </span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Winter crops such as wheat and barley have started to wilt due to lack of rain for a long time in mountainous district.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Myagdi has witnessed drop in the production of summer crops of paddy and millet this year. </span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Farmers look worried as wilting of the winter crops caused by prolonged drought is sure to cause the production of winter crops to shrink in the district. </span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The production of wheat, barley, beans, winter potatoes and vegetables will see a sharp decline this year, said senior farmer Chandra Bahadur Karki in Myagdi. </span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Saying that production of winter crops and vegetables will shrink, many farmers appear worried as major source of their livelihood is agriculture. </span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Wheat is grown in around 9,000 hectares of the land in the district. However, only 52 per cent of the land has access to irrigation facility in the district. </span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Some farmers have failed to cultivate wheat for lack of irrigation, said local agriculture technicians.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Winter crops have begun to dry up in the land having no access to the irrigation facility, said Mangala Rural Municipality Agriculture Technician Jagat Baniya. </span></span></p>

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			'title' => 'Paddy Production Tumbles in Gandaki Province ',
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			'summary' => 'Gandaki Province has witnessed fall in paddy production this fiscal year. Paddy production has slumped by 3.74 per cent compared to the last year.',
			'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:20px">January 15: Gandaki Province has witnessed fall in paddy production this fiscal year. Paddy production has slumped by 3.74 per cent compared to the last year.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">According to data at the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development, the province harvested&nbsp; 3,91,121 metric tons of paddy this year compared to&nbsp;4,06,336 metric tons of paddy last fiscal year. In the province, paddy cultivation area has also shrunk.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">Paddy was cultivated in 1,12,227 hectares of field last year compared to 1,06,380 hectares of land this fiscal year. Compared to other provinces, both paddy production and paddy cultivation area have decreased in Gandaki Province. </span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">&ldquo;Shrinking of paddy plantation field due to rise of houses and housing plots has led to drop in paddy produce,&rdquo; said Basudev Regmi, Chief of Agriculture Development Directorate of the province.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">&ldquo;Urbanization and commercialization have increased in the arable land and land going barren have also soared, causing the paddy produce to fall,&rdquo; added Regmi.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">Regmi warned that rising tendency to construct houses in the arable land would make country more dependent on food in the days to come.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">Adverse weather, shortage of chemical fertilizer, and substandard seeds have also caused the paddy produce to shrink, Regmi described.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">Farmers had experienced fertilizer crunch at the time of paddy cultivation. Similarly, heavy rains had damaged the paddy at the time to bear the rice.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">Farmer Baikuntha Sapkota of Baglung Municiplaity-3 says that he had harvested just 10 muri of paddy this year compared to 19 muri(traditional way of measurement) last fiscal.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">Sapkota complained pests control,&nbsp; shortage of improved seeds and fertilizer management have always remained&nbsp;challenges for farmers.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">Paddy productivity, however, has increased in all&nbsp;provinces this year. Productivity has gone up by 1.55 per cent in per hectare of the paddy field this year. Use of improved seeds, and improvement of cultivation have improved productivity, according to Agriculture Knowledge Center Baglung Chief Bhanubhakta Bhattarai.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">Bhattarai said paddy produce declined five per cent in Baglung&nbsp;this fiscal year. Unseasonal rainfall had damaged the paddy production in the district.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">Baglung&rsquo;s Galkot and Balewa, Gorkha&rsquo;s Palungtar, Kaski&rsquo;s Lekhnath, Syangja&rsquo;s aandhikhola Kinar, Waling, Tanahun&rsquo;s Bhimad, Nawalpur&rsquo;s Triveni and Madhyabindu and Parbat&rsquo;s Faleshwal are pocket areas for paddy production in Gandaki Province.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">Farmers have been planting various types of paddy including Ram, Sunaulosugandh, Loktantnatra, Khumal, improved Jethobudho in the province.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">After Gandaki, Bagmati Province witnessed fall of paddy produce by 1.45 per cent this fiscal. Bagamti province had produced 5,07,789 metric tons of paddy last year &nbsp;compared to 5,00446 metric tons of the paddy this year.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">Paddy production, nevertheless, increased &nbsp;in remaining five provinces.&nbsp;<br />
Paddy production jumped by the highest rate of 33.33 per cent in Sudurpaschim Province. The province produced 5,89,221 metric tons of paddy this fiscal year compared to 4,41,913 metric tons of the paddy last year.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">Country recorded production of 54,86,472 metric tons of paddy this year compared to 51,30,625 metric tons of rice last fiscal.&nbsp;</span></p>
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			'title' => 'Milk production Declines by 6 per cent in Madhes Province ',
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			'summary' => 'Milk production has shrunk in Madhes province. ',
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<span style="font-size:18px">January 4: Milk production has shrunk in Madhes province.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">A survey on Madhes Province&rsquo;s Provincial Economic Activities by Nepal Rastra Bank shows that milk production has fallen by 6.03 per cent.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Madhes province produced 60,05,95,000 liters of milk in the last fiscal year of 2078/79. However, the milk production was 63,91,06,000 liters in the previous fiscal. &nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">During the review period, Siraha has contributed to the highest quantity of milk production.</span><br />
&nbsp;</p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">&nbsp;In the last fiscal year, Siraha produced 12, 61,41,000 liters of milk out of the total mil production in the province. The district recorded milk production of 12,24,70,000 liters in the fiscal year of 2077/78.&nbsp;</span><br />
&nbsp;</p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">In the last fiscal year, Rautahat produced the least quantity of milk in the province. The district produced just 2,09,10,000 liters of milk against 7,32,15000 liters of milk generated in the previous fiscal year. The district saw 71 per cent decline in the milk production.&nbsp;</span></p>

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			'title' => 'Farmers Into Collective Potato Farming ',
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			'summary' => 'Farmers have kick-started collective potato farming at Chapakot Municipality, syangja.  Potato planted by farmers through the different groups in the plains of Chapakot is ready to be harvested.',
			'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px">March 15: Farmers have kick-started collective potato farming at Chapakot Municipality, Syangja.&nbsp;<br />
Potato planted by farmers through the different groups in the plains of Chapakot is ready to be harvested.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Local farmers have implemented collective potato farming in wards no 8,9, 10 of Chapakot Municipality, Syangja.<br />
Coordinator Ramu Bashyal of Belchaur Seetaltar Farmers Group said that they had been attracted towards the collective farming as plantation of the potato in group would make the potato cultivation easy and cost-effective rather than individual farming.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">&nbsp;&ldquo;For want of people to work in the farm, cultivation would be tough. But, working in the group has made it easy. Collective farming has enabled to earn skills and technology for the cultivation,&rdquo; Bashyal stated. According to him, the 450 kilograms of potatoes was planted in four ropani land for the first time.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">As many as 22 individuals are directly involved in the potato farming. The group could not produce the potato as expected due to lack of irrigation facility this time. &ldquo;We have produced more than 1100 kilograms of potato. We shall sell the produce through the group,&rdquo; Bashyal added.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Belchaur Seetaltar Mothers Group Chair Ishwori Bashyal says that planting potato collectively is far easier than doing it individually. &ldquo;We get a chance to learn and apply new skill and technology while cultivating the potato through the group,&rdquo; Ishwori Bashyal said.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">According to Surya Majhi of Chapakot-10, potato has been cultivated in 11 different toles by forming groups consisting of 35/40 individuals. Mothers and sisters have formed 11 different groups and planted potato in ward no 10 alone.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">&ldquo;We have amalgamated old and new groups and cultivated the potatoes targeting to make the ward 10 pocket area for potato,&rdquo; Majhi said. Potato&nbsp;has been planted in 150 ropani of the land in Chapakot-10.&nbsp;The concept of collective potato farming is also being executed at ward-8 of Chapakot, ward chair Toplal Neupane said.&nbsp;</span><br />
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			'title' => 'Agro Production Surges In Sudurpaschim Province',
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			'summary' => 'Sudurpaschim Province has witnessed rise in production and productivity of agriculture sector in the last few years. Agriculture sector saw its production increased after farmers started commercial farming.',
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<p><span style="font-size:18px">&nbsp;March 13: Sudurpaschim Province has witnessed rise in production and productivity of agriculture sector in the last few years. Agriculture sector saw its production increased after farmers started commercial farming.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Director Yagyaraj Joshi at the Agriculture Directorate Dipayal Office said that agricultural production had surged by two percent. &ldquo;Agricultural production has risen by 2 percent while fruit production has also gone up remarkably,&rdquo; said Joshi.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">According to the data at Ministry of Land Management, Agriculture, and Cooperative, major food crops were cultivated in 3,16,789 hectares of the land in fiscal year 2074/75 BS compared to 3,63,793 hectares of the land in the fiscal year of 2078/79.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Productivity of the food crops has increased from 2.7 metric tons per hectare to 3.7 metric tons per hectare. Production of paddy and wheat has surged by 3.5 percent.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Under seed increase programme, seeds of paddy, wheat, maize, potato, vegetables, and mustard oil are being produced in the province. Seed increase programme is being run to increase the seeds of vegetables and food items through Farmers&rsquo; Group and Farmers&rsquo; Cooperative to make the province self-dependent by&nbsp;replacing&nbsp;the import.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Eighteen seed processing and companies have been set up in Kailali, Dadeldhura, Baitadi and Kanchanpur districts, helping the marketing of seeds.&nbsp;&nbsp;Produced seeds are being exported to various districts.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">More than 4,491 families have been provided with power tillers, mini-tillers, rotavators, among others, on 50 percent grants. Farmers&rsquo; group and Farmer Cooperative have rented 74 bigaha land of Rastriya Aabash Company Limited and have been producing seeds of paddy, wheat, and mustard oil.&nbsp;</span></p>
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			'title' => 'Tanahun Farmers Get Improved Maize Seeds ',
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			'summary' => 'With an aim to ensure more productions, the Vyas Municipality in Tanahun district has provided as many as six metric tonnes of improved corn seeds to the farmers in grant.',
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<p><span style="font-size:18px">March 10: With an aim to ensure more productions, the Vyas Municipality in Tanahun district has provided as many as six metric tonnes of improved corn seeds to the farmers in grant.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">The farmers were provided the maize seeds with 50 per cent in grant. Section Officer of Agriculture Section of the municipality Pratima Bagale said farmers from all 14 wards in the municipality were given improved maize seeds of Arun-2, Rampur Composite, Manakamana-3 and other improved seeds.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">&quot;So far, we have distributed six metric tonnes of corn seeds. The distribution is ongoing,&quot; Bagale said. Bagale said that the move is aimed at making the farmers self-reliant and attract people them towards commercial farming.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Prior to this, the municipality had distributed 22 metric tonnes of potato seeds. The municipality is also planning to distribute the beehives to some 100 beekeepers. ---RSS</span><br />
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			'title' => 'Honey Processing Industry Come into Operation ',
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			'summary' => ' A honey Processing Industry has come into operation at Shivsatakshi Municipality, Jhapa. Female bee keepers have set up the honey processing plant for the first time in the district.',
			'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px">March 7: A honey Processing Industry has come into operation at Shivsatakshi Municipality, Jhapa. Female bee keepers&nbsp;have set up the honey processing plant for the first time in the district.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Satashi Women Bee Keeping Association, Sahara Nepal and Hokse Agriculture Cooperative have jointly established Sahara Satakshi Women Bee Honey Industry at the cost of Rs 12.5 million, according to industry&rsquo;s Coordinator Devi Kumari Oli Dahal.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Coordinator&nbsp;Dahal informed that the plant was processing more than 10,000 metric tons of honey in a year. A farming is&nbsp;being done for the commercial production of the honey in Satakshi Municipality.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Since honey is being processed with modern machine, we don&rsquo;t have the problem for its marketing, said farmer Dhanmaya Pathak.&nbsp; Seven females are employed at the plant in the first phase. </span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Locals of Shivsatakshi-11 have kept beehives ranging from 10 to 250 on average as ward No 11 has been declared bee keeping block area.&nbsp; More than 300 women have been doing&nbsp; bee keeping&nbsp;commercially and have been producing more than 60 tons of honey at Shivsatakshi-11 annually.&nbsp;</span></p>
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			'title' => 'Commercial Farming  Of Dragon Fruit Starts In Parbat ',
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			'summary' => 'Commercial farming of dragon fruit has started for the first time in Parbat. Farmer Dilli Prasad Lamichhane of Parbat’s Kusma Municipality-9 has begun the commercial farming of the dragon fruit. ',
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<p><span style="font-size:18px">March 6: Commercial farming of dragon fruit has started for the first time in Parbat. Farmer Dilli Prasad Lamichhane of Parbat&rsquo;s Kusma Municipality-9 has begun the commercial farming of the dragon fruit.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Farmer Lamichhane has planted 1200 saplings of dragon fruit. Dragon fruit is strange to many people in the district.&nbsp; &ldquo;We have 1300 ropani of the land. We are planning to bring 800 more saplings of the dragon fruit by adding 200 pillars. We shall cultivate grass and banana in the rets of the land,&rdquo; said Lamichhane.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Lamichhane is an&nbsp;office assistant of Katuwachupari Health Post. Along with dragon fruit, he has also been involved in animal husbandry. He sells milk at the headquarters in the morning and keeps himself busy in tending dragon fruit in the day time.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">&ldquo;Since income from job is not enough to improve financial condition, I have started dragon fruit cultivation,&rdquo; he added.<br />
Dragon fruit can be cultivated at an altitude of 1500 meters that receives adequate sun.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Two years after their plantation, dragon plants start bearing fruit. Its fruit weighs from 150 grams to 1 kilogram. Of late, the dragon fruit is being planted in flower pot, rooftop and house yard.&nbsp;</span><br />
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			'id' => '17175',
			'article_category_id' => '277',
			'title' => 'Sugar Mill Faces Sugarcane Scarcity ',
			'sub_title' => '',
			'summary' => 'Baba Baijanath Sugar Mill has not been able to crush sugarcanes in accordance  with its capacity in Rautahat. ',
			'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px">March 5: Baba Baijanath Sugar Mill has not been able to crush sugarcanes in accordance &nbsp;with its capacity in Rautahat.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Following the decline of sugarcane production in the district, the mill has been experiencing dearth of sugarcanes for the last few years. The mill has capacity to crush 20,000 quintals of sugarcane in a day. The mill, however, is crushing the less than 7,000 quintals of the sugarcane on a daily basis.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Sugar Mill Proprietor Baiju Babara complained that sugarcane shortage had put the mill on the verge of closure.&nbsp;<br />
The mill had crushed just 0.6 million quintals of sugarcane last year. &ldquo;Operating the mill below its capacity has incurred heavy loss for the mill,&rdquo; said Babara.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Farmers have reduced the cultivation of the sugarcane due to some sugar mills&rsquo; failure to pay the farmers on regular basis. Mill proprietor Babara says that his mill has no issue regarding the payment to the sugarcane farmers. &ldquo;We have been paying the sugarcane farmers at their doorstep and encouraging them. Despite this, the production has declined,&rdquo; Babara said.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Farmers from Bara and Sarlahi used to sell sugarcane to the mill. The government ban to sell sugarcane from one district to another has aggravated the scarcity of the sugarcane, according to Barabara.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Baijanath Sugar Mill has been helping farmers with seed, fertilizer and payment at their place. Besides, the mill&nbsp;has also provided a cane harvester to the farmers.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Rautahat used to produce more than 2 million quintals of sugarcane in the past. The sugarcane production stands at between 1 to 1.2 million quintals a year at the moment, according to Sugarcane Producers&rsquo; Association Rautahat said.&nbsp; The mill has to be shut down earlier though the mill would operate till April in normal condition, said Baijanath.&nbsp;</span></p>

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			'title' => 'Twenty-eight Percent Arable Land Barren in Karnali Province ',
			'sub_title' => '',
			'summary' => 'Twenty eight per cent of arable land has remained uncultivated in Karnali Province.   Despite the province government’s policy to utilize barren land, a large swathe of land is lying barren and uncultivated owing to the lax implementation of the policy.',
			'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px">March 3: Twenty eight per cent of arable land has remained uncultivated in Karnali Province.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Despite the province government&rsquo;s policy to utilize barren land, a large swathe of land is lying barren and uncultivated owing to the lax implementation of the policy.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">&nbsp;Karnali Province faces a shortage of food every year. According to the Ministry of Land Management, Agriculture, and Cooperative, out of the total arable land, only 72 per cent has been utilized for farming.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Occupying 22 per cent area of the total geography of the country, seventy-four percent people rely on agriculture in Karnali Province. Home to 99,339 hectares of the arable land, the province produces 3,39,909 metric tons of the food in a year, while the province requires 3,58316 metric tons of the food &nbsp;yearly.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">The Ministry&rsquo;s Spokesperson Dhan Bahadur Kathayat said that the ministry had emphasized for the cultivation of fruits and vegetables in the uncultivated land.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">&ldquo;We have devised various plans to utilize unused and barren land. We are encouraging farmers for apple farming in mountainous districts and orange, kiwi and other fruits in hilly districts,&rdquo; Kathayat said.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">The province government says that it has been utilizing barren land to reduce poverty and end food shortage&nbsp;in the province.&nbsp;</span><br />
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			'article_date' => '2023-03-02 16:21:05',
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			'id' => '17120',
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			'title' => 'Collective Potato Farming in Barren Land ',
			'sub_title' => '',
			'summary' => 'Local farmers have started commercial potato farming at the land uncultivated for the last 20 years at Mareni of Dhawalagiri Rural Municiplaity-2, Myagdi. ',
			'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px">February 26: &nbsp;Local farmers&nbsp;have started commercial potato farming at the land uncultivated for the last 20 years at Mareni of Dhawalagiri Rural Municiplaity-2, Myagdi.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Lagansil Multipurpose Framers&rsquo; Group have cleared bushes&nbsp;at 44 ropani land and started&nbsp;collective potato farming.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">&ldquo;We have cleared the bushes, tilled the land and planted potatoes,&rdquo; said the group&rsquo;s chair Gausara BK. According to BK, eighteen persons have started commercial potato farming. The group is preparing to plant potato in 100 ropani land by expanding the farming to Paireni, and Lamsung as well.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">The group has&nbsp;planted 20 muri potato seeds in the rented land of local people.&nbsp;Rural municipality&rsquo;s agriculture branch&rsquo;s technical assistant Amrit Thapa said that farmers&rsquo; group had planted local species of potatoes in 44 ropani of the land under rural municipality&rsquo;s potato pocket programme.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">&ldquo;Potato farming has changed shape of barren land. Local farmers are excited to give continuity to the potato farming in the next year as well. Locals will make income if the weather remains favourable,&rdquo; Thapa said.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">The rural municipality has allocated Rs 1.2 million for potato pocket programme in the current fiscal year.&nbsp;Lagnasil Multipurpose Farmers&rsquo; Group and Agriculture Herbs and Livestock Farmers&rsquo; Group have been provided with Rs 6 lakhs each for potato cultivation, said a source at the rural municipality.</span></p>
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			'article_date' => '2023-02-26 06:17:19',
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			'id' => '17108',
			'article_category_id' => '277',
			'title' => 'Lalbandi Exports Agricultural Produce Worth Over Rs 1 Billion in Seven Months',
			'sub_title' => '',
			'summary' => 'Lalbandi agriculture wholesale bazaar management committee has exported agricultural products worth over Rs 1 billion in seven months of the current fiscal year, 2022/23.',
			'content' => '<h4>&nbsp;</h4>

<div>
<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><span style="font-family:Arial,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">February 24: Lalbandi&nbsp;agriculture wholesale bazaar management committee&nbsp;exported agricultural products worth over Rs 1 billion in seven months of the current fiscal year, 2022/23. </span></span></span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><span style="font-family:Arial,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">The committee at Lalbandi Municipality-7 exported agricultural produces worth Rs 1.06 billion between 17 July, 2022 and 12 February, 2023,&nbsp;committee manager Shambhu Ghimire said. </span></span></span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><span style="font-family:Arial,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">The exported agricultural products include tomato, eggplant, black-eyed bean, bottle gourd, bitter gourd, cucumber, cauliflower, cabbage, sponge gourd, green bean, lady finger, radish, green chili, carrot, lamb&#39;s quarter, pointed gourd, jackfruit, pumpkin, coriander, lemon, ginger, pea, onion and capsicum, among others. </span></span></span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><span style="font-family:Arial,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">The agricultural products produced mostly in Lalbandi, Hariwan, Haripur and Ishworpur in Sarlahi district were&nbsp; exported to the places outside the district including Sindhuli, Ramechhap, Kathmandu, Pokhara, Butwal, Bhairahawa, Narayangadh, Nepalgunj, Hetauda, Birgunj, Gaur, Janakpur, Siraha, Biratnagar and Ithari among others, said the committee chair Toran Bahadur Magar. </span></span></span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><span style="font-family:Arial,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">&nbsp;The foundation stone has been laid for a six-room building of&nbsp;the committee, which is under the purview of the federal government. The over Rs 5 million project will be completed within the current fiscal year, said Magar.&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></p>
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			'id' => '17074',
			'article_category_id' => '277',
			'title' => 'Parbat Exports Oranges Worth Around Rs 300 Million',
			'sub_title' => '',
			'summary' => ' Orange production has increased by around 25 percent in the current fiscal as compared to last year in Parbat district. ',
			'content' => '<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>February 20: Orange production has increased by around 25 percent in the current fiscal as compared to last year in Parbat district.&nbsp;<br />
According to the Agriculture Knowledge Centre, Parbat, both--area for orange farming and production have increased in the district this year.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The district produced 5,000 metric tonnes of orange from 830 hectares of land this year. Of it, 4,250 metric tonnes of orange were exported.&nbsp;<br />
Senior Agriculture Development Officer, Manita Thapa, said the district made Rs 297 million income from it. A total of 4,000 metric tonnes of orange was produced from 450 hectares of land in the district last fiscal-year.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Orange produced in the district is sold in Pokhara, Kathmandu, Butwal and Pokhara. Thapa added favourable weather is one of the reasons behind the increase of orange production this year. ---RSS&nbsp;<br />
&nbsp;</p>
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			'image' => '20230220054110_20230220012636_orange.jpg',
			'article_date' => '2023-02-20 17:39:34',
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			'id' => '17004',
			'article_category_id' => '277',
			'title' => 'Milk Producing Farmers to Protest For Fair Price',
			'sub_title' => '',
			'summary' => 'Milk producing farmers have warned of staging a protest if the government does not increase the price of milk in Tanahun. In a press meet organized at Damuli of  Tanahun on Sunday,  Tanahun District Milk Producers Cooperatives Union warned of staging the agitation if the government did not raise the prices of the milk.',
			'content' => '<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">February 13: Milk producing farmers have warned of staging a protest if the government does not increase the price of milk in Tanahun.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In a press meet organized at Damuli of&nbsp; Tanahun on Sunday,&nbsp; Tanahun District Milk Producers Cooperatives Union warned of staging the agitation if the government did not raise the prices of the milk.</span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Farmers complained that prices of the milk had not increased though prices of all other daily essentials had skyrocketed in the market.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Union&rsquo;s Chairman Amar Bahadur Kunwar claimed that they would hike the prices themselves if the government did not increase the value of the milk by February 13.</span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Chairman Kunwar said that they would give pressure to the government from 64 districts to up the prices. The selling price of the milk is Rs 64 per liter in the district at the moment. &ldquo;The government has to raise the price by Rs 20 to cover the cost,&rdquo; said Kunwar.</span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Farmers involved in animal husbandry are forced to change their profession for failing to get the right prices for their produce.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Tanahun would produce 14,000 liters of milk in the pre-COVID years on a daily basis. However, the district produces only 4500 liters of the milk at the moment , according to Kunwar.</span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">According to Manager Raju Bhujel of the Tanahun District Milk Producers&rsquo; Cooperatives Union, as many as 1154 farmers are involved in milk producing profession under 15 cooperatives in the district.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The association had sold 1.7 million liters of the milk worth Rs 140 million last year.</span></span></p>
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		'Article' => array(
			'id' => '16845',
			'article_category_id' => '277',
			'title' => 'Tharu Women Enjoying in Collective  Agriculture in Chitwan ',
			'sub_title' => '',
			'summary' => 'Until a few years ago, Tharu women would be busy doing just household chores at Gardi of Madi Municiplaity-1, Chitwan. The women’s daily routine, however, has changed after females from Tharu community started becoming active in agriculture.',
			'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:18px">January 26: Until a few years ago, Tharu women would be busy doing just household chores at Gardi of Madi Municiplaity-1, Chitwan.&nbsp;The women&rsquo;s daily routine, however, has changed after females from Tharu community started becoming active in agriculture.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">As many as 55 Tharu women are collectively involved in commercial agriculture and they are making good income from their work.&nbsp;Women have kept local chickens, ducks, and fish. They have also grown bananas in the group.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">For commercial agriculture, women have established Tharu Women Farmers&rsquo; Group. &ldquo;We are buying the seeds and fertiliser and selling the produce through the group,&rdquo; said group&rsquo;s chairperson Hiramani Guraule.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Initially, the group had 98 members. Some have left the group, while others have switched their business. &ldquo;The group has 55 members and all of us are very active,&rdquo; added Hiramani.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">The group&rsquo;s firm has 500 ducklings. The group is planning to add 500 extra ducklings after the winter season is over.&nbsp;<br />
The Tharu women have also started mushroom farming.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">According to Hiramani, they had faced difficulty in the initial&nbsp;days. But, keeping ducks and hens and growing bananas have become easy after receiving training from technicians.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Customers visit the farms to purchase ducks, chickens and fish. &ldquo;We are failing to meet ducks&rsquo; demand as our products are organic&rdquo;, Hiramani shared.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">The group has invested more than Rs 8 lakhs to construct physical structures for keeping fish, ducks and local chickens.&nbsp;Hiramani says that working in the group has made their work easy and they are making a good income even with small investment.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Earlier, Tharu women used to be doing&nbsp;household chores and spend time collecting firewood from the forest. But, their lives have changed now, says Guraule. Hiramani says that they have set a plan to expand their business and make it more commercial in the days to come.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><br />
&nbsp;</p>
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			'id' => '16827',
			'article_category_id' => '277',
			'title' => 'Crops Wilt as Winter Rain Eludes Myagdi Farmers',
			'sub_title' => '',
			'summary' => 'Prolonged drought has caused the winter crops to wilt leaving the farmers worried in Myagdi. ',
			'content' => '<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">January 24: Prolonged drought has caused the winter crops to wilt leaving the farmers worried in Myagdi.&nbsp; </span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Winter crops such as wheat and barley have started to wilt due to lack of rain for a long time in mountainous district.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Myagdi has witnessed drop in the production of summer crops of paddy and millet this year. </span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Farmers look worried as wilting of the winter crops caused by prolonged drought is sure to cause the production of winter crops to shrink in the district. </span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The production of wheat, barley, beans, winter potatoes and vegetables will see a sharp decline this year, said senior farmer Chandra Bahadur Karki in Myagdi. </span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Saying that production of winter crops and vegetables will shrink, many farmers appear worried as major source of their livelihood is agriculture. </span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Wheat is grown in around 9,000 hectares of the land in the district. However, only 52 per cent of the land has access to irrigation facility in the district. </span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Some farmers have failed to cultivate wheat for lack of irrigation, said local agriculture technicians.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Winter crops have begun to dry up in the land having no access to the irrigation facility, said Mangala Rural Municipality Agriculture Technician Jagat Baniya. </span></span></p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

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			'id' => '16740',
			'article_category_id' => '277',
			'title' => 'Paddy Production Tumbles in Gandaki Province ',
			'sub_title' => '',
			'summary' => 'Gandaki Province has witnessed fall in paddy production this fiscal year. Paddy production has slumped by 3.74 per cent compared to the last year.',
			'content' => '<p><span style="font-size:20px">January 15: Gandaki Province has witnessed fall in paddy production this fiscal year. Paddy production has slumped by 3.74 per cent compared to the last year.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">According to data at the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development, the province harvested&nbsp; 3,91,121 metric tons of paddy this year compared to&nbsp;4,06,336 metric tons of paddy last fiscal year. In the province, paddy cultivation area has also shrunk.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">Paddy was cultivated in 1,12,227 hectares of field last year compared to 1,06,380 hectares of land this fiscal year. Compared to other provinces, both paddy production and paddy cultivation area have decreased in Gandaki Province. </span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">&ldquo;Shrinking of paddy plantation field due to rise of houses and housing plots has led to drop in paddy produce,&rdquo; said Basudev Regmi, Chief of Agriculture Development Directorate of the province.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">&ldquo;Urbanization and commercialization have increased in the arable land and land going barren have also soared, causing the paddy produce to fall,&rdquo; added Regmi.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">Regmi warned that rising tendency to construct houses in the arable land would make country more dependent on food in the days to come.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">Adverse weather, shortage of chemical fertilizer, and substandard seeds have also caused the paddy produce to shrink, Regmi described.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">Farmers had experienced fertilizer crunch at the time of paddy cultivation. Similarly, heavy rains had damaged the paddy at the time to bear the rice.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">Farmer Baikuntha Sapkota of Baglung Municiplaity-3 says that he had harvested just 10 muri of paddy this year compared to 19 muri(traditional way of measurement) last fiscal.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">Sapkota complained pests control,&nbsp; shortage of improved seeds and fertilizer management have always remained&nbsp;challenges for farmers.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">Paddy productivity, however, has increased in all&nbsp;provinces this year. Productivity has gone up by 1.55 per cent in per hectare of the paddy field this year. Use of improved seeds, and improvement of cultivation have improved productivity, according to Agriculture Knowledge Center Baglung Chief Bhanubhakta Bhattarai.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">Bhattarai said paddy produce declined five per cent in Baglung&nbsp;this fiscal year. Unseasonal rainfall had damaged the paddy production in the district.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">Baglung&rsquo;s Galkot and Balewa, Gorkha&rsquo;s Palungtar, Kaski&rsquo;s Lekhnath, Syangja&rsquo;s aandhikhola Kinar, Waling, Tanahun&rsquo;s Bhimad, Nawalpur&rsquo;s Triveni and Madhyabindu and Parbat&rsquo;s Faleshwal are pocket areas for paddy production in Gandaki Province.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">Farmers have been planting various types of paddy including Ram, Sunaulosugandh, Loktantnatra, Khumal, improved Jethobudho in the province.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">After Gandaki, Bagmati Province witnessed fall of paddy produce by 1.45 per cent this fiscal. Bagamti province had produced 5,07,789 metric tons of paddy last year &nbsp;compared to 5,00446 metric tons of the paddy this year.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">Paddy production, nevertheless, increased &nbsp;in remaining five provinces.&nbsp;<br />
Paddy production jumped by the highest rate of 33.33 per cent in Sudurpaschim Province. The province produced 5,89,221 metric tons of paddy this fiscal year compared to 4,41,913 metric tons of the paddy last year.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:20px">Country recorded production of 54,86,472 metric tons of paddy this year compared to 51,30,625 metric tons of rice last fiscal.&nbsp;</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:18px">January 4: Milk production has shrunk in Madhes province.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">A survey on Madhes Province&rsquo;s Provincial Economic Activities by Nepal Rastra Bank shows that milk production has fallen by 6.03 per cent.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Madhes province produced 60,05,95,000 liters of milk in the last fiscal year of 2078/79. However, the milk production was 63,91,06,000 liters in the previous fiscal. &nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px">During the review period, Siraha has contributed to the highest quantity of milk production.</span><br />
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<p><span style="font-size:18px">&nbsp;In the last fiscal year, Siraha produced 12, 61,41,000 liters of milk out of the total mil production in the province. The district recorded milk production of 12,24,70,000 liters in the fiscal year of 2077/78.&nbsp;</span><br />
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<p><span style="font-size:18px">In the last fiscal year, Rautahat produced the least quantity of milk in the province. The district produced just 2,09,10,000 liters of milk against 7,32,15000 liters of milk generated in the previous fiscal year. The district saw 71 per cent decline in the milk production.&nbsp;</span></p>

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