December 14:  Bamboos worth millions have gone useless due to lack of access road to the market in Udayapur.
 

Bamboo plants are grown at Udayapur’s Iname, Majhkharka, Nametar, Tatne, Banshbote, Thanaguan, Balamta, and Tamchhina. Bamboo producing farmers say that they have failed to sell their plants worth millions, thus turning them into firewood. 

Bare’s Dan Bahadur Tamang laments that bamboo plants worth millions are ready in his filed but has to burn them down due to lack of access road to the market. 

“Farmers in the village connected to the road access sell per plant of bamboo from Rs 150 to Rs 250. “But, lack of access road to our village has hit bamboo sale”, bemoaned Junga Bahadur Tamang of Iname. 

According to Limchungbung Rural Municipality chairman Major Kumar Rai, bamboo farmers are having a hard time selling their product due to lack of well-managed access road in the village. Rural municipality chair Rai, however, optimistically says that road construction has already started off and farmers can sell their product in one two years. 

Local bamboo farmers say that large-sized and tall species of the bamboo are grown in the remote hilly areas. If these plants have access to the market, they can fetch a good price. 
“Bamboos worth millions from lower hilly areas connected to the road network are selling at a good price”, said a local bamboo farmer. 
 

 Bamboo farmers in the remote hilly parts of the district want the concerned authorities to construct access road to the market at the earliest.