Nepal<\/a> under the support of government\u2019s public schemes.<\/p>\nAs the latest reports say, different schemes under the 10-year-long \u2018Prime Minister Agriculture Modernization Project\u2019 are giving positive results for the country\u2019s potato farming.<\/p>\n
As a result, more number of farmers are inclining towards commercial potato farming availing the government schemes and increasing farming mechanization benefits.<\/p>\n
With this, farmers could double their potato production year-on-year while significantly minimizing production costs in farming.<\/p>\n
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Kamal Rural Municipality is one locality that benefited the most out of this scheme and emerged as a \u2018potato pocket\u2019 zone. Potato cultivation in this area has seen a two-fold rise in this region from 35 dedicated farmers last year to 60 farmers this year.<\/p>\n
A special potato management committee has been formed under this project to help farmers plant seeds using potato planters. \u201cThe committee also helps farmers harvest their produce by using a potato harvester without charging them any extra cost for the machine,\u201d says Yam Bahadur Rai, chairman of the committee.<\/p>\n
According to Tanka Kattel, a facilitator of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Agriculture Cooperative, the committee helps farmers to also sell their products upon harvest.<\/p>\n
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We have received 50 percent of subsidy on potato seeds, and the committee has been helping us with potato transplanter and harvester which have significantly reduced our costs of production,\u201d says Durga Prasad Parajuli, a local farmer in Kamal Rural Municipality.<\/p>\n
While it takes a day to plant a potato in a katta<\/em> of Nepali land using traditional methods, it takes only 20 minutes to do the same with the machine.<\/p>\n\u201cThe potato planter saves time and costs significantly. Almost 75 percent of our costs are cut down, and because of this more and more farmers are willing to grow potatoes for a living,\u201d says Govinda Shrestha<\/span>, another local farmer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nThe NPR 130 billion project envisages adoption of modern farm techniques to boost productivity and increase the country\u2019s self-reliance in food.<\/p>\n
Wish the project implemented in 2016 will go a long way ahead to benefiting the Nepali farming community!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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