RAUTAHAT, JANUARY 7

A cane harvester has been brought into operation to cut and load sugarcanes in Rautahat for the first time in Nepal.

Baba Baijunath Sugar Chemicals Mills located at Rautahat's Katahariya Municipality had brought the cane harvester from India's Pune.

Nepali Congress Province 2 President Krishna Prasad Yadav inaugurated the cane harvester machine in the sugarcane field on the banks of the Bagmati River amid a programme today. President Yadav said the use of harvester machine would rid farmers of dull works of cutting and ferrying sugarcanes to the mills.

Mills Proprietor Baiju Babara said the machine could cut up to 200 quintals of sugarcane and load them in an hour.

A version of this article appears in the print on January 8, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.