Over hundred programmes to support vegetable production in Dhankuta

DHANKUTA: The Prime Minister Agriculture Modernisation Project Implementation Unit, Vegetable Zone has prepared to develop more than a hundred programmes based on the yields, spending Rs 22 million and 57 thousand this fiscal year.

It has been planned to encourage the local farmers to improve the non-commercial agriculture system and to promote commercial production, at Sindhuwa in Chhathar Jorpati Rural Municipality-4. According to chief at Vegetable Zone, Dhankuta, Devindra Sahu, 58 per cent of the total budget has been allocated for the grant programmes based on the demands of farmers.

The programmes will be developed prioritising agricultural technical institute, plastic tunnel, small irrigation, storage improvement, vegetable collecting centres among other factors required for modern and commercial vegetable cultivation.

The project prioritising organic vegetable production will bring small irrigation construction programmes for 35 farmers, plastic tunnel repair and maintenance programmes for 28 farmers and storage improvement programmes targeting at least 50 farmers, in the current fiscal year, the Vegetable Zone office informed.

The office chief informed that plans have also been made to develop programmes on management of produces, agricultural tools and instruments, inputs, controlling of diseases in cabbage.

As much as 50,000 metric tonnes of local produce such as radish, mustard green, cauliflower, beans, carrot, chayote, bitter gourd, broccoli, cultivated in 800 hectares of land were exported in the fiscal year 2075/76 BS.