BAGLUNG, FEBRUARY 20
Seventy poultry and animal farms in Baglung have been selected for grants given by the government under the campaign to promote small scale trade.
Veterinary Hospital and Livestock Service Expert Centre, Baglung, with assistance from Gandaki province government had launched the campaign promoting small scale firms. The selected firms will get Rs 150,000 grant each. To be eligible for the scheme, each farmer needs to grow 250 local chickens, 500 layer chickens and 1,000 broilers. Similarly, farms growing 15 adult goats, five adult pigs, and 10 pigs for meat will be entitled to the scheme.
Similarly, fifty per cent grant will be provided to 70 firms selected out of the total 269 applications, said Keshab Poudel, animal health officer at the Centre.
The drive has been implemented at Rayadanda in Baglung Municipality, Nisigaun in Nisikhola Rural Municipality and Lekhani in Kathekhola Rural Municipality, a pocket area for livestock.
"We have reached out to farmers at their doorsteps with a regular but different agriculture programme. We have introduced the programme as per the demand of farmers," he said.
A buffalo development programme has also been launched at Pala in Kathekhola Rural Municipality.
Similarly, Rs 10,000 in incentive has been provided to farmers who have grown cow and buffalo calves for a year. These calves must be conceived through artificial insemination and reared for a year.
A version of this article appears in the print on February 21, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.
