The country will be self-reliant
in vegetables, fruits, meat, fish, onion and maize in the next five years. The
government has been operating programmes to make the country self-reliant in
agriculture products, said finance secretary Krishna Hari Baskota in Dhading
today while inaugurating the annual general assembly of Community Small
Farmers’ Agriculture Cooperatives based in Nalang.
The country has a huge potential
for high-value crops, so we have to focus on them, he said, adding that organic
farming can be an additional advantage to commercialise agro products. “We have
to promote ‘One Village, One Product’ policy across the country,” he said.
He informed that the government
will provide easy loans to cooperatives established by youths in villages.
“Cooperatives will be mobilised for agriculture revolution,” he said. Baskota
also informed that the government has added Budhi Gandaki Hydropower Project in
the national priority list. “It will open opportunities in the district,” he said.
He urged farmers to establish
agro-processing industries to develop Dhading district.
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