Dhorpatan. Farmers from Durleni, Baglung Municipality-9 have started walnut farming by uprooting bushes. They have grown 2,200 walnut seedlings in 140 ropani.
Dev Bahadur Khadka, the group’s chairman, informed that walnut farming has been started through the Durleni Community Agriculture and Herbs Group. Currently, 17 youth are involved in walnut farming.
The Prime Minister’s Agriculture Modernization Project, Baglung, has also supported walnut farming. A total of 1.4 million rupees has been invested in walnut cultivation, including 1 million rupees from the farmers and 2.4 million rupees from the Prime Minister’s Agriculture Modernization Project.
Narayan Poudel, head of the Prime Minister’s Agriculture Modernization Project, said that the Urleni area is suitable for walnut cultivation and that subsidies have been provided as requested by the farmers.
‘The project had recommended Kashmiri local and Thinsel varieties of seedlings, they have brought seedlings from Baitadi and planted them, and the seedlings have taken root,’ he said.
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