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Baglung. Commercial tea farming has been started through cooperatives in Tingring and Bor in Resh, Kathekhola Rural Municipality-7. Tea farming has been started in the forest of Jan Kalyan Basic School through the Chief Minister’s Environment-Friendly Model Agricultural Village Program.
Prem Lamichhane, Chairman of Ward No. 7, informed that tea farming has been started in five places including Tingring through Resh Small Farmers Cooperative Society Limited. Ward President Lamichhane said that the school’s land has been leased for 15 years and tea farming has been started in 140 ropanis by creating five blocks on public land.
“After the tea farming carried out as a trial started yielding good results, we have started making a brand of tea in the form of koseli to the guests who come to observe the tea farming,” said Ward President Lamichhane. He said that since there is a lack of infrastructure including roads and drinking water to move around the tea gardens, initiatives are being taken to build physical infrastructure in collaboration with the local, provincial and federal governments.
Out of more than 110,000 plants in the tea gardens, 60,000 have started producing. According to Lamichhane, although tea drying equipment was purchased in collaboration with the ward office, coordination is being done with the concerned bodies to operate the industry after tea production has started to increase in recent times.
As tea production has increased, there is confusion in the operation of the industry along with marketing, said Ujeli Sharma, president of Resh Sana Kisan Cooperative. He said that due to the lack of equipment for processed tea, the cooperative has not been able to produce as expected. He said that tea is currently being produced traditionally.
The ward has a plan to make the locals prosperous through tea farming. Gandaki Province Health Minister Krishna Prasad Pathak, who visited the tea farming, said that tea farming is a model work to control the increasing migration. “The provincial government will join hands with the work done by the locals to make economic progress by utilizing the barren land.”
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