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Manahari. With the implementation of the program to promote indigenous crops in Bhimphedi Rural Municipality of Makawanpur, farmers have been attracted to millet farming. The municipality has allocated Rs. 3.5 million under the cash grant program for the promotion of indigenous crops in the fiscal year 2081/82.
A maximum incentive of Rs. 27,800 has been distributed to 424 farmers cultivating indigenous crops such as millet and sorghum on more than two ropanis of land, informed Ujjwal Rana Magar, head of the municipality’s agriculture branch.
451 farmers of the municipality had applied for millet farming on 2,510 ropanis of land this year. The municipality has stated that about 255 metric tons of millet will be produced on the land.
It is estimated that millet will be cultivated on an area of 5,130 ropanis across the entire rural municipality and up to 509 metric tons of millet will be produced in it, said Agriculture Branch Chief Rana Magar. Similarly, Bhimphedi Rural Municipality has set the minimum support price of indigenous crop millet at 55 per kg.
Although this program was started in the rural municipality from the fiscal year 2080/81, it was implemented from the fiscal year 2081/82 by making the Agricultural Program Operation Guideline, 2081.
Informing that Rs. 3.5 million has been allocated for the current fiscal year under the cash grant program to encourage indigenous farming, the rural municipality chairman Hidam Lama expressed his belief that this will help in the promotion and commercial production of millet, known as a traditional and indigenous crop, and will boost the morale of local farmers.
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