Arghakhanchi. Farmers in Malarani of the district have started earning a lot of money through agriculture and animal husbandry using modern technology professionally. The farmers here have started commercial agriculture and animal husbandry with the idea that they can earn money by working hard in their own villages and also earn self-employment.
Malarani Rural Municipality has made the farmers who were traditionally engaged in goat husbandry modern and technology-friendly by running the Malarani Agriculture and Animal Entrepreneurship Development Project. Prem Bahadur Gharti Magar, a farmer from Gauradanda, Malarani-6, said that he started goat husbandry using modern technology after returning from employment abroad.
He mentioned that he started goat husbandry by building a modern barn with the belief that something should be done at home and that it is possible to earn a living from agriculture and animal husbandry in the village as well. He said that it has become easier after the rural municipality has provided various types of support in goat farming in partnership with Heifer.
Malarani Rural Municipality and Heifer Project The Malarani Agriculture and Livestock Entrepreneurship Development Project, which is being implemented in all nine wards of Malarani Rural Municipality with the financial and technical assistance of Nepal and the facilitation of the Rural and Community Health Development Center, Nepal, informed the rural municipality chairman Dal Bahadur Bhattarai.
The rural municipality has stated that it aims to increase social capital by organizing 1,500 families, including 1,350 women and 150 youth, into 60 entrepreneurial groups and organizing them into cooperatives.
Through improved goat management and adoption of advanced technology The municipality chairman Bhattarai said that farmers have started benefiting after the work of increasing goat production, productivity and entrepreneurship, promoting improved breed goats and grass farming, and providing technical and capacity building training to farmer families has started.
Formation and mobilization of women’s groups and youth groups, good governance and institutional development and strengthening of cooperatives, collection, marketing and development of systematic collection centers for produced agricultural and animal products, in addition to goat, milk, vegetable and fruit businesses, improvement of cages, sheds and provision of equipment for weighing live livestock is being done through this project, informed Radha Krishna Sharma, Senior Program Officer of Heifer International.
The locals can be made self-employed and economically empowered through agriculture and animal husbandry. Govinda Bhattarai, Chief Administrative Officer of the rural municipality, said that programs have been implemented in all nine wards of the municipality with the recognition in the areas of food and cash crops, vegetable, goat development, cattle promotion, women empowerment and capacity development, agriculture and livestock marketing, operation and management of moisture centers, and institutional development and good governance of cooperatives.
According to him, its main objective is to increase the annual income of the target families and improve their livelihoods by creating employment.
The project has also been working to increase social capital by integrating farmers into self-reliant groups and cooperatives, increase the production and productivity of commercial agriculture and livestock, and develop cooperatives as business centers and enable them for collective marketing. .
Project Coordinator Dinesh Belbase informed that work is also being done to expand market relations in collaboration with the private sector. According to him, the total budget of the project is Rs 33.333 crore. Arjun Khanal, the project’s accounting officer, informed that Malarani Rural Municipality has allocated Rs 23.333 million and the rest of the budget has been allocated by the Heifer Project.
The monitoring team, coordinated by Malarani Rural Municipality Chairman Bhattarai, conducted an on-site monitoring of the status and implementation of the program and goat farming.
Chief Administrative Officer Bhattarai, Planning Officer Netra Prasad Khanal, Senior Program Officer Sharma of Heifer International, Advisor Shambhu Prasad Pokharel, Project Coordinator Belbase, Resource Person Prabha Pokharel, Accounting Officer Khanal and other employees participated in the monitoring.
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