Sarlahi. The Tropical Horticulture Center Nawalpur has awarded a contract for the sale of litchi at the highest price ever. According to the Horticulture Center, the contract for litchi produced this year was awarded at Rs. 2.825 million.
The center had published a notice on Chaitra 27 setting a minimum selling price of Rs. 2.551 million for the sale of litchi in the horticulture. According to the information, among the applications that were registered, Narvada Suppliers located in Hariwan Municipality-7 has won the contract for litchi at that price.
‘This time, we have succeeded in generating revenue by selling horticultural litchi at the highest price ever,’ said Ram Kumar Yadav, head of the center. ‘In recent years, revenue has also increased along with horticultural production.’
He said that revenue has increased as both horticulture and contract processes are managed. 621 litchi plants have been cultivated in the center’s 8.5 hectares of area. He said that the contract price for litchi, which was contracted for Rs. 27 lakh 15 thousand last year, has also increased this year due to increased production. Nine varieties of litchi are being produced in horticulture.
Similarly, the center has published a notice on April 16 for the contract for mangoes produced here. Yadav, the head of the center, informed that the notice was published by fixing the minimum selling price at Rs 7.111 million.
The contract for mangoes will be opened on April 31. There are six thousand trees in the mango cultivation spread over about one hundred bighas. Out of which, more than three thousand five hundred trees bear fruit every year. The mangoes here were contracted for Rs 2.1 million last year.
Yadav, the head of the horticulture center, said that the varieties of mangoes produced at the center include Maldaha, Dashahari, Bombay, Amrapali, Mallika, and Neelam. The contractor group has been transporting fruits such as litchis and mangoes produced here to Kathmandu, Hetauda, and Chitwan, as well as other major cities in the country.
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