Chitwan. Keshav Muktan, 29, of Rapti Municipality in East Chitwan is now immersed in the beekeeping business. He has been involved in the beekeeping business for the past 6 years. Moktan of Rapti-5 returned to Nepal in 2015 after going abroad and his work abroad did not go as well as he had hoped. He came to Nepal and started the beekeeping business.
He started his beekeeping business with about 25 hives and has now grown to 135 hives. He started this business with the idea that if he could do better in Nepal than abroad, he could do better in Nepal. He said, ‘Even though I sometimes feel like going abroad to earn money, I started this business because I thought I could earn money in Nepal.’
He has strengthened the business that his family has been doing normally and has started beekeeping professionally. He started his beekeeping business by registering the RKM Livestock and Bird Farming Firm. He said, ‘I have taken up agriculture to show the younger generation that something can be done in Nepal.’
Although there is a problem of grazing while beekeeping, he said that he has been facing it and moving forward. There is an obligation to pay a fee to the community forest when taking animals to pasture. He says that although bees do not harm anyone, it would be easier for beekeepers if the community forest and community could eliminate the practice of charging fees.
Muktan, who started beekeeping after seeing his father-in-law do it, is now producing 1,950 kg of honey annually. He plans to increase the number of hives to 150.
Muktan, who was initially disappointed when his business did not perform as expected, was provided with 20 hives by the Prime Minister’s Agricultural Modernization Project and 90 hives by the Agricultural Development Office under the Agricultural Entrepreneurship Program, and he has taken his beekeeping business forward more effectively.
Jhalaknath Kandel, head of the District Agricultural Development Office, said that the program includes youths who are planning to go abroad or have returned from abroad as it can replace imports by employing them in agricultural work.
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