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Jhapa. The Mechi Khola riverbed located in Kachankawal Rural Municipality-5 of Jhapa is being made fertile.
The work of making the land of the riverbed fertile is being done as part of the Bagar Farming Promotion Program to improve the living standards of the poor citizens, informed Nawaraj Bhattarai, Vice Chairman of Kachankawal Rural Municipality.
He said that the Bagar Farming Program is being conducted on 25 bighas of the riverbed land with the cost sharing of UNDP and Kachankawal Rural Municipality. He said that the program is being managed by the Social Network for Justice and Development (SNJD).
‘The goal is to create a means of income for the poor citizens and ensure their rights to land,’ he said, ‘and also to minimize the impact of climate change.’
A total of 19 million 63 thousand 800, including 81 lakh 25 thousand 800 from UNDP and 19 million 938 thousand from Kachankawal Rural Municipality and Underground Irrigation Project, has been invested for this program.
Sanjay Kumar Chudal, the program coordinator of SNJD, informed that 9 thousand betel nut seedlings have been planted in about 15 bighas of land after being fenced. He said that out of the 105 families selected by the rural municipality, including the poor, indigenous people, and Dalits, 96 families have been provided land. They will be able to use the land for 20 years. After that, the rural municipality will determine how to use the land, he said.
‘We have given priority to betel nut farming, which is expected to help reduce the impact of climate change along with income generation,’ he said. ‘The beneficiaries have also cultivated vegetables and melons according to their wishes.’
He said that they will get 100 percent of the benefits from farming. He said that there is also a plan to manage the damaged land and provide access to land to the landless.
Say that one hundred to one hundred and fifty betel nut trees have been entrusted to each family, he said, ‘The beneficiaries should take care of it, they will also get the benefits received.’
A deep boring with irrigation capacity has also been constructed in about 50 bighas, and a high-tech tunnel has also been built for plant production, said UNDP Program Officer Suraj Dangal.
‘Around 27,000 plants can be produced in the tunnel at a time,’ he said, ‘If it is done in layers, more than 135,000 plants can be grown in five layers. can be produced.’
Kurwan Miya of Kachankawal-5 said that he has received four kattas of land under the Bagar Kheti program. Stating that he is cultivating vegetables and melons, he said, ‘I am happy to have received the land, earlier there was no irrigation system, now irrigation has also reached.’
Even though land has been given to poor families, there is a problem in getting them to take ownership of it and explaining it to them. Hem Kumar Khadka of SNJD said that although Kapitaya is regularly taking care of the betel nut and the crops he has planted on a daily basis, some have not yet taken ownership of it.
‘To make the program successful, stakeholders need to provide regular small and big support for a few more years,’ he said. ‘It seems that support should be provided until the beneficiaries start getting benefits.’
Vice-Chairman of the Rural Municipality, Nawaraj Bhattarai, said that even though the UNDP and SNJD program period has ended, the Rural Municipality will continue the program it started for the underprivileged citizens by taking ownership of it.
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