Grants for Honey and Black Gram Production Elate Farmers in Tanahun

Photo: RSS

Damauli (Tanahun), June 11: Local farmers have no bound of happiness after receiving grants from Anbukhaireni Rural Municipality for honey and black gram production. The grants were provided to encourage farmers under the production-based grant programme.

According to Santosh KC, chief of the agriculture department of the municipality, grants were provided at the rate of Rs. 25 per kilogram to attract farmers to honey and black gram farming.

Farmers of Anbukhaireni – 4 and 5 have received a total grant of Rs. 393,450 for producing honey and black gram in the current fiscal year.

The municipality has also arranged transportation of the production to the market. KC said, “There is potential for pulse and honey production in the municipality. A grant policy has been implemented to sustain farmers in this sector”.

In the current fiscal year, 123 farmers associated with seven farmers’ groups have received grants for the same.

Farmers circled in the Thamchuli beekeeping farmers’ group in Anbukhaireni-4 received a grant amounting to Rs. 17,700 for producing 450 kilograms of black gram and 258 kilograms of honey.

Similarly, farmers associated with the Khasrang village farmers’ group in Anbukhaireni-4 have produced 258 kilograms of honey.

Farmers affiliated with the Khola village farmers’ group in Anbukhaireni -5 have received a grant of Rs 64,750 for producing 2,590 kilograms of black gram. Likewise, farmers associated with the Indradevi farmers’ group have accessed a grant of Rs 26,250 for producing 1,050 kilograms of black gram.

As informed, farmers from the Bhukundi Kheusing farmer group received a grant of Rs 150,175 for producing 6,007 kilograms of black gram.

Farmers enrolled in the Thanimai farmers’ group of Anbukhaireni municipality-4 obtained a grant of Rs 43,575 for producing 1,732 kilograms of black gram and 11 kilograms of honey.

Chairperson of the Khola village farmers’ group, Shukmaya Praja, noted that production-based grants have attracted farmers to farming.

She told RSS that, “After the municipality provided support for black gram and honey, the farmers can sustain themselves in this field”. Likewise, chair of the Bhukundi Kheusing farmers’ group, Bimala Gurung, expressed confidence that the grant policy would attract farmers to agriculture.

Rastriya Samacahr Samiti (RSS)