Gulmi . Cultivation of oranges and walnuts has been started collectively in Gulmi by Chaklabandi method. With the help of the government, the local people started cultivating walnuts and oranges on barren land.
Four local people have planted 500 walnut trees on 120 saplings of land in Malika Rural Municipality 5 Chapa Hille. With the 50% support of the Prime Minister’s Agriculture Modernization Project, Project Implementation Unit Gulmi, walnuts were planted on land that had been barren for years at a cost of 1.4 million. Gopal Mahtara, a farmer, says that walnut cultivation was started because it is comparatively more beneficial than other crops and because monkeys do less tillage.
Similarly, orange farming has been started in Satyavati Rural Municipality 8 Varse of the district with tripartite investment. 50 percent of the project implementation unit Gulmi, Satyavati rural municipality and 25 and 25 percent of 18 lakh fifty thousand investment of 13 farmers, 3,400 orange trees have been planted in an area of 200 plantations.
Local Shantimaya Budhathoki says that although they have been cultivating oranges in this area since 20 years ago, they have been able to work with enthusiasm due to the recent support given by the government.
Bishnu Pokharel, a technician from the Prime Minister’s Agriculture Modernization Project Implementation Unit, Gulmi, said that the cost of cultivation will be higher if the Chaklabandi method is used. He said that since the production is more, the attraction of farmers in the district is increasing.
