Rasuwa. While the number of youths going abroad in search of employment is increasing, a youth of Rasuwa is enjoying yak rearing in the village. Pasang Sherpa, 34, of Nagung of Gosainkunda Rural Municipality-6 has become an example that one can succeed with hard work and hard work in his own village.
After spending three years in Malaysia, Pasang decided to return to his homeland and take up his ancestral profession as he could not earn as much as he expected abroad. With the intention of continuing the yak farming that he had been doing since the time of his grandfather and father, he started the business with 10 yaks that were part of the family.
TAG_OPEN_div_30 It didn’t take long for him to justify his decision to return from abroad. Pasang, who has been engaged in yak rearing continuously for the last 11 years, now has 60 yaks worth about 45 lakhs. The milk and milk products produced by him are sold at the Dairy Development Corporation (DDC) in Kathmandu.
According to Pasang, yaks give milk only for six months in a year. During the milking period, there is a turnover of about Rs 11 lakh. For the remaining six months, yaks live on grass in the pasture area. He said that after deducting the annual expenses, he earns a net income of about five lakh rupees.TAG_OPEN_div_28
Pasang said that the grant of Rs 7 lakh received from Gosainkunda Rural Municipality three years ago has helped to make the business more systematic and expanded. With his own hard work, he has transformed the yak farm into an asset worth Rs 45 lakh, he wants to take the ancestral profession to the new generation. “Instead of sweating in other countries, we get the reward of sorrow in our own village,” Pasang says, “We could not study much because our ancestors were suffering, but today we have reached here on the strength of experience.”TAG_OPEN_div_26 ”
He considers yak farming, which has been going on since the time of his grandfather, as a source of inspiration for the new generation as well. Therefore, to make the business more systematic, he built a cowshed for yaks on 13 ropanis of land in Nagung. While the youth are trying to go abroad, Pasang’s hard work in the village has shown the possibility of employment and income at the local level. His success has proved that if the traditional profession can be made commercial, he can earn a good income even by staying in the village.
Kaisangnurpu Tamang, chairman of Gosaikunda Rural Municipality, praised Pasang’s hard work and perseverance. According to him, Pasang is an exemplary and model farmer of the rural municipality.TAG_OPEN_div_22
Similarly, Karma Dawa Sidar Waiba, chairman of Ward No. 6, said that Pasang’s business success has inspired other youths of the village to venture in their own place. “If such businesses could be started in the country instead of sweating in foreign lands, the situation would not be empty,” he said.TAG_OPEN_div_20
The success shown by Pasang by professionalizing the ancestral profession of the family has given the message that going abroad is not the only option if you want to explore the potential in the village.TAG_OPEN_div_18
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