Mugu. In the last fiscal year 2081/82 BS, food items worth Rs 40 million (chino, cowpea, red rice, beans, titefapar, sweetfapar, nafal, barley) were sold in other districts.

Tej Bikram Malla, officiating office chief of The National Agricultural Modernization Programme Implementation Unit, Mugu, said that the food items produced by the farmers of the district were sold outside the district last year.

The programme has been developing the district as a simizon and running various programmes. In addition, the program has started giving 50 percent subsidy to the farmers on the transportation of beans.

The National Agriculture Modernization Programme, Programme Implementation Unit Office had provided rs 490,000 as transportation grant to the farmers for the sale of 74 metric tonnes of beans from the district.

Similarly, 230 metric tonnes of other traditional crops have been exported, including marko, cowpea, millet and fapar organic organic grains. The cost of these crops in the local village is Rs 20.7 million.

Among the traditional grains exported, only beans were given transport subsidy. In the current fiscal year, Rs 500,000 has been allocated for beans duwani grant and Rs 300,000 for transportation of other crops, said Programme Implementation Unit Chief Malla.

Office Chief Malla also informed that a target has been set to export 80 metric tonnes of beans from the district in the current fiscal year.

The farmers of the district produce adequate quantity of traditional food crops such as chino, kauno, red rice, beans, bitter gourd, sweetfpar, nafal and barley. They have been selling at cheap prices in the villages due to lack of transportation to the market and not knowing the market.

Traditional crops will take a good place in rural economic development if the government focuses on exploring marketing and increasing milk subsidies.