The Karnali Provincial government plans to broaden the development zone to increment apple and walnut yields.

This year, the common government has organized the fruit area development programme.

The common government has progressed this arrange as per the arrangement and program and budget of the current fiscal year. But this program is not new, and the government has been actualizing this program in past financial a long time as well. 

The Service of Land Management, Agriculture and Cooperatives said that the program is being executed in seven locale this year. 

The apple and walnut area extension program is going to be actualized in five locales of the at that point Karnali, counting Dailekh and Rukum West, said Dhan Bahadur Kathayat, representative at the Service of Arrive Administration, Agriculture and Agreeable of Karnali Common government. 

The program will be executed through the District Agricultural Development Office. 

He said that a budget of almost Rs. 1 million has been distributed to each district.

The apple-walnut advancement project is being worked in five areas of the at that point Karnali. The common government said that the zone for walnut generation is too being extended to Dailekh and Rukum West. 

In later a long time, farmers have been pulled into fruit farming or maybe than cereal crops. 

Kathayat said that the program is being actualized to use barren arrive and commercialize fruit farming. 

Farmers will straightforwardly advantage from this program and back the nation to decrease the moment of apple and walnuts, he said. 

The program is being actualized in Kalikot, Jumla, Dolpa, Humla, Mugu, Dailekh and Rukum West of the at that point Karnali.

“Municipalities will be selected for the extend based on a feasibility study in coming years. Technicians will ponder whether the area is reasonable for natural product generation or not,” he said. 

Last year, a budget of Rs. 50 million was distributed for the usage of the programme.

Apple development is favored in the hilly areas of Karnali and orange development in the hilly areas. 

The service said that the zone of natural product development has expanded in the territory compared to the past. 

Farmers are pulled into this segment due to the ease of get to the advertise, productivity and different government appropriation programs for fruit development, he said. 

The 'NAFA Project' is being actualized in Karnali in organization with the government and the common government. 

The service has progressed the program to increment the hone of commercializing fruit cultivation by contributing heavily to apple and orange cultivation.

The NAFA Project will also motivate farmers to develop natural products. Kathayat said that the program is being actualized in organization.

source: risingnepaldaily