Makawanpur's Bakaiya Rural Municipality has set the minimum support price for maize. The rural municipality has set the minimum support price for maize produced by farmers at Rs 35 per kilogram.

Chairman Dharmaraj Lamichhane said that the support price for maize was set with the aim of providing relief to farmers within the municipality as farmers have been complaining that they are not getting a fair price according to cost. He said that if farmers get less than the support price in the market, the rural municipality has made arrangements to purchase at the specified price.

The municipality has started setting the support price for maize from the current fiscal year. The municipality has made arrangements so that farmers who want to sell their produce to the rural municipality can sell maize at the Bakaiya Industrial Village operated by the municipality. The municipality has established an agricultural industrial village in Hattikhola, Bakaiya Rural Municipality-7.

A feed and hay industry required for livestock has been established and brought into operation in the industrial village.
The municipality also purchases maize and corn grains. Maize grains are used in hay production, while corn is used in the feed industry. Geographically, the largest rural municipality in Makwanpur, most of the residents here cultivate maize. According to the Bakaiya Rural Municipality Agricultural Development Branch, maize is being cultivated on 140 bighas.

Farmers within Bakaiya Rural Municipality will have to submit a certified copy of their citizenship to sell maize. The rural municipality has brought the industrial village into operation to create employment at the local level and strengthen the agricultural economy. With the aim of attracting farmers in the village to animal husbandry by providing them with cheap feed and hay, it has been operating the industrial village with its own investment and producing silage and feed and providing it to local farmers at a discount.