Apples worth 92 crores were sold from Mustang in one year

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Apples worth 92 crores were sold from Mustang in one year

Farmers of Mustang district have earned more than 92 million rupees by selling apples this year. According to Agricultural Knowledge Center Mustang, the farmers of Mustang have earned this amount by selling apples this year.

 

The apple farmers of Mustang exported apples worth 82 million rupees from Mustang to Pokhara, Kathmandu and other outer districts, while the remaining apples worth 100 million rupees were bought by the tourists who visited Mustang. 

According to Rajesh Gurung, senior agricultural extension officer who is also the head of Krishi Gyankendra Mustang, 7 thousand 329 metric tons of apples have been produced in 600 hectares of productive area this year. 100 rupees and other apples were sold at 160 rupees per kg. Mustang had a 35 percent increase in apple production this year compared to last year. 

"According to the data based on the information we have received from farmers, apples have been sold from Mustang this year worth around one billion rupees," said Gurung, the head of Krishi Gyan Kendra Mustang, "quantitative details of high density and other apples are not on the table". But the apple production has increased by 35 percent compared to last year.

Agriculture Knowledge Center claims that apple production has increased this year due to the expansion of apple cultivation based on high density (hybrid with high density) and disease management. has done .  Apples worth 92 crores were sold from Mustang in one year

Farmers have said that apples have been harvested from the orchards of Mustang since the second week of November. If most of the apple orchards have run out of apples within the first week of November, some orchards have been harvested after sending apples to the market by the second week of November.

Mustang's Marfa, Sauru, Chokhopani, Chimang, Kowang, Tukche, Jomsom, Kagbeni, Pakling, Lupra, Tambe, Chuksang, Chaile etc. villages are cultivating apples well. Here Gharpazhong and Waragungmukti are apple pocket areas .

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