Plant an orange grove by cutting down the bush

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Plant an orange grove by cutting down the bush

After the spread of the Corona epidemic, Bikas Shrestha, a businessman from Beni, who came to Dosalle in Annapurna rural municipality-7 of Myagdi during the lockdown from March 2076, came up with the idea of ​​buying that land and building a house and a garden.

Vikas, who is doing poultry and real estate business in Beni, bought a house in the village for his hobby, and now the hillside Pakhobari at the head of Dosalle village is green.  

'I bought land in Dosalle to live in a peaceful environment in my old age,' he said, 'while working, the orange garden was destroyed.' After the family and relatives of the landowner in Portugal migrated to Pokhara for employment, the orange garden on the land bought by Vikas stopped receiving care. Pakhobari was turned into a bush. 

In the Annapurna fruit, vegetable and agricultural farm operated by Shrestha, 150 old orange trees have started producing after receiving sewage and care. Seven more plants are growing in the garden. 

Shrestha said that 30.5 million rupees have been invested in the farm, including enclosing Pakhobari, making wheat fields, digging trenches and planting orange trees, adding sewage, making structures and purchasing land. 

``This year oranges worth 15 lakh rupees were sold,'' he said, ``I didn't think that there would be such a good income from agriculture, I felt and experienced that if I could do it, it would happen. I have expanded the farm by buying four more seedlings.' 

Vikas said that he joined the agricultural business after being influenced by the life of his late grandfather Suryanarayan Shrestha. Three people have got regular employment in his farm. Along with orange cultivation, local and broiler breeds of chickens are also reared in the farm.

It is Shrestha's experience that chicken manure is useful for oranges. Shrestha said that no subsidy has been received from government agencies for agricultural farms. He said that after directly contacting the traders of Balkhu in Kathmandu and starting to send oranges, they got a reasonable price and the market was ensured. 

After leaving the real estate business, Shrestha, who engaged in agricultural business, entrusted his son Adesh with the management of Jaleshwar Poultry Firm, which deals in feed and chicks in Beni. At a time when people are going abroad and to cities for opportunities, facilities and jobs, they have become an example for the best farmers who came from the market to the village and did agricultural business. 

Dosalle's leading farmer Khagvir Paija said that after Shrestha started orange farming from Beni, those who had left the village came back and started orange farming. "He (Vikas) has not only utilized the barren land," Paija said, "he has introduced new technology for orange cultivation in the village." After learning from him, those who left the market have returned to the village and cultivated oranges.' 

Paiza said that the number of people coming to buy land for orange cultivation has increased and the price of farmland has also increased. Farmers and businessmen come from Beni and nearby places to observe the development's orange garden. The Nilgiri and Dhaulagiri mountains can be seen in the background from the garden. There is a plan to connect Shrestha's farm, which has built a house for guests and himself to live in the middle of the garden, with agricultural tourism.

The farmers of Dosalle, located at an altitude of 1,500 meters above sea level, have made orange farming their main source of income. All 42 households here have grown oranges, said Prem Paija, president of the Dosalle Suntalajat Farmers Group. He said that last year oranges worth 80 lakh rupees were sold from Dosalle, this year oranges worth 1 crore 80 lakh rupees were produced.

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