Agriculture and Livestock Development Minister Ramnath Adhikari has requested the Japanese government to help establish a high-level milk processing center in Kathmandu.

Japanese ambassador to Nepal, Mayda Toru, in a meeting with Minister Adhikar at the ministry in Sinha Darbar, said that although Nepal has made a lot of progress in the development of the dairy sector, there is a need for a processing center.

Minister Adhikari mentioned that Japan is providing significant support to the development of Nepal's agricultural sector and said that more support is also expected for the modernization of agriculture in the future.

'Japan's increase in production through the use of technology and the achievements it has brought to the field of agriculture as a whole are important, as Nepal also needs to learn the use of Japan in the field of agriculture, we can cooperate for technical knowledge, even now Japanese volunteers are cooperating through various offices under the ministry, through this, Nepalese have got an opportunity to learn the practices of agriculture prevalent in Japan,' said the minister.

Mentioning that Nepal has announced a decade of investment in agriculture and has adopted a policy of bringing in investment, he requested the ambassador to facilitate the investment of Japanese investors in Nepal. The next year will mark the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Nepal and Japan. On this occasion, the minister expressed confidence that the selfless support received from Japan will increase further.  In the

meeting, Japanese Ambassador Toru said that the current cooperation in the agricultural sector will be continued as there are many possibilities in the agricultural sector of Nepal. He also expressed his commitment to study more possibilities of cooperation in the future.