In the kitchen of Sita Rokaya of Simkot Rural Municipality-7, vegetables such as tomatoes, radishes, greens, cauliflower, bananas are cooked. She runs the Rokaya Hotel in Simkot Market, where she can serve fresh vegetables to customers. "One is that the ship will not fly, even if there is a flight, they will not bring only the goods," she said. Sometimes there was a situation where vegetables did not come even for a week/ten days.'

Dhugma Bohora of Simkot rural municipality-2 Theheke has been producing various seasonal vegetables in plastic tunnels for 5 years. Although it has been cold in Humla since November with the snowfall, green vegetables, cabbage, cabbage, tomatoes and other vegetables are growing in plastic tunnels near his house. Bohora, who has sold half of the vegetables produced, has earned 40,000 rupees in this season alone. On his neighboring land, Bhandari's garden has also grown vegetables such as cabbage and tomatoes.

The women of Simkot and surrounding villages, located at an altitude of about 3,000 meters above sea level, have started to become self-sufficient through seasonal vegetable farming. There is a wave of commercial vegetable farming in Thehe. Two dozen women there sell vegetables after walking three hours to the headquarters Simkot.

Until five years ago, the demand of headquarters Simkot was met with vegetables brought by ship from Nepalgunj and Surkhet. Road transport facility was reached in Humla only last March. But since the road transport is not reliable, the goods are being transported by ships. But now, although some fruits produced in the Terai have arrived, the arrival of vegetables has stopped completely, said Prem Lama, a local. Due to the vegetables transported by ship from Nepalgunj, the prices in Humla also increased.

"Due to the high cost of transportation, vegetables were reduced to 250 rupees per kg, and there was no need to eat stale vegetables. Sometimes, half of the vegetables arrived rotten when the ship did not deliver them on time," he said.

Lama says that now there is a wave of vegetable farming in Burausiya, Hildum, Bargaon, Langdu, Torpa, Limatang, Dojam, Chhipra and other villages. Nandu Budha, a merchant of Simkot said that most of the vegetables are available in the Simkot market for up to 150 rupees per kg. 

Paddy has started to grow in Papugaon, Mugumkarmarong Rural Municipality of Mugu, which is about 3,400 meters above sea level. "Early due to extreme cold, only one crop lice was grown in a year, after the heat started to increase, we have also started planting paddy field during the rainy season in our village for the past 5/6 years," said the local Chiringdorje Lama. According to him, tomato, chilli, banana and cauliflower are growing in villages such as Rowa, Bhambara, Pina, which are at an altitude of about 2,300 meters above sea level. 

Village chairman Chiringcapne Lama said that after the heat has climbed towards the mountains, now millet, pea and lice are ripening fast. Earlier, the locals celebrated the festival by bringing Marsidhan from Jumla, but now they have started producing Paddy of Chinamuri, Thulidhan, Bhuwalo, Dhogro, Ratalo and other varieties themselves. "It used to take at least 10 months for the crops to ripen because it was very cold. Now due to the increasing heat, the millet planted in May-June has started to be harvested in October," he said.

Ganesh Giri of Khatyad-8 in Mugu is growing mangoes in his garden. He earned Rs 80,000 last year by selling mangoes. Sukadhik's bald paddy has also planted 15 mango plants in turn. Out of that 5 plants are producing. Mangoes are sold at 20 rupees per grain in the local market. Pomegranates, mangoes and bananas that are produced in the Terai have started to grow in the sukadhi at an altitude of about 1,900 meters above sea level.

Locals used to go to Nepalgunj, Dang and Surkhet every year to buy bunches of fruits after they started producing mangoes, pomegranates, bananas and other fruits. Out of the five districts of Savik Karnali, mangoes are grown only in Sukadhik village of Mugu, said Takk Dangar, a local health worker. "Nobody believes that mangoes ripen in our village," he said, "When they come here, they are shocked."

Agricultural scientist Ramesh Sharma said that Raithane crops are disappearing and the vegetable and fruit cultivation in the plains has started to be produced in the Himalayan settlements. "Though this meets the needs of the local people for the time being, it gradually reduces the fertility of Raithane's crop-friendly soil," he said.