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Sunmaya Tamang of Marsyangdi rural municipality-7 Chinkhola has been cultivating cardamom on the land for 11 bullocks for 20 years. She did not realize that even though she earns money from cardamom, the stalks are useful. In turn, the cardamom stalks rotted or burned.
She got the information that the discarded cardamom stalks can be useful when she took training in weaving handicraft materials from it in Bensishahr.
The cardamom stalks that are thrown away year after year will come in handy. If the products made from this can be sold, money will also come in," said Tamang. She said that after five days of training, she was able to make hats, slippers, pens and bags. We can make a lot of things in the village that have to be bought from the market with money. Now I also teach the village,” she said. He says that he got the knowledge that if it can be woven in a systematic manner, it will generate income.
Takamaya Gurung of Khwalasother Rural Municipality-6, Pasgaon, said that she learned a new way of weaving other handicraft materials from cardamom stalks while weaving chakti from corn husks and gundri from straw in the village. It is suitable to make bags and slippers from cardamom stalks. Now, the products made from the wasted bark have become useful, and they can earn income by selling them,' she said.
The women who took the five-day training organized by the Prime Minister's Agriculture Modernization Project, Project Implementation Unit, will take fibers from cardamom stalks and make handicrafts. Nainkala Gurung taught the women of Marsyangdi and Kholasothar to make pencil boxes, purses, bags, flags and other materials from cardamom stalks.
Hari Bahadur Mizar, head of the project on behalf of the training project organized for women, said that not only cardamom can generate income but also stem (fiber). According to Mizar, a training was organized a few days ago to make women self-reliant, create jobs, sell them in homestays and shops by making use of wasted cardamom stalks. He said that training has been provided to women from a budget of Rs 120,000.
Purna Bahadur Gurung, head of District Coordination Committee Lamjung, said that women have gained knowledge and new ways to benefit by staying at home. Many men are abroad. A new way has been opened for the women of Ghargaon to earn while staying at home. It is necessary to make use of it," he said.
