Government is committed to attract private sector investment: Minister of Agriculture

"The role of the private sector and cooperatives is important to increase the income of farmers by connecting low-income farmers with the government," said the Minister Adhikari on the occasion of the sixth anniversary of Muktinath Agricultural Company, "Promoting healthy food grains, minimizing the use of chemical pesticides and producing clean, systematic and institutionalized subsidy system. We have made it our main priority to promote farming, chaklabandi and collective farming.' In the

program, Planning Commission member Jay Bahadur Tandon said that a strong regulatory body is needed to attract private sector investment. The program was attended by the National Planning Commission, National Farmers Commission, Rural Municipality Federation, Municipal Association, National Cooperative Federation, Federation of Commerce and Industry, Development Partners and more than 250 stakeholders from the agricultural sector. On the work paper presented in the

program, the speakers opined that the federal government should engage in policy management, the state government in the development of industrial projects, and the local level in production and distribution.