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The residents of Thaha Municipality, which is located in the northern area of Makwanpur, are not allowed to dig potatoes. It is time for the residents of all 12 wards of Thaha municipality to dig and sell potatoes.
The residents of the area are now busy digging potatoes. Potatoes planted in January are dug from the third week of May. This year As the weather is good for potato production, potato production has increased .
"Potato production is good," local farmer Sudarshan Bista said, "traders are coming from outside to buy potatoes." White potatoes are sold at 30 rupees per kg and red potatoes at 40 rupees per kg. Potato farmers in this region are happy because the price of potatoes is good.
'Traders have been buying potatoes from the fields by digging,' said farmer Navraj Karki, 'Potatoes have grown well this year, and the price is better than before.' , Kalaiya, Pokhara and other cities.
know that according to the municipal agriculture branch, potatoes worth about one billion rupees are exported annually from the municipal area. The farmers of this region now plant Cardinal, Dejure, Khumal Rato, Janakdev and Kukhure Jyoti varieties of potato. Potato planting starts from the second week of January. 'Potato planting can be done by the first week of February. The digging of potatoes starts from the third week of May,' said Sanjay Ozhed Tiwari, head of Thaha Agriculture Branch.
According to the Agricultural Development Office, potatoes are grown in 6,300 plants in Thaha municipality. Last year, nearly 8,000 tons of potatoes were produced. It is estimated that 10,000 tons of potatoes will be produced this year. 'Last year too, the production of potatoes in Thaha Municipality was good was But the selling price was not as it is now, it was cheap,' said Arjun Karki, a farmer of Palung.
Farmers in Daman, Palung, Bajrarahi, Chitlang, Tistung and Agra areas of Thaha municipality are currently busy in potato fields. Vegetables are the main source of income for farmers in the municipality. Most of them are potatoes. Potato production is the economic of most of the residents of the area. Determines the business. Savik's Daman, Palung, Agra, Tistung, Chitlang and Bajravarahi gavis are made up of 100% of the land in the Thaha Municipality. Potatoes are cultivated.
In this area, up to 15 quintals of potatoes are produced per plant. Farmers in this area meet their needs from the income of potatoes. Fulfilled. Due to the lack of workers, there are problems when planting and digging potatoes. Due to the lack of place to store potatoes safely, farmers dig potatoes and sell them from the field.
The municipality collects about 57 to 60 million rupees annually from the potato tax alone. For five decades, potatoes and other vegetables exported from here Local taxes are levied. From the year 2031, 'Taha' Rupchandra Bista started taxing potatoes in Daman and Palung.
The amount collected from that tax is the educational development of this area And it was being spent for physical infrastructure. The said tax is currently being levied by Thaha Municipality. Potato farming in this area has been started since 2018 according to local elders.
'Earlier, potatoes were cultivated only for vegetable consumption, now potatoes are cultivated for sale. The lifestyle of the residents of this region is connected with the production of potatoes. Along with potatoes, other vegetables have also started to be cultivated in a commercial manner,' said Karki, a local farmer, 'but the main source of income is potatoes. Rupchandra Bishta is also the one who started off-season vegetable farming in this area are Vegetable farming has an important role in raising the awareness level of the residents of this region to change economically and advance educationally.'
There are 8,995 households in Thaha municipality, which is known as a tourist area. According to the census of 2078, there is a population of 39 thousand 163 in the municipality. There are more women than men in that Napa. It is known that there are 19 thousand 922 women and 19 thousand 241 men.
