Hay houses and irrigation recharge ponds to Sangachok farmers

The locals reach the farmer's hay house near the ward office carrying loads of corn and grass. Inside the house is a state-of-the-art 'silage machine', which packs corn stalks and all other types of hay into bales at once. The packed hay is approximately 50 kg bags.

'Chowpaya can be fed with green grass for this winter as well . In this work, the ward bears the transportation expenses of the locals,' says Roshanraj Giri, president of Chautara Sangachokgadhi-11, 'we are packing and sending grass to the farmers who have come in contact with the city.' Brought to you . The municipality has brought the stocked Kawadi materials and constructed a building by spending 5 lakhs from the ward and established a farmer's hay house. Locals are happy because the grass house saves time for farmers to cut grass and helps livestock.

In the lower part of Panichour, an irrigation pond with a capacity of 10 million liters of water has been dug last year in the partnership of the city and the ward at a cost of 30 lakh rupees. Where the wasted rains are collected . Since the construction of this pond, the need to search for water for farming and tree planting in the ward has been removed . Ward president Giri said that after the earthquake, the source of water dried up everywhere and irrigation became a disaster.

'Now we have collected 25 to 30 million liters of rainwater in this pond, although this is a drought-affected area, four thousand plants have been planted in the ward by utilizing the pond's water. 500 small recharge ponds have been built from Shramdan in places for irrigation and other farming facilities,' said Giri . The water of those ponds ranging from 1 to 100 cubic meters has been easily used by local farmers. 8 km of forest area has been fenced as part of the wildlife control campaign by bringing black wire thrown from Kathmandu Metropolitan City.

Patkar's Compost Fertilizer and Animal Sapti Program

Compost manure has been prepared here by collecting large results that are often lost in the forest. In the middle of the forest, small and big pits are prepared and covered by covering. Ward president Giri said that after some time Patkar compost will be made. "Apart from that, we have run a subsidy program to encourage animal husbandry, willing residents of the ward have been given subsidy money to buy cattle and goats, we have made a provision that the farmers have to repay the loans given by the ward for animal husbandry after three years," he said.

Since these two campaigns were started two years ago, most of the farmers are making compost from Patkar and using it, and most of the farmers in the ward are participating in the Animal Sapti program. "This campaign is also getting meaningful, the farmers are ready to return the money," he said.