If you escape from the scorching heat of Kushma and reach Banaun village of Jaljala rural municipality-9, you will find heart-warming cold. After arriving here, who would forget to taste the potatoes that grow in this cold? That's why people come from all over to taste the potato while looking at the Magar culture, local cuisine, Baglung market and the picturesque snow range that seem to live together.

Banoon village is famous for delicious potatoes. Raithane potatoes here are sold before they grow. Ward president Gau Bahadur Pun said, "You don't have to go anywhere to sell potatoes." Traders come right away .

The people of Banau, who grow potatoes only one season a year, grow potatoes from March to March. They sell from June to January. We don't have a moisture center. Bari is the store, here potatoes are not cooked. If it is pulled instead, it will deteriorate," said Tak Bahadur Purja, president of the Manibarah Farmers Group, "Kilo does not work for us. Pathi is calculated . One pathi is sold for 150/200 rupees. He said that one pathi is equivalent to about three kilos of potatoes.

Manibarah Farmers Group Chairman Purja said that Raithane varieties of potato are being planted. A group of 25 people planted 6,000 kg of potatoes on 75 acres of land. "We planted potatoes on 300 plants last year in the 1.2 million program of the Agricultural Knowledge Center Parbat, but this year the program is only 4 million," he said.

According to locals, people from Gorkha, Kaski, Syangja, Baglung and different places of Parbat used to come to Banaun to get potatoes on foot. At that time potatoes were not bought/sold by paying money like now. "Yellow sacks of rice used to be used all over the road to exchange with potatoes," recalls the 36-year-old Purja, recalling the childhood of exchanging potatoes with sacks of rice.

Local Bam Bahadur Garbuja planted potatoes on his 4-planted land. Like many locals in Banau, his main source of income is potatoes. "Bajeka has been growing potatoes since time immemorial." Due to the lack of irrigation, we have not been able to cultivate other crops,' he said, 'the method of planting potatoes is a little different in ours . Making dang and adding potatoes causes more problems . Others dig in two/three months, but we don't dig for five/six months.

Ward President Pun said that the main problem of Banoon is water. We don't have water from February to April. I am trying to advance the drip irrigation work to see if there is any alternative,' he says, 'If only irrigation was done, then a center for rice and seasonal vegetable production could be made in Banaun.' "According to our potato program, there were 40 farmers in the Pohor Manibarah farmers group. Now 25 people are involved," said Prem Prasad Acharya, Agriculture Extension Officer, "There was an amount of 30 million for potatoes from the Pohor state government across the district. This year, the total number of potato farmers in Banau is less than 10 million.

Ramesh Poudel, who lives in Kushma, says that when he says potato, he gets angry. "It's better to add more ghee to it than vegetables and eat it with green chillies and salt," he said with a smile, "Sometimes you can hardly find potato in the market". Many times I have brought a friend to Banu to eat potatoes.' 

Jaljala rural municipality has also provided potato seeds of MSfoti, Janakdev and Palung varieties . But the locals have not agreed to plant the seeds encouraged by the municipality. They are not convinced that the seeds brought from outside will produce more. Purja, the leader of Manibarah Farmers Group, claimed that the potato seeds planted in hot places, even if they grow in cold places, their taste cannot be equal to that of Raithane potatoes.