50-year-old Ganga Bahadur Thapa of Jaimini Municipality-9 Paiyunthanthap has been cultivating vegetables for two decades in Goudakot near Baglung Bazar. He is earning 15 to 20 lakh rupees annually from vegetable farming. Now, he is not only cultivating vegetables, but he is also engaged in the expansion of fruits using new technology.

Thapa has surprised the locals by building an orange nursery with model technology in Baglung district. He has built a large orange nursery in Bhassa, Panchakot and surrounding areas of Baglung Municipality Ward No. 6, which is about to migrate. He has started 'Panchkot Agricultural Nursery' by taking 5 ropani land of the local to pay 30,000 annual rent. 

They are also producing a plant that tolerates harsh climates by grafting the oranges of the local Koku variety on the roots of a wild three-leafed plant called Tieflat. If the air can play easily in the nursery with plastic tunnels and nets, insects cannot enter. This tunnel is of automation technology. He can irrigate the nursery by sitting in the house located in Banpa 3.

He has added automation technology to keep water as needed in the plants. "When I have time, I work in a firm, I have also taught my neighbors, but if I don't have time, I irrigate at home with the help of a mobile phone," he said. Currently, he has 5 hi-tech tunnels here alone. One of them has mutton and the other has chili. There are also seasonal vegetables. Thapa said that it will be used as a source of regular income. For this campaign, the Prime Minister's Agriculture Modernization Project Baglung has also supported technology and cost sharing.  Thapa, who has received an investment of 400,000 from the

project, said that he has received support for managing the firm. The head of the project, Narayan Paudel, said that this firm has become an example because it uses the latest technology and models in the district. Poudel says that

is also a place where ordinary farmers can be shown, so it has become the best place for farmers to share their learning. Thapa claimed that in one and a half years, the farmers of this area will build nurseries of a similar nature, grow oranges on barren land and bring back the youth who have gone abroad to their villages.

"If something is going to happen, the youth who went abroad can be brought back," he said, "I have worked by renting land to encourage farmers to earn as much as abroad." Thapa has now launched attractive agricultural firms in three locations. Thapa said that he has made a goal to connect all the three firms in the agricultural tourism promotion program.

Even now, there are many people who come to take pictures of him. There are many people who know about his hard work, not only the crops he raised. Those who come on the cooperative tour visit Thapa in search of him. "The state has invested a lot in me, so I have not only worked for the benefit of the farmers," Thapa said, "If we work hard for another 15 years, many farmers will be happy in the village and join the agricultural profession." 

He also said that he aims to make Panchkot a destination for agricultural tourism in a few years as the movement of religious tourists has increased. Paudel, the head of the project, Rajendra Silwal, the head of the Agricultural Knowledge Center and other experts also said that there is a possibility that some changes can be made with their hard work.

In 2072, the government of Nepal gave Thapa the first farmer's identity card. Impressed by his hard work, the then Chief Secretary Lilamani Paudel came to Goundakot of Baglung Municipality 3 and gave him the identity card. At that time, Thapa rented more than 35 plants of land and cultivated vegetables.