Kapil Budhathoki of Baglung, who returned after learning skills in Saudi Arabia, improved his family's income by doing agricultural work.
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There are 4 hi-tech tunnels made of black plastic. Inside the dark tunnel, a girl mushroom has grown. There are more than 650 straw bales that grow mushrooms. The mushrooms planted in the first week of last June have started to bloom.
'One stalk grows up to 3 kg of mushrooms,' says 50-year-old Kapil Budhathoki of Dhorpatan Municipality-4 Dhiri, 'I am aiming to grow more than 1,600 kg in one season.' Mushrooms are sold in the market for 230 to 250 rupees per kg.
Kapil from Dhorpatan, 120 km west of the capital, has been cultivating Kanye mushroom commercially for three years. Also, he has been cultivating green vegetables in plastic tunnels for 7 years. He earned good money from the production of that vegetable. He taught his children and ran the house from that. He said that he chose mushroom cultivation to benefit more than that. There are also 4 more vegetable tunnels in the
garden . Ginger, corn, and sugarcane have also been planted in the remaining fields. About 3 saplings are the same. He has put rice in it . The rice is enough to feed his family of 4. Two cows have also been reared in the barn for manure. That is not enough. Therefore, they buy and bring about 4 tractors of gobarmal in a year.
The land for so much farming is not his . By renting 12 ropanis of land paying 85 thousand rupees annually, a couple from Budhatho left their village home and are making an agricultural revolution in the headquarters. Budhathoki said, "We had a lot of trouble in the village, we didn't grow enough food," said Budhathoki.
Wife Rima works all day in the hi-tech tunnels and in the fields outside. Kapil said he helps his wife in the morning and evening. They have one full-time employee and they are looking for up to 5 seasonal workers.
The son who is studying graduation has also helped in the farm . Kapil himself goes out if he has to sell vegetables in the market. Municipalities, Agricultural Knowledge Center, Prime Minister visits the Agricultural Modernization Project and investigates policies and programs related to subsidies, technical assistance and malabium. Ask for technical support when necessary.
During office hours, he is a driver. The head of the district coordination committee drives the van. Sometimes you have to go far enough to spend the night. There are places within the district that take two or three days. If you go to Pokhara or Kathmandu, you have to forget many days. Therefore, he brought his family members to the headquarters and started extensive agricultural work, but now he has delivered vegetables to many shops in the market. They send mushrooms to hotels and wholesale shops. Being a contract job is not reliable . That's why I started farming for a sustainable source of income,' he said.
He drove a car in Saudi Arabia for 4 years. He returned to the village and drove his own jeep for 7 years. But there was no such earnings . After the local elections of 2074, he got a job driving the vehicle of the coordination committee. But he was not only happy with the job. So he came down to the headquarters with his wife, two sons and a daughter who were studying. He also planned to let his wife have a shop in the headquarters. But after not seeing the situation to get benefit from the shop, he chose agricultural work. "We opened an agricultural farm because we have the skills to work and have long experience," he said.
By registering 'Garima Agriculture Firm', he has managed to make a profit of 6 to 7 lakhs annually. He was surprised the first year when
farm was put into operation. They could hardly find a market for the grown vegetables. There was a lot of suffering and investment, but neither technical support nor subsidy. In the first year, he was disappointed, but he worked to increase the market with the skills he learned in Saudi. He started going daily even to the shop that does not buy vegetables. Instead, he bought some goods and brought them. After getting to know each other, the shopkeepers started to keep his goods.
Now many wholesale shops in Baglung market have mushrooms from his farm. Fresh vegetables are also sold from the garden. Some people get it by ordering . "We have a scooter, so we can pick vegetables and deliver them to the market at the same time," said Rima, "We have also delivered mushrooms to homes as needed." Due to their hard work and the habit of delivering on time, the shopkeepers have also started selling with confidence.
For mushroom cultivation, he lacks straw . He said that there was a problem in transportation as they had to be brought from far away. Although the fertilizer is brought from a nearby firm, the seeds are brought from Kathmandu.
In seven years, Kapil has invested 50 million including the money he earned from Saudi Arabia and his job salary. After seeing continuous hard work and production, Baglung Municipality has invested 1 lakh in the construction of plastic tunnels, 150 thousand by Krishi Gyan Kendra for hi-tech in Golbheda and 4 lakh in cost sharing program for mushroom production by the Prime Minister's Agriculture Modernization Project .
"We have been impressed by his hard work and invested in partnership," said project head Narayan Poudel, "Seeing his hard work and production, the district level monitoring committee has also given a report that the investment is okay."
