The use of gintha has also contributed to economic savings by reducing electricity and gas consumption.
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The temperature in Upper Mustang reaches minus 20 degrees. During winter, life in Upper Mustang is affected due to the cold.
In Upper Mustang, most of the citizens have gone down to the valley to escape the winter cold. Some people are taking care of their household and livestock.
After most of the citizens of Upper Mustang have gone down to the valley to escape the winter cold, the rural settlements of Lomanthang and Loghekar Damodarkunda rural municipalities have become deserted. During the winter season, the local citizens who have not gone down to the valley are finding it difficult to bear the cold. The irregularity of electricity and communication services, and the freezing of water in the houses and safety tanks due to the cold have adversely affected the daily lives of the locals.
The citizens of Upper Mustang have started taking the help of guiintha to escape the winter cold. There is a problem of firewood due to the lack of forests in Upper Mustang, a dry plateau. Even though electricity and gas are used during the rainy season, the people there make compost from livestock dung and use it as energy to survive the winter.
Pasang Gurung of Lomanthang-3 Thingar informed that since only one crop is grown in Upper Mustang every year, it is customary to make compost from livestock dung and use it as energy. He said that since the livestock dung required in the fields here is in high demand, it is dried in the sun and used to make compost for heating, heating water and cooking food.
A large number of local people in Upper Mustang are engaged in yak and sheep farming. The locals continuously dry these yak and sheep dung in the sun and prepare compost. However, this practice has been going on in Upper Mustang for centuries.
In Upper Mustang, yak dung and sheepskin boots are dried in the sun and then stored in sacks. The dung stored in this way is used as energy as needed, said Dhinduk Gurung of Lomanthang-2 Kimling. Gurung says that the dung prepared from the dung of livestock here is more efficient than firewood, so it is easy to use as fuel for heating fires and cooking food in the winter months.
Locals make dung by collecting the dung of livestock that is wasted in farmland and grazing areas. In this way, after the use of dung as energy here, dung has become a reliable alternative to firewood. The use of gintha in Upper Mustang has contributed to economic savings by reducing electricity and gas consumption.
