After gaining experience in operating a plywood industry in Kapilvastu for 6 years, he started a plywood industry in his own place called Akla Industries.
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Shiva Adhikari of Parbat has started a plywood industry with an investment of Rs 100 million.
Adhikari, who is also a construction entrepreneur, had been operating a veneer industry in Paradi, Kushma Municipality-8 for 15 years. Core veneer (veneer sheet) is the raw material required to make plywood. He has expanded the plywood industry on his own 21 ropani land. It operates 24 hours a day. He claims that this is the first plywood industry in the hilly district.
Plywood business was not new to Adhikari. After gaining experience in operating a plywood industry in Kapilvastu for 6 years, he started an industry named Akla Industries in his own place. He has directly employed 300 people in his industry. ‘One and a half hundred male and female workers work as unskilled labor,’ he said, ‘the remaining skilled workers are from the Terai and India.’
The official says that the state has been forced to bring in workers from outside as it has not been able to focus on producing skilled workers.’ He said, ‘We have to go to India to learn the skills of operating machines and repairing them when they break down. It also costs a lot of money. The state needs to provide concessions for this.’
He says that due to the political uncertainty in the country, he is worried that he has invested at the wrong time. He says that the state is unable to provide the necessary security to the businessmen and that the banks have also started exerting pressure. ‘I don’t know what the situation of the country will be like,’ he said, ‘I don’t know what will happen when I have Rs 100 million.’ I have taken a loan of Rs 70 million from the bank and started the work.'
His industry produces B and C grade plywood ranging from 8 mm to 20 mm. So far, the operator Adhikari said that it has been sent to the market as a trial. His plywood is being consumed in cities including Parbat, Baglung, Myagdi, Syangja, Pokhara. He said that he is also getting a good response from the market.
His son Samir Adhikari has helped him. Samir, a construction engineer, has given up his dream of going abroad and is working day and night in the industry established by his father. 'My father has invested his entire life's hard work,' he said, 'I have joined with the goal of taking the plywood produced in our industry to the international market. I hope that one day I will succeed.'
The operator Adhikari said that the trees required as raw materials for plywood should also be cultivated commercially. He says that just like growing vegetables and fruits in the empty fields of the village, one can earn income by cultivating hybrids of trees like Simal, Sisau, Jamun, and Utis. ‘If you want to work hard in the village, come with me,’ he said, ‘I will provide the investment, and I will buy the trees you produce at a good price.’
