The price of marsi rice here is only Rs 120 per kg. But Phapar flour is being traded at Rs 200 per kg
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Meena Mahat of Chandannath Municipality-7 in Jumla sold four quintals of phapar flour last week. She was surprised to get a better price than expected. She sold rice flour at 200 rupees per kg. Here, the flour of Phapar is more expensive than Marsi.
When she returned with 80,000 rupees after selling flour at the organic mini market opened by Chandannath multi-purpose cooperative, she found out that Phapar flour was about 80 rupees more than Marsi rice. Here Marsi rice is being bought and sold at Rs 120 per kg.
Tatopani-5 Srinagar's Padam Rawat sells rice flour every year to meet household expenses. In previous years, he was selling flour worth Rs 30,000 to Rs 40,000 annually, this time he sold two quintals worth of flour and earned twice as much money. He said, "Farmers are not engaged in phapar production after different brands of flour started coming from outside". But the future of farmers is seen in the flour of Phapar.'
Meena and Padam are only representatives. More than one hundred farmers have cultivated phapar commercially here. Many of them deliver the phapar flour to Surkhet, Nepalganj and some sell it to Koseli houses in Khalanga. Chandannath Cooperative has the data that a farmer sells wheat flour from a minimum of 5 kg to a maximum of 4 quintals.
Chandannath Cooperative sells more than 3,000 quintals of wheat flour every year. The cooperative sells the flour purchased from farmers for 200 rupees to consumers at 250 rupees per kg. Raju Bohora, manager of Chandannath Mini Market, said that they sell 750,000 worth of phapar flour annually. He said, "Fapar's flour is also taken by domestic and foreign tourists". Tourists who have bought it once have bought it again. Demands are also coming from Kathmandu, Surkhet, Nepalgunj.'
Cooperative has established mini markets in Surkhet and Kathmandu and is selling organic agricultural products including wheat flour. Phapar flour is being bought and sold from more than half a dozen Koseli houses in Khalanga. According to the demand of tourists, cakes and bread are also made in the hotels here.
According to the District Agricultural Development Office, Jumla, Fapar farming is being done in an area of 97 hectares. The Information Officer Deepak Dhami informed that 110 Met Fapars are produced annually. He said, "The demand for wheat flour is high". But the farmers have stopped wearing phapar.'
Now the District Agricultural Development Office has included Phapar farming in the Raithane crop promotion program. Information officer Dhami said that they give seeds of fapar and tools for Godmel . He said, "There is a situation where the farmers are being encouraged even in farming by giving training."
