In a single year, the district earned 22 million rupees from apple sales.
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Dolpa has exported 400 metric tons of apples this year, according to the Dolpa Program Implementation Unit under the National Agricultural Modernization Program.
Govinda Malla, head of the National Agricultural Modernization Program Implementation Unit Office, Dolpa, said that 22 million rupees have been brought into the district from apples. According to him, apples have been exported from Dolpa to Jajarkot, Salyan, Rukum, Dang, Pokhara, Surkhet, Kathmandu and other districts with the support of 50 percent transportation subsidy from the office for apple export.
Along with this, the office has made public the action plan for the fiscal year 2082/83 and has also completed a public hearing program.
In the ongoing fiscal year, the office has stated that it will spend 36 million 57 thousand rupees on various programs, including 25 million 93 thousand rupees on capital and 33 million 465 thousand rupees on current. According to the annual approved program, the office says that this year it will work on creating apple, walnut, pulses/beans, sheep-goat, and potato zones.
The office is working by creating apple zones in wards 3 and 4 of Tripurasundari Municipality, 11 of Thulibheri Municipality, all wards of Jagadulla Rural Municipality, 7 of Kaike Rural Municipality and 6 of Mudkechula Rural Municipality as working areas. According to the office, the target is to expand apple cultivation in 50 hectares of area in the current fiscal year and to expand high-density Fuji apple variety in one hectare of area.
After the apples produced in Dolpa started finding a market in the past few years, farmers have been attracted to apple farming by abandoning traditional farming. This year, Dolpa farmers sold apples from the tree for fifty rupees per kilogram. In Dolpa alone, apples are cultivated in more than one thousand hectares of area.
