His hands are never empty. Sometimes they weigh the pickles in the box and sometimes they are busy weighing the flour and giving it to the customers. At the open-air festival in Mahendranagar, when the crowd gradually increases, the busyness of 45-year-old Tek Bahadur Karki from Dogdakedar rural municipality-7 Rikhali in Baitadi also increases. His whole family is busy with this.

The pickles produced by Karki are considered very tasty by the customers and they buy them eagerly. Since last year, he has started reaching the festival . After doing good business last year, they have come this time too . Not only at the festival, the pickles produced by him have also started reaching abroad. He says that Nepalis who are abroad are taken by themselves. ``At other times, I deliver door to door according to demand, I sell stalls during festivals,'' said Karki.

Karki makes Amla, Mango, Garlic, Copper and Akbare Chilli Pickles . All this he produces in his own turn . Not only this, they also produce the necessary spices in the garden. Timur, Cinnamon, Coriander, Turmeric all produce by themselves . They only buy cumin from outside . "Everything is delicious because it is grown in its own garden, that's why customers come in search of it once they taste it," says Karki, "Now I have built a house in Dhangadi and am doing business from there." He sells flour such as corn, millet, barley, phapar, and sisno produced in the hills along with pickles. He keeps all the materials in his own house . If someone asks for it, they will put it in an autorickshaw and take it home .

Karki has purchased an auto to deliver goods as per the customer's demand . Apart from that, he said that his daughter would also deliver him on a scooter. They sell only 6/7 lakh worth of pickles in a year . Similarly, they sell different types of flour worth four to five lakhs.

pickles sell at 4 to 600 per kg and flour at 500 and others at 100 per kg. Maize, Millet, Fapar and Barley are produced in their own fields . Sisno flour is also picked from their own garden and made by hand .

Karki's house is on the high hill of Rikhali . There was a lot of drinking water problem at that place. It used to take a whole day to carry water for the house and cattle. ``I spent 35 years carrying water, when water was arranged, then I got free time and started making pickles,'' says Karki. Before that, no one agreed to take water for a house . Karki was also tired of asking Hara . He said that when the water supply was managed, he started using different types of income. "Now I am preparing to go to the festival in Dehradun, India," says Karki. Tare Hotel in Dhangadhi goes to the spices of the products produced in his own garden .