A success story " Goat farming holds promise to former teacher" Until 3 years ago, Lokendra Bayak, who lives in Turmakhad Rural Municipality of Achham district, Nepal, was known in the village as a teacher. But now he has earned a new moniker as a goat farmer. He no longer teaches at the school. Three years ago, Bayak quit his job as a teacher at Bishwa Secondary School and started to...
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Goats are good investment: A Nepali farmer’s story By Deepak Adhikari                     At around noon this past Spring, a herd of about five dozen goats raced down a slope to the courtyard of a small mud and stone house nestled in the forest in Kumikot, some 10 kilometres east of...
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Yogi’s journey from subsistence farmer to one of top traders of Surkhet By Deepak Adhikari Govinda Yogi manned the counter of his vegetable shop along a bustling road in Birendranagar, the headquarters of Surkhet district in mid-western Nepal. Green vegetables-- cabbages, cucumbers--were kept on racks as Yogi’s employees took orders from customers and weighed the vegetables. It was...
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How Goma Chaudhary went from earning 30,000 rupees to 3 lakh rupees in 3 years By Deepak Adhikari After she moved with her school teacher husband to Salli Bazaar, a small town in Salyan district twenty years ago, Goma Chaudhary opened a small convenience store to support the family of six. Her husband, Samuj Lal Chaudhary, taught science and math at a school which took him two hours...
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 Enriching both the heritage of traditional loom-weaving and the lives of rural women of Sabangan, Mountain Province is the founding aspiration of the Sabangan Weavers Association (SaWA), a livelihood interest group (LIG) supported under the Second Cordillera Highland Agricultural Resource Management (CHARM2) Project since 2015. GENEROUS START “We actually started when the...
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