Farmers’ Plight

Nepal is undoubtedly an agrarian country where about 90 per cent people are involved in farming. Farmers in the Terai as well as in the hills are busy harvesting rice. Similarly, the businessmen are in the race to buy paddy from the farmers who are in dire need of money to pay back the loans they had taken to celebrate the festivals. However, with increasing import of paddy and rice from the neighbouring country the farmers are not getting good prices for their products. Also they cannot store the rice till its price will go up because they are now in want of money. As such they are compelled to sell rice at a low cost. And the concerned authorities seem to be doing nothing to check the flow of Videshi rice in the country so that the local farmers can get a good price of the rice.

Can’t the concerned authorities do something to help the farmers like us?

D. Bhattarai & Friends
Damak, Jhapa

25 years ago
November 30, 1975

Price Of Rice Fixed

Kathmandu, Nov. 29: The rice exporting companies have fixed the price of 40 kg rice at Rs. 45 and Rs. 112/50 per quintal for its different export points, reports RSS.