Nawalparasi second largest honey-producing district after Dang

By Our Correspondent

Parasi, June 13: More than 2,000 farmers in Nawalparasi district are involved in bee keeping and every year the farmers in the district produce about 260 quintals of honey - making it the second largest honey-producing district after Dang.

Assistant crop protection officer Debesh Kumar Mishra of the District Agriculture Office said the farmers earn more than Rs. 28 million from honey and every year each farmer earn a minimum of Rs. 100,000 on the average by selling honey.

Karunsagar Subedi, owner of Sagar Beehive Indutry said one hive can produce 50 kg of honey and each kilogram of honey sells for Rs. 350.

Bee keeping is taking the form of an industry, and another bee keeper Hari Bahadur Thapa Magar said many farmers were encouraged to take up bee keeping as an industry after the Gandaki Concern in Balaju assured them to buy all their honey.

Every year the Balaju-based firm buys honey worth Rs.10 million from the farmers of Nawalparasi alone, said a staff of the Concern Sadhuram Shrestha.

Mishra said the district agriculture development office provide them with training and know-now, and take them to observation tours.

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