Author: Himalaya Post

Jajarkot – A milk chilling center has been established for the first time in Western Rukum, the district in Karnali province. The chilling plant has been set up at Solawang of Musikot municipality-6 at the cost of Rs 9.6 million. The Karnali province government contributed around Rs lion to this end while the remaining budget was managed by a local dairy cooperative. The cooling plant has the capacity of storing 3,000 liters of milk at once, as stated by cooperative chair Dhiran Sherpali. The purpose of establishing the center is to make better utilization of milk produced in the district and to find market for it outside the district. In initial days, the cooperative plans to supply the product to Lamahai of Dang and Nepalgunj of Dang. It expects to collect some 2,500 liters of milk on daily...

Rolpa – The smoke-free indoors campaign has remained in limbo in Rolpa district. It has been nine months since the campaign of ‘smoke-free house indoors’ has crossed its deadline, but still there are no signs of the campaign picking up momentum in the district. The campaign had to be completed within 2017. Only 16 thousand out of around 43 thousand households in the district have installed improved cooking stoves in their houses. This shows that 27 thousand households have still not installed the improved cooking stoves in their kitchens. The then District Development Committee (DDC) had decided that Rolpa would be declared the ‘smoke-free indoors’ district within 2017. So far only one rural municipality ward each at Lungri and Runtibadhi, a single ward at Rolpa municipality and two wards at Triveni rural municipality have been declared as ‘smoke-free indoors’ settlements. President of the NGO Federation’s Rolpa district chapter, Karna Bantha Magar, said that the campaign had made some progress as it was supported by various donor agencies in the past and blamed the present local level of neglecting the campaign now. There are more than 300 campaigners in the district for promoting this campaign. They are paid anywhere between Rs 1,000 to Rs 2,000 for facilitating in installing an improved cook stove at a house. Traditional cooking fires are still used in more than half the households in Nepal....