Pokhara metropolis grants subsidy to farmers for oxen rearing

Pokhara. Pokhara Metropolitan City (KMC) has provided a grant of Rs 10,000 per family to the farmers of metropolis for rearing a pair of oxen. Mayor Dhanraj Acharya informed that the grant has been provided to encourage the farmers who are rearing pair of oxen in the metropolitan city area.

He said that the subsidy has been distributed to the farmers rearing oxen for plough as the tractor could not be used in all the places due to the topography of Pokhara.

A total of 570 farmers had applied for the grant in August last year. The Agriculture Development Branch of the metropolis has started providing money to 550 farmers after the on-site monitoring.