Kathmandu, Dec. 27
Assuming her new responsibility at the Ministry of
Agriculture and Livestock Development (MoALD) at Singhadurbar, she said that
she was committed to resolving the problem of chemical fertilisers, which the
farmers were facing for years.
Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has stationed Aryal at
the MoALD changing her earlier responsibilities of the Ministry of Land
Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation after Ghanashyam Bhusal resigned.
She said that storage facilities with 25,000 tonnes
capacity would be created in each province.
“There will be no fertiliser shortage from the next
year. The storage facility will be used to maintain the required amount of
fertilisers so that the farmers need not to be worried,” she said.
She also said that the ministry would launch a
one-door system to mobilise subsidised fertilisers, seed, agricultural inputs
and technology, and grants, agriculture insurance and loans by March next year.
“Real farmers will be benefitted by the new system,”
said Minister Aryal.
According to her, Prime Minister Agriculture
Modernisation Project will be revised as per its objectives so that it will be
more result-oriented. “The ministry will also initiate work to address the
constraints faced by the farmers like poor access to the market and under
valuation of their produces,” she said.
She said separate agencies would be created to
monitor the agriculture and livestock markets.
Minister
Aryal also said that the government would establish storage facility in the Terai-Madhesh
for rice, and resolve the issues of sugarcane farmers.
“The MoALD will immediately coordinate with the
Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies to address the problems of the
sugarcane farmers,” she said.
Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 28 December 2020.
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