Chitwan farmers stage protest throwing vegetables on road

Basanta Parajuli / Narayangadh, Feb 3: Farmers of Chitwan have thrown vegetables on the road as their products remained unsold due to a lack of markets.

Local farmers have staged protests by throwing vegetables on roads in Pulchowk, Narayangadh saying the Indian vegetables have displaced local vegetables.

Farmers have blamed the government that it turned a deaf ear to the problems related to the scarcity of fertilizers and the absence of markets for the produced vegetables.

West Chitwan’s farmer Krishna Raj Parajuli observed that farmers are forced to throw their vegetables on roads after their products, vegetables, did not get to markets to sell.

“Indian vegetables have dominated almost all markets. There are no markets for the Nepali vegetables.” He expressed his complaint, “If we don’t throw vegetables on roads nobody sees our vegetables decaying in the field.”