2014 has given a good start for me. In the first month of the year, I got the chance to visit a Lokta paper Enterprise at Deurali-Sankhuwasabha and a Kiwi Farm at Hile-Dhankuta. Me and one of my colleague visited the enterprises and conducted business assessment and suggested areas to improve. The product offerings of the enterprises are written below:
Tinjure Non Timber Forestry Enterprise:
Founded in 2062, Tinjure is a community based forestry enterprise that makes Non Timber Forestry Products (NTFP) from the forest resources of 14 member community forests. The company now makes lokta paper sheets (Nepali handmade paper sheets) and Japanese paper sheets (made from lokta and argeli). The company currently produces 4 kg, 6 kg and 8 kgs of paper sheets.
The company has also started a nursery farming and has piloted its business model by supplying seedlings to the member community forests itself. After the successful piloting over the past years, the company is now planning to expand the nursery business. It now supplies the seedlings of lokta, load-shalla and is exploring the market of other products.
This company is also piloting in the making of laligurans juice from the wildly harvested laligurans trees in the member community forests.
The company can be contacted at : 9842219370, 9852051191
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| Drying of lokta sheets on the sun |
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| Paper production through Japanese tech. |
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| Putting the lokta pulp on the wooden frames |
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| Wooden frames in which lokta sheets are dried |
Indra Traders:
Frustrated by the subsistence farming done by his parents, Mr. Indra Tamang decided to open a farm and be involved in the agriculture in a commercial level. Thus in 1993, he started farming of cardamom in 0.75 Hectare. Now, with time, he has expanded his product portfolio to kiwi farming (1st commercial level kiwi nursery in Nepal), ground apple nursery, big cardamom farming, chiraito farming etc in over 50 hectares of land.
Mr. Tamang is very keen in agricultural experimentation and is now piloting the commercial production of tomato in his farm at Hile. Mr. Tamang, producer, sourcer, processor, marketer is curreclty supplying his products to the Indian market and is looking for opportunities to collaborate with other entrepreneurs and enablers who could help him tap the foreign markets for his products.
He is a good resource person for buying and selling of aforementioned products. He can be contacted at: +977- 02-6540113
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| dried leaves of ground apple |
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| Tunnel farming of tomato |
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| kiwi nursery |
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| Mr. Tamang in his nursery |
