KATHMANDU: Prime Minister KP Oli, as usual, amused the audience at a program here on Tuesday suggesting them to eat healthy Nepali food such as daal-bhaat, and veggies.

“Eat healthy food, and you will no longer have to run behind drugs,” he said.

Speaking on the occasion of 62^nd National Cooperatives Day, PM Oli said, “Do not run behind medicines in the name of modernization. Go for healthy food.”

Expressing sarcasm over what he said ‘unbridled use of pesticides’ on vegetables and fruits, PM Oli said, “Those (pesticides and chemicals) are meant to make the fruits and veggies mad and fat. Let’s stop making fruits mad.”

Referring to the use of chemicals, PM Oli suggested farmers saying: “Let’s not make an orange as big as a pumpkin.”

Prime Minister Oli went on to praise the medicinal values in garlic and turmeric. “Consume garlic, turmeric, fresh vegetable instead of tablets,” he suggested amid laughter.

He suggested farmers to think of an alternative way if their products failed to get market. “Produce cream, whey or even curd if milk did not go well,” he quipped.