BUTWAL: Traders, farmers and locals from Marchabar area have worried that the open border adversely impacted the marketing of domestic products.
They argued if the inflow of foreign products was not regulated, it would continue affecting the market of domestic products.
At an interaction organized by business communities including Chamber of Commerce, and Ruphandehi Industry and Trade Organization, the speakers underscored that all sides need to be responsible to ensure adequate market to the locally produced goods.
A local Santaram Koiri said the chicken produced in the country was not getting market because the chicken imported from India was found at lower price. “Lower price of chicken in India and unregulated border has caused smuggling which ultimately put the local entrepreneurs at receiving end,” he asserted.
Similarly, Surya Narayan Yadav viewed investment cost is high so the price of local produce is more than that of Indian products. Without effective marketing of locally produced goods, they would be in loss, he added.
Farmer Ashok Kumar Tiwari viewed unless the chemical fertilizers and irrigation are ensured on time, agriculture would not prosper. The farmers themselves should be allowed to fix the price of their products. “If farmers are not prospered, how can country prosper,” he wondered.
Another farmer Arjun Harijan complained that the grants and subsidy were not reached to the real beneficiaries.
Chairperson of the Industry and Trade Organization in district, Anil Kumar Gyawali, said the farmers in Marchbar were deprived of chemical fertilizers and seeds.
“As the government failed to provide fertilizer to the farmers on time, they suffered much during cultivation,” he complained, adding that local government and entrepreneurs must cooperate with each other.
Chief administrative officer at Kothimai Rural Municipality, Rajan Prasad Shreevastav, also complained that the Marchabar farmers were not allowed the amount of chemical fertilizers they were entitled.
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