A climate-friendly village that changed farmers' lives
Jitendra Thapa. A tooth in one hand. A green handkerchief on the head. And Hira Rawat of Vadapokhara is busy cutting vegetables in the garden with scissors in her other hand. Rawat, who has reached the age of 35, reaches the field near the house without light. Dailekh's Dullu Municipality-2 Ward Pokhara's Hira Rawat's life has been like this. Most of his time is spent between making vegetable Godmel and sleeping. From early morning till late in the evening, he seems to be busy with the work of plucking vegetables, picking the fruits, applying water and sowing the seeds. Four years ago, he started cultivating vegetables on a small plot of land for his own food. Sosec Nepal, a leading non-governmental organization in solving the problems of the backward communities, finding out the problems of the rural communities, has changed Hira's daily life after teaching them to produce vegetables together with agricultural materials in vegetable production. Hira, who planted veg...