The Agriculture Development Office, Nawalparasi Purba, has distributed almost Rs 450 million in grants to the farmers in the last five fiscal years since 2077/78 BS. 

Information Officer Bishwas Kafle said that the amount was distributed to a total of 951 farmers in the district. He added that the amount ranged from Rs 870 to Rs 50 million based on the programs. 

According to Kafle, Jugepani Tamangtol Farmers' Group received Rs 50 million under the crop insurance scheme. Likewise, a farmer has received such grants under different schemes as well.

The Agriculture Development Office has been providing grants to the farmers for commercial vegetable farming, fruit garden management and expansion, establishment and expansion of small farmers' agricultural farms, maize seed production and maize farm promotion, advanced agricultural tools exhibition, small irrigation programs, off-seasonal vegetable promotion and several other programs. 

Chief of the Office, Rajesh Silwal, said the office has given top priority to the highway-corridor-focused crop production and promotion program, emergency services and relief programs; onsite training for specific crops, the foodstuff promotion project; and vegetable production and promotion, among others, in the current fiscal year.  

For the current fiscal year, the office has allocated Rs 51.7 million in its budget, most of the approved programs have already been initiated, and others are still in process, according to office chief Silwal.

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