Ensuring Vegetable Sustainability, “Beautiful Bumthang”
Dasho Dzongdag, Bumthang Dzongkhag Administration has met with the DAO and team including Gewog Agriculture Extension on 20/08/2018 with the following aims;
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To stabilize the prize of the vegetables in Bumthang Dzongkhag.
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To Assure reasonable price and market to vegetable farmer of Bumthang Dzongkhag.
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To ensure continuous supply of vegetables in all the seasons especially during winter.
Dasho and the team discussed and decided that the Sunday Market will sustainable. To do so, team must support the farmers to produce more vegetables in every season. The greater challenge is to produce more vegetables for the coming winter especially November through February, in this regard Dzongkhag Agriculture Officer and Team pledged that they will work hard to produce enough vegetables for the winter season.
Dasho wished them good luck!
Dasho Dzongdag and Dzongkhag Administration would like to acknowledge Gups of four gewogs of Bumthang who supported this noble initiative of producing and supplying all season vegetables. Effort is underway to connect vegetable farmers directly to the hoteliers and other consumers.
“The journey towards Beautiful Bumthang”.