Prajapati, Susan

A Report on

Field Visit to Balthali

Balthali DC, Kavrepalanchowk

Submitted By

Susan Prajapati
BBA Marketing

Year III Semester II

Kathmandu College of Management

Siam University

This report has been submitted for the partial fulfilment of the course on

Product and Price Management

Conducted by

Mr B.G. Bhattacharya

December, 2016
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The report on the field visit to Balthali Village, organized in the month on November, is

approved by the Examination Committee:

_________________________________________

Mr B.G. Bhattacharya (Course Facilitator)

________________________________________

Dr. Pushpa Raj Adhikari (Academic Director)

Kathmandu College of Management

2016
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Abstract

Balthali is a little town discovered 40 Km Southeast from Kathmandu simply past

Panauti and Khopasi. It is a beautiful town stacked with green patio fields, vegetations,

family unit animals, and poultry. We can value the day break with the point of view of

awesome Himalayan extent of Manaslu, Langtang and Everest in the north, limitless rice

patios in the west and thick green timberland of Mahabharata range in the South. A

champion among the most colossal segments that draw in voyagers to this town is that it is

warm in winter and cool in summer.

The Village is in the blink of an eye getting an adjustment in the style of living

with the workplaces and support gave by the Balthali Village Resort which is controlled by

Mr. Ram Humagain. The Resort has in like manner given the area tenants various

opportunities to win and make themselves, the agricultural division and the tourism

portion. According to Mr. Humagain, practically 70-80% of the town's people are

incorporated into cultivation, yet people today are expelling their eagerness from

cultivating and settling on various purposes for living and likes to go to another nation for

their benefit, be that as it may he needs people to understand the essentialness of

agribusiness as a calling and agribusiness and other calling must go as one. The issue of

migration and youths flying out to another nation for studies and occupation might be

because of there is no honest to goodness school office in the town. To get quality

preparing they have to achieve Banepa or Khopasi which is far away from the town.

As our informational trip we were taken to a town named Balthali on 25th of

November to do a fitting examination on the calm activities that the adjacent people of that

domain performed to keep up their consistently work. The standard explanation behind

this outing was to make usage of our speculative data, taught by Mr. B.G Bhattacharya in
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our course of "Cost and item organization". Balthali is a fabulous town, with parts and

loads of greenery and an astoundingly troublesome however fun trekking course.

We were taken to Balthali Village Resort, which was arranged at top of the incline,

so with 45 minutes of trekking we came to at the resort, from where we could value the

exquisite scene of Balthali town. The foremost night we had a meeting held at the get-

together passageway of BVR where we got the chance to meet the villagers who earned

their living from different fields in their town, some of them were from deplete business,

some of them were from guideline field, some of them were from characteristic vegetation

felid, and some of them were from social pro.

We had an individual meeting session where we got the chance to posture diverse

request relating to our investigation and other question which we were intrigued about as

well. We investigated numerous subjects and territories to get profound understanding of

it, for example we inquired about on 4 crucial themes they are:

Organic vegetation
Poultry Farming
Milk Farming
Homestay tourism

We examined these subject through balanced meeting with different

neighbourhood individuals of Balthali town, and discovered that practically every family

unit of this town had a kitchen cultivate and claimed some sort of residential creatures and

delivered as needs be to acquire their living. They faced issues, for example, advertise not

being accessible for their created items or the issue of infrastructural accessibility.

In any case, each part of Balthali town is gradually and bit by bit creating in light of the

fact that the nearby and global vacationers are gradually perceiving this place as a result of

its fun and testing trekking course with delightful view or landscape of the greenery of the
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town. This will help them to be inspired to serve to the general population and continue

creating and offering out to the market.

This will help them grow monetarily, which will help them to conceal different

emergency, for example, infrastructural emergency, wellbeing administration emergency,

mechanical emergency and so forth which will at last acquire general improvement

Balthali Village bring joy and success on every single a portion of their old and new

attempts.
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Biographical Sketch

PRAJAPATI SUSAN

Thimi, Bhaktapur

Tel. +97798400160046 E-mail. susanp2018@kcm.edu.np

CORE COMPETENCIES

Solid experience of 1 year in a leading meat processing company, Sales and Marketing

Department

Experience in handling customer service

Focused on marketing

Experience in event management and operations

Clear vision for the overall development of self as well as the organization

Experience as a club coordinator, KCM Student council, 2015-2016

Experience in conducting national level college event Nepal Management

Symposium,2016

Experience in working for The story tellers, music series

CAREER ASPIRATION

To contribute in a leading advertising agency, with my past experience and learning

aiming to create better brand awareness and increase profitability.

EDUCATION

Kathmandu College of Management 2014 Present/ Kathmandu,

Nepal

Bachelors of Business Administration in Marketing

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Concentration in Marketing

Secured 2.78 CGPA

Opportunity to learn beyond classroom

International degree at Siam University, Thailand

Actively participated in events like ICMC, Marketing and was also the mentor for the

incoming students

Strong case studies focused and presentation learning class room method

Arts club Ex-com, 2015

Ace Higher Secondary School 2014- 2016/Kathmandu, Nepal

+2 in commerce

Secured 60%

Managed College level educational and student clubs.

Gyanodaya Bal Batika 2012 /Lalitpur, Nepal

SlC

Secured 70%

EXPERIENCE

M&S V MAG May July 2016/ Kathmandu,

Nepal

Intern, Associate

Worked in Photographer.

Assisted the company and photo shoots.

Helped in the success of the company

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Kailsh Bikash Bank June July 2015/ Bhaktapur, Nepal

Intern, Associate

Worked in Costumer care department.

Learned to deal with customers.

Experienced different activities carried out in bank.

LANGUAGE

Native Level: Nepali

Fluent: English

Conversational: Hindi

Level 1: Chinese

COMPUTER

Microsoft Office Package

Adobe Photoshop
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Acknowledgement

I would like to express my very great appreciation to our facilitator Mr.Bodhisattwa

Gautam Bhattacharya for providing us with this Balthali visit project. I would also like to

offer my special thanks to our respected principle Mr. Bishnu Raj Adhikari.

I am particularly grateful for the assistance given by Mr. Sakar Regmi who has helped

us in making this project successful. Assistance provided by Mr. Ram Prashad Humagain and

the villagers of Balthali who has helped us giving the knowledge and information was greatly

appreciated. I would also like to thank all my classmates of Kathmandu college of

Management without whom this trip would have been worthless and this project could not

have been completed. With this field visit I have come to know many things about our

country, village areas and people living in village areas.

Susan Prajapati
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Contents

Abstract.....................................................................................................................................iii

Biographical Sketch..................................................................................................................vi

Acknowledgement....................................................................................................................ix

Introduction................................................................................................................................1

Background of Balthali village...............................................................................................1

Background of Balthali Village Resort...................................................................................3

Purpose of the research..............................................................................................................6

Areas Covered in the research....................................................................................................8

Methodology............................................................................................................................10

Primary Source.....................................................................................................................10

Secondary Source.................................................................................................................10

Organic Farming.......................................................................................................................11

Problems...............................................................................................................................13

Recommendations................................................................................................................14

Poultry Farming.......................................................................................................................15

Pricing...................................................................................................................................17

Problem.................................................................................................................................17

Recommendations................................................................................................................18

Home Stay Tourism..................................................................................................................19

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Pros of Homestay.................................................................................................................19

Cost..................................................................................................................................19

Cultural Immersion..........................................................................................................19

Language Skills................................................................................................................20

A Home Away from Home...............................................................................................20

Cons of Homestay................................................................................................................20

Rules.................................................................................................................................20

Lack of Allies...................................................................................................................20

Feeling Dependent...........................................................................................................20

Problems...............................................................................................................................21

Recommendations................................................................................................................21

Dairy Farming..........................................................................................................................23

Problems...............................................................................................................................24

Suggestions...........................................................................................................................25

Consult the Experts..........................................................................................................25

Create a Waste Management Plan....................................................................................25

Dairy Farming is a Biological System.............................................................................26

One Size Does Not Fit All................................................................................................26

Focus on supplementary products....................................................................................26

Mushroom Farming..................................................................................................................27

Pros.......................................................................................................................................29
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Little Space.......................................................................................................................29

Short cultivation period....................................................................................................29

Simple process.................................................................................................................29

Gainfulness and rate of return..........................................................................................29

Cons......................................................................................................................................30

Market..............................................................................................................................30

Perishability......................................................................................................................30

Water................................................................................................................................31

Edible types......................................................................................................................31

Disease.............................................................................................................................31

Suggestions......................................................................................................................31

Terrace Farming.......................................................................................................................33

Pros.......................................................................................................................................34

Cons......................................................................................................................................34

Conclusion................................................................................................................................35

Reference..................................................................................................................................36

Annex: Questionnaire for the Field Visit.................................................................................37

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Introduction

Background of Balthali village

Figure 1 Balthali village

Balthali is a town advancement board of trustees in Kavrepalanchok District in the

bagmati zone of focal Nepal. The little settlement with one of the rich social and regular goal

of Balthali town (1,730m) is remaining on the level, just past Panauti over 34 km far from

Kathmandu. The town is arranged at the intersection of Roshi and Ladku waterways. At the

season of the 1991 Nepal evaluation it had a populace of 2473 and had 496 houses in it

however now, there are around 4000 populace in the whole town with 75% of Brahmin and

Chettri and 25% of them are Tamang.

Balthali is a little town found 40 Km Southeast from Kathmandu just past Panauti and

Khopasi. It is a delightful town loaded with green patio fields, vegetation, local creatures, and

poultry, ochre painted houses and thoughtful tenants. We can appreciate the dawn with the

perspective of great Himalayan scope of Manaslu, Langtang and Everest in the north,
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incalculable rice patios in the west and thick green backwoods of Mahabharata range in the

South. A standout amongst the most critical components that pull in travellers to this town is

that it is warm in winter and cool in summer. A standout amongst the most vital elements of

this spot is that it is warm in the winter and cool in the mid-year.

The Village is currently getting a change in the style of living with the offices and

support gave by the Balthali Village Resort which is claimed by Mr. Ram Humagain. The

Resort has likewise furnished the neighbourhood tenants with numerous chances to procure

and create themselves, the farming area and the tourism segment. As indicated by Mr.

Humagain, very nearly 70-80% of the town's populace are included in agribusiness, yet

individuals today are removing their enthusiasm from farming and selecting different callings

and likes to travel to another country for their profit, yet he needs individuals to comprehend

the significance of horticulture as a calling and farming and other calling must go as an

inseparable unit. The issue of movement and youths travelling to another country for studies

and occupation may be on account of there is no appropriate school office in the town. To get

quality training they need to achieve Banepa or Khopasi which is far off from the town.

Around 70% of populaces are included in agribusiness and the principle generation

done by villagers are potatoes, oranges, drain, and so on. A large portion of the adolescent

and more youthful individuals are all abroad for the work reason or taught one who differs in

working in the horticulture field, so the greater part of the agribusiness is done just by the

matured or senior individuals in Balthali town. Though, corporate or government schools

does not have great circumstance so for the quality trainings understudies need to go far from

home, i.e. either at Banepa or at Khopasi. The infrastructural improvement of the town has

radically changed in contrast with past days and for that Lincoln school in Kathmandu has

helped a great deal to Balthali in that specific circumstance.

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In addition, the foundation of resorts and lodgings in the town has prompt to

advancement of the town and helped the villagers to create their wage all alone. Furthermore,

Balthali town has been advanced in touristic put in Nepal. The resorts and lodgings that are

set up there in Balthali towns purchases the items that the villagers produces like vegetables

and drain, this have helped the villagers to create some pay and spur them to deliver

significantly more, furthermore the resorts and inns there can get natural and new vegetables

with the goal that they can give it to their visitors. Likewise, the streets are being produced to

make the courses to lodgings. Thus, the lodgings and resort in Balthali town have helped

town in financial and also infrastructural advancement.

Background of Balthali Village Resort

Figure 2 Balthali Village Resort

Mr. Ram Prasad Humagain, the proprietor of Balthali Village Resort, required in

tourism part at 1983 A.D before setting up the Resort in Balthali Village. At to start with,

amid his young days, he used to guide visitor who used to visit Nepal, because of this he

could make great associations with remote sightseers, later he thought to build up his

expertise and thought for learning diverse dialects to guide traveller and he picked and

learned German dialect in 1991 A.D, as around then there was minimum number of aides
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who realized that dialect to guide German voyagers. His hard works pays off, he got

enormous chances to work for German office for Nepal furthermore could manage German

traveller in Nepal. Guides amid those days just utilized take the visitor as a part of religious

places in Kathmandu for visit, while, Mr. Humagain used to take them in country ranges for

trekking and different brave exercises. Additionally, he used to assume to his conceived

position i.e. Balthali Village and fulfil the vacationer giving them a decent administrations

and welcome in the town. At that point at last the vacationer whoever used to visit his town,

requested that and recommend him set up visitor house in the town and bolstered him.

Having a decent association with numerous German and worldwide voyagers, he was

inspired to set up a resort in Balthali town and after numerous difficult circumstances he

purchased the land in the town for resort lastly was effective in building up the resort in

Balthali, that now has helped numerous villagers in producing their wellspring of salary and

created foundations and financial status of the town.

He have truly endeavoured to advance is business, he reached with the many travel

office in Kathmandu and asked for them to make the traveller to visit his place for that he

offered them in a shoddy cost likewise without any expenses for directing the voyagers,

because of this reason the travel office used to send the vacationer in the town and the resorts

work was to give them full fulfilment in any case this made them drawing in more travel

organization and in addition other worldwide and local visitor. Furthermore, for advancement

of the towns he has contributed his own cash for developing the street in town with the goal

that it will be simpler for his visitor to go to his resort and in addition less demanding for

different villagers in voyaging.

Presently, Balthali Village Resort is a little, helpful withdraw with an immaculate

perspective of green porch fields spotted with ochre painted houses and black out tint of
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Himalayan crests in the north skyline. It is found just past Panauti town and Khopasi (40 KM

southeast from Kathmandu).

It offers a dawn in the east, hypothesizing Himalayan scope of Manaslu, Langtang and

Everest in the north, incalculable rice porches in the west and gigantic bodied green woods of

Mahabharata range in the South. A standout amongst the most essential components of this

spot is that it is warm in the winter and cool in the late spring. The region of Balthali Village

resort is cover with different verdure, bright rhododendron woods, and magnolia and Sal

trees.

This resort has quite recently elevated the living style of individuals as this resort has

furnished nearby individuals with numerous open doors. The whole rural segment has been

produced with the assistance of this resort. The resort in Balthali makes work opportunity,

mindfulness in individuals, and wellspring of salary for the nearby individuals. The natural

vegetation, drain, poultry cultivate has been in great used as these items are utilized well by

the resorts.
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Purpose of the research

The key reason for this exploration venture is to find the assortment of methods of

monetary exercises that managed the town region in Balthali. Particularly the exploration

went for upgrading the substance of the course "Generation and Price Management" by

adapting more about the items, evaluating methodologies and estimating issues on regions

like Organic Vegetation, Poultry cultivating, Home stay Tourism and Milk creation. We did

our best to gather point by point data in the previously mentioned regions and the town in

general by going by those regions and talking the related individuals.

Similar to an administration understudy, we have to think about how individuals are

overseeing for their survival, in what the villagers are high required for their livings and how

are they taking care of each issues and circumstance that they need to confront in the town, so

the principle motivation behind our outing is to think about every one of those data

furthermore to prescribe or give them proposal to get through those issues and circumstances.

Our real work for this is to gather about the historical backdrop of Balthali town first

to look at the circumstance, way of life and improvement, then and now. The other

motivation behind this outing is to do look into work on the different methods of monetary

exercises that support the town group in Balthali town. We needed to do investigate deal with

particular 4 fundamental territories they are: natural vegetation, poultry cultivating, and home

stay tourism and drain creation. On every territory, we needed to gather detail data on regions

like what are the items they are assembling, how are the generation action oversaw, who are

the general population required underway process, how valuing is done on their item or

administrations. We ought to likewise gather data on in what premise they decide the

estimating for their items furthermore how showcase variance influences their item and value
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administration at Balthali town. Besides, we ought to likewise recognize what is the request

in the market for items and administrations that are create in town.

We are required to visit in each individual cultivating or development and meeting

with related individual about all the data that we have to know. The other motivation behind

this visit is to fabricate our relational abilities and in addition support our certain to approach

and investigate for the data with the related individual, as this will help every one of us in our

not so distant future.

Through our meetings we expected to discover the creation and estimating related

issues and advancements that occurred in recent years. We additionally set inquiries with a

reason to comprehend the way they have been dealing with the issues and the exercises the

resorts in Balthali are doing or contributing for further advancement of their town.

Figure 3 Meeting with the farmers

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Areas Covered in the research

The primary zones shrouded in the examination were:

Organic Vegetation
Poultry cultivating
Milk generation
Home stay tourism

Natural vegetation of cultivating is development of vegetables without the utilization

of any concoction manures, however with the substances that are actually happened, for

example, compost, bone dinner, green fertilizer, and so forth. Agriculturists of Balthali are

gradually changing their vegetation in technique into natural vegetation as individuals are

turning out to be increasingly wellbeing cognizant. After the creation of vegetables,

agriculturists move towards the market in the city early morning to offer their vegetables. A

large portion of the delivered vegetables are sold in the market and some of their vegetables

are devoured without anyone else's input, brought by the villagers furthermore by the resorts.

Poultry cultivating is a rural part identified with the raising of residential winged

animals like chicken and ducks with a motivation behind cultivating meat or eggs for

nourishment. Chicken in Poultry cultivating can be grouped into grill chicken and layers,

oven chicken are for meat and layers are for eggs. Balthali town additionally has various

poultry agriculturists raising quantities of chickens for meat and eggs.

Home stay is a famous type of cabin the vacationers or guests in a place of a

neighbourhood individual of a city or a town to which they are voyaging. The length of

remain in home stay can shift from one night to even a year in return for fiscal remuneration,

however in towns of Nepal Home stay is more often than not of one night to few days.

Balthali town is gradually picking home stay tourism and are wanting to keep one separate
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space for the guests. A few houses have as of now began actualizing the arrangement by

keeping a different space for the guests or the voyagers.

Other territory shrouded in the examination was drain creation. Numerous villagers in

Balthali town has likewise trained cows resembles bovines, goats, bison, and so on so as to

deliver drain and offer them for the resort and different villagers furthermore to offer it in the

city territories and to devour themselves. In these divisions our examination work is to think

about how they decide the cost of their items, how they gather drain furthermore in what sum

they purchase the items from the villagers furthermore the impediments and issues they

confront while providing those items in city ranges.

In addition, zone shrouded in the exploration is additionally the issues and

obstructions the business person and the agriculturists there in that town need to endure in

maintaining their organizations. The advancement of the Balthali town has definitely changed

to the much more improvement now, because of the resort and lodging foundation in that

towns furthermore advancement of the town in tourism part. Consequently, our exploration

work is additionally to discover part that the resort had played in the general advancement of

the economy and expectations for everyday comforts of nearby group and also infrastructural

improvement.
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Methodology

Primary Source

We utilized the overview strategy to gather information which with a specific end goal

to finish the exploration. We went by the places of different local people living in the Balthali

town. Arrangement of unstructured inquiries were likewise asked to local people which was

extremely useful in gathering subjective information.

Secondary Source

Different wellsprings of data were from web and articles which were additionally

helpful in social event data for the examination.

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Organic Farming

Around 70% of individuals in Balthali are include in rural cultivating, the vast

majority of them are senior individual or say old people groups as there no more youthful

individuals left in the town. Those young have gotten onto and have moved to city zones with

the end goal of contemplating or for working.

Natural vegetation is development of vegetation done by the villagers who are

included in agribusiness without utilizing any chemicals items and manures to develop those

vegetations. Every one of the villagers who develop the vegetations like potatoes, cabbages,

cauliflowers and different vegetables don't utilize the compound items and composts which

hurts the strength of the people, rather they utilize squander items from the cows resembles

dairy animals and wild oxen, and so forth for the better development of the vegetables. The

villagers in Balthali create clean vegetables in contrast with how the general population in

urban ranges deliver similar vegetables. In urban territories, individuals for the most part

utilize chemicals and composts keeping in mind the end goal to develop these items, these

sorts of utilized concoction and manures are the moderate toxic substances for people.

Every one of those developed vegetables are for the most part for their own particular

utilization for living though, a few people likewise have heaps of cultivating in the town with

the goal that they can likewise offer those items for the neighbourhood individuals there and

for offering it in city regions like Khopase and Banepa. These days, because of foundation of

numerous inns and visitor houses there have helped those agriculturists in the towns to offer

those items for them. The agriculturists who have developed loads of vegetables can offer

those items to the lodgings and visitor houses, this has helped those ranchers to pick up pay

source and has helped them to spur for developing more.

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The climatic condition in Balthali towns is likewise reasonable for oranges

cultivating, so individuals there have additionally developed oranges in many homes. Every

one of those oranges cultivating are likewise accomplished for offering reason, those oranges

in winter seasons are sold in adjacent city like Banepa, khopase, Dhulikhel and even those

oranges are sent to Kathmandu city for offering reason.

Figure 4 Orange Farming

Correspondingly, a few villagers in Balthali town has likewise done mushroom

cultivating for their great expectation for everyday comforts, as said by Ram siwakoti, one of

the villagers in Balthali who is been doing this cultivating since most recent 2 years, the

expenses are higher than different vegetables so they can gain a decent sum from it. Those

mushrooms are sent in city territories for the most part in Kathmandu for offering reason

though they have two distinctive estimating for the nearby individuals and for city ranges

where the cost for the neighbourhood individuals is by one means or another slightest than

for the city regions.

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There are heaps of issues for agriculturists who have been doing natural cultivating

and different developments. For natural vegetations, there is the need of cows' waste items as

opposed to utilizing distinctive compound manures. In this way, when the dairy cattle's waste

items are inaccessible, ranchers need to decide for keeping those substance manures to

develop the vegetation or else all the work they have done will go on a waste as the

vegetation won't be that useful for the utilization. The real issues that the agriculturists are

confronting in Balthali town are that there is no market to offer those items that they have

created. They are not ready to offer large portions of their items to the nearby individuals as

everybody of them has their own particular cultivating and for offering those items in the city

territories like Khopase and Banepa, and so forth they are not ready to transport those items

in city zones on account of absence of good streets in the town. Because of these issues the

agriculturists there would prefer not to develop more vegetation in that town and a

considerable lot of them are developing only for their own particular utilization.

Some of the vegetables that they cultivate are as follows:

Potato

Cauliflower

Spinach

Potato

Corn

Problems

Price dominated by sellers

Only some farmers use natural pesticides

No reliable source of income.

They dont have easy transportation service.

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Limited to grow seasonal vegetables.

Recommendations

Creating a union to set the price

Quality check methods to be implemented

The crops should be organic certifies to support their value.

Deciding new methods of vegetation and using the natural methods of fertilizing.

Sell products using differentiated packaging. That could be a way to earn in off-

seasons.
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Poultry Farming

Figure 5 Poultry Farming

Poultry cultivating is the raising of tamed winged animals, for example, chickens,

ducks, turkeys and geese with the end goal of cultivating meat or eggs for nourishment.

Poultry are cultivated in extraordinary numbers with chickens being the most various.

More than 50 billion chickens are raised every year as a wellspring of sustenance, for both

their meat and their eggs. Chickens raised for eggs are normally called layers while

chickens raised for meat are regularly called grills. In the US, the national association

administering poultry creation is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In the UK, the

national association is the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).

("Performance Records of Hy-Line Grey")

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The growth of poultry farming in the country has been significant in the past few

decades. This type of farming has been commercialized in the market and a larger number

of people are attracted towards it. This type of farming sees a high potential to generate

revenues. Although, the revenues come with a very high initial investment cost, the returns

if the farm is run properly is very high.

Meat chickens, generally called ovens, are floor-raised on litter, for example, wood

shavings, nut shells, and rice bodies, inside in atmosphere controlled lodging. Under

advanced cultivating techniques, meat chickens raised inside achieve butcher weight at 5

to 9 weeks of age. The main week of chicken's life they can grow 300 percent of their

body measure, a nine-week-old chicken can normal more than 9 pounds in body weight.

At nine weeks a hen will normal around 7 pounds and a chicken will weigh around 12

pounds, having a nine-pound normal.

Grills are not brought up in enclosures. They are brought up in expansive, open

structures known as develop out houses. A rancher gets the winged animals from the

incubation facility at one-day old. A develop out comprises of 5 to 9 weeks concurring on

how enormous the murder plant needs the chickens to be. These houses are outfitted with

mechanical frameworks to convey sustain and water to the winged animals. They have

ventilation frameworks and warmers that capacity as required. The floor of the house is

secured with bedding material comprising of wood chips, rice structures, or nut shells.

Now and again, they can be developed over dry litter or fertilizer. Since dry sheet material

keeps up rush wellbeing, most grow out houses have encased watering frameworks

("areola consumers") which lessen spillage. (Deeb and Shlosberg)

Keeping winged animals inside a house shields them from predators, for example,

sells and foxes. A few houses are furnished with drapery dividers, which can be moved up

in great climate to concede common light and natural air. Most develop out houses worked
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as of late's component "burrow ventilation," in which a bank of fans draws outside air

through the house.

A portion of the family's principle occupation is poultry cultivating where every

family had about more than 300 chicks, the underlying speculation to acquire that chicks

was 1.5 lakhs, their additional cost would be the things required for the chicks survival

like light, power, nourishment, drugs, social insurance, cleaning costs and so forth they

have to make the place sterile . We came to realize that the villagers don't keep the infant

chicks in a square room rather they seal the edges keeping them from heaping up in a

corner. Adjust temperature is extremely important to keep the chicks alive, as they don't

have a propelled innovation things, individuals hang lights close to the ground to keep the

chicks warm. They offer around 8-9 cartons for every day when the chickens are of age.

The life expectance is around 12 to year and a half.

Pricing

The villagers keep an eye on the cost pervasive on the present market and give 2-3

rupee not as much as what is being offered in the market. This is to guarantee that the item

offer in the market. Evaluating assumes a noteworthy part in the offer of any item. There

are a few monsters in the nation creating an expansive amount of eggs in a day. In this

way, picking up economies of scale in their item. Subsequently forward they acquire lesser

cost than these little scale ranchers and still make an immense measure of benefit. The

plants that they are utilizing are all around outfitted with every one of the assets to keep

the chickens sound and have appropriate environment for them to develop. The ranchers

are abused by alternate providers, the venders from Kathmandu or Banepa include the

overall revenue, bundle the item in containers and supply it to the general population.

Normal cost of Chicken egg is 360 for every case.

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Problem

There are a ton of issues confronted by these agriculturists. The venture that they

have to give chickens the best environment costs a ton of cash furthermore their ordinary

costs include. Consequently with no appropriate wellspring of wage, it is extremely

troublesome for these ranchers to access speculation. They either take it from their

relatives or little banks and corporative. They likewise utilize old and conventional

strategies that has a high deviation in both the life of the chicken furthermore the amount

of eggs delivered. Furthermore, to include upon, in the event that they don't offer, there is

no normal quantifiable profit.

Valuing assumes a noteworthy part in the offer of any item. There are a few

mammoths in the nation delivering a vast amount of eggs in a day. Accordingly, picking

up economies of scale in their item. Thus forward they cause lesser cost than these little

scale agriculturists and still make an immense measure of benefit.

There are additionally no vets in the region if the chickens have any sicknesses.

Furthermore to add to the way that the infections are effectively transferable under such

conditions, they confront a great deal of trouble in managing and keeping up the plant

itself. They likewise confront issues in keeping up these offices as there are no young

people in the region. Along these lines, they need maintainable and inventive thoughts.

Recommendations

A few suggestions for poultry farming in Balthali are as follows:

Village could approach banks and government for advance at lower loan fee
People can be educated by showing them through visual guides recordings, and so on.
Workshops ought to be frequently led and there ought to be a mindfulness program

with respect to how to utilize and handle these homesteads

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Show the poultry ranchers the new procedures of new innovation utilized with the goal

that they can have a go at utilizing substitute things if not the genuine ones
Establishment of neighbourhood vet
Villagers ought to gather eggs from each house every morning and offer it in expansive

adds up to spare transportation cost.

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Home Stay Tourism

Homestay is a popular form of accommodation whereby visitors stay in a house or

apartment of a local of the city to which they are traveling. The length of stay can vary

from one night to even a year and can be for free, in exchange for monetary compensation,

in exchange for a stay at the guest's property either simultaneously or at another time, or in

exchange for help on the host's property. It is sometimes used by people who wish to

improve their language skills, immerse in a particular culture, or become familiar with the

local lifestyle. Longer term homestays are popular with students that are participating in

study abroad programs.

For the hosts, the homestay provides cultural exchange opportunities, or in cases

where compensation is provided, hosts may receive monetary compensation and/or help

on their property. In 2008, a study noted that homestays benefited tourism in Malaysia.

(Rivers)

Pros of Homestay

Cost

One of most alluring variables of homestays is the cost. Homestays can now and

again be the less expensive alternative since they can incorporate suppers, clothing offices,

and perhaps some light cleaning administrations in the cost for food and lodging. You

might be furnished with an ensured number of suppers every day.

Cultural Immersion

By living with local people as opposed to different explorers, homestays can give a

more true social experience. Contingent upon the level of inclusion that you have with

your receiving family, a homestay can show a chance to encounter the substances of day

by day life in the new nation.

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Language Skills

Living with a homestay will compel you to utilize the dialect with local speakers in

a low-stakes setting. Your embraced family can help you rehearse your dialect abilities,

which will make investigating the city and meeting new individuals a less overwhelming

assignment.

A Home Away from Home

With family and companions in an inaccessible time zone, a homestay family can

serve as an awesome emotionally supportive network and can be an astounding asset in

your critical crossroads. In the event that you permit yourself to create associations with

your hosts, you can open yourself up to associations abroad.

Cons of Homestay

Rules

Living in a homestay, you should regard the standards and desires set by your

hosts. This can incorporate a time limitation, manages about visitors, checking-in, and so

forth. Once in a while this sort of environment isn't perfect for youthful explorers hoping

to find the world in their own particular manners.

Lack of Allies

In the event that you pick to live in a homestay, you may get yourself detached

from different voyagers, and it could feel somewhat estranging being the token outsider in

your own particular home far from home. Investigating your new surroundings with other

people who are in the same unpracticed vessel can be both encouraging and energizing, a

procedure which can be made progressively while living with a homestay family.

Feeling Dependent

For a few people, a homestay may not be the best individual space to be 100%
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yourself. You can feel clumsy contingent upon your hosts. Despite the fact that she was

grateful for the friendliness of her host. Albeit most has will attempt their best to make you

feel welcome, the sentiment being a visitor in somebody's home can here and there can be

hard to overcome.

Home remain in Balthali began around 5 years prior. This idea of tourism was

presented in 2011, denoting the introduction of the tourism year in the nation. The idea

was advancement to give the best settlement offices to the sightseers, likewise mirroring

the social and ethical assorted qualities of the nation. The inns in Balthali give chances to

local people to oblige voyagers, for additional salary. They outsource their rooms to local

people, in light of the fact that the stream of voyagers has altogether expanded.

Problems

Some problems faced are:

Lack of adequate facilities

The homestay was unsatisfactory leading to decrease in the popularity
Tourists prefer more to stay in those resorts rather than use homestay for

accommodation.
There is still a danger for earthquake throughout the nation.
Traditional hotels and toilets lead to immense problems for the tourists.

Recommendations

Be that as it may, a homestay business is more entangled contrasted with different

organizations taking into account the necessities of traveler. Firstly, a receiving family

ought to have the capacity to successfully manage their visitor so he will have a decent

ordeal regardless of being far from home. A decent host ought to have the capacity to

make his visitor feel like he is a part of the entire family. Since the worldwide visitor is

paying a decent measure of cash to remain in your place, it is basic that you ought to give

him extraordinary homestay benefit. For example, if your administrations incorporate

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boarding and dinners, guarantee that you can give all these to your visitor with greatness.

This is vital for you as a host with the goal that you can build up a decent notoriety

regardless of the possibility that you are simply beginning in the business.

In a homestay business, the most fundamental piece of business administration is

guaranteeing the welfare of the visitor. A host must observe that each remote visitor would

just need to convey home magnificent encounters to his home, and you, as his receiving

family, would enormously add to his important between social presentations.

Figure 6 Homestay at Balthali

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Dairy Farming

Figure 7 Milk production at Balthali

Dairy cultivating is a class of agribusiness for long haul generation of drain, which is

handled for possible offer of a dairy item. Albeit any well evolved creature can deliver drain,

business dairy ranches are commonly one-animal categories ventures. In created nations,

dairy cultivates commonly comprise of high delivering dairy cows. Different species utilized

as a part of business dairy cultivating incorporate goats, sheep, and camels. In Italy, jackass

dairies are developing in prevalence to create an option drain hotspot for human newborn

children.

Dairy cultivating has been a piece of horticulture for a huge number of years.

Verifiably it has been one a player in little, differing ranches. In the most recent century or

so bigger homesteads doing just dairy creation have developed. Substantial scale dairy

cultivating is just reasonable where either a lot of drain is required for creation of more
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sturdy dairy items, for example, cheddar, spread, and so forth or there is a generous market

of individuals with money to purchase drain, however no cows of their own.

Brought together dairy cultivating as we comprehend it fundamentally created

around towns and urban communities, where occupants were not able have cows of their

own because of an absence of eating area. Close to the town, agriculturists could profit as

an afterthought by having extra creatures and offering the drain around the local area. The

dairy ranchers would fill barrels with drain in the morning and put up it for sale to the

public on a wagon.

For most groups, draining occurred inside twice per day, in an animal dwelling

place with the cows tied by the neck with ropes or held set up by stanchions. Nourishing

could happen all the while with draining in the stable, albeit most dairy cows were fed

amid the day between milking's.

The People of Balthali likewise utilize dairy cultivating as their sauce of salary.

They have a union which gathers all the drain and gives then their cost of the drain in view

of their fat.

Problems

Some Problems faced in milk production are:

The price is not fixed

The suppliers are being exploited
Farmers dont know about the technologies to ensure quality and quantity of milk.

Thus, there is a lot of deviation.

The farmers dont have knowledge about the fat level.
Lack of vets and experts in the area
No waste management
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Suggestions

Consult the Experts

Regardless of the possibility that you experienced childhood with a dairy and

figured out how to sustain and drain bovines from your folks and grandparents it is

imperative to counsel specialists in the dairy business as you build up your strategy for

success and plan your administration framework. Other dairy makers are extraordinary

assets. Go to handle days and open houses on dairy cultivates in your general vicinity and

different parts of the state or nation. At the point when going to different ranches discover

what has functioned admirably on those homesteads and what has not worked, but rather

remember that since something dealt with one ranch does not mean it will work for you on

your homestead. Notwithstanding agriculturists, converse with veterinarians, nutritionists,

agronomists, financiers, augmentation teachers, and others that can give alternate points of

view on administration of your dairy.

Create a Waste Management Plan

Dairy cows deliver a considerable measure of compost. While this excrement is

regularly alluded to as waste, if oversaw and utilized appropriately it can be an incredible

asset on the ranch. Excrement administration will be attached nearly to your editing and

encouraging system. In the event that you can utilize a twofold editing framework on your

ranch it won't just permit you to deliver more sustain yet will likewise permit you to apply

more excrement to your property. Contrasting options to direct land use of excrement

incorporate treating the soil and anaerobic processing of fertilizer, while these alternatives

may give extra income and different advantages to your dairy they will likewise build the

capital speculation required to kick your dairy off.

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Dairy Farming is a Biological System

The dairy farm is reliant on the bovine's capacity to carry on with a sound life,

create drain, and have calves that can turn into the up and coming era of the homestead.

Dairy cultivating requires point by point programs for group wellbeing, multiplication and

calf mind notwithstanding the nourishment and monetary perspectives on the ranch.

Working with your veterinarian, hereditary qualities delegates and expansion specialists

can help you create exhaustive ranch arrangements to make a positive future.

One Size Does Not Fit All

All dairy farms are different based on the producers wishes, resource

requirements, market needs and more. Multiple systems exist and can be profitable. Some

producers contract out their replacements to a custom heifer raiser while others diversify

by selling crops, raising steers or creating a home-bottling plant.

Focus on supplementary products

They always have the option to produce bi-products of milk. For example: Cheese,

ghee, Etc. This will diversify their product portfolio and also it will generate additional

income for the farmers. Henceforth, the quality of life and living standards of the people

living in the area will significantly increase.

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Mushroom Farming

Figure 8: Mushroom farming at Balthali village

A mushroom (or toadstool) is the beefy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a growth,

commonly delivered over the ground on soil or on its sustenance source.

The standard for the name "mushroom" is the developed white catch mushroom,

Agaricusbisporus; thus "mushroom" is regularly connected to those parasites

(Basidiomycota, Agaricomycetes) that have a stem (stipe), a top (pileus), and gills

(lamellae, sing. lamella) on the underside of the top. These gills deliver tiny spores that

help the organism spread over the ground or its tenant surface.

"Mushroom" depicts an assortment of gilled organisms, with or without stems, and

the term is utilized significantly more by and large, to portray both the plump fruiting

collections of some Ascomycota and the woody or weathered fruiting groups of some

Basidiomycota, contingent on the setting of the word.

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Frames veering off from the standard morphology as a rule have more particular

names, for example, "bolete", "puffball", "stinkhorn", and "morel", and gilled mushrooms

themselves are frequently called "agarics" in reference to their closeness to Agaricus or

their request Agaricales. By expansion, the expression "mushroom" can likewise assign

the whole growth when in culture; the thallus (called a mycelium) of animal varieties

shaping the fruiting bodies called mushrooms; or the species itself.

Mushroom cultivating in Nepal is getting mainstream among Nepali agriculturists.

Mushroom has been utilized by man from time immemorial. In Nepal, mushroom has been

utilized as sustenance and pharmaceutical for quite a while. The development by ranchers

however is later and is growing gradually. The wild assortments with restorative properties

are likewise turning out to be gradually referred to different nations too. There are couple

of wild types of restorative significance and high esteem which are traded to different

nations. This however is in little scale, with no institutional structure.

Presently there are numerous business mushroom cultivate Nepal that create

diverse verity of mushrooms. Couple of years prior, wild mushroom has been gathered and

acknowledged (eating) socially and socially by certain ethnic gatherings. No one

considered cultivating it however now days because of urbanization and mindfulness it's

another wellspring of salary. Mushrooms are eatable organism we are developing

mushrooms inside and supply in the business sectors. Ranchers can develop mushroom

year-round in indigenous habitat diverse assortment like Shitake, shellfish, red mushroom

in Nepal. There are numerous medical advantages of mushroom like aversion of

malignancy, diabetes and tumors. It keeps insusceptible framework solid and solid and

support heart wellbeing also. (agriculture in nepal)

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Pros

Little Space

Developing mushrooms needn't bother with a great deal of land or space; exercises

should be possible in constrained space yet at the same time yield a ton. It is especially

fantastic this is one of those endeavors. From anyplace in your back yard to your front

garden, on tree husks, on dividers, to the littlest size zone, mushrooms don't require a great

deal of space to develop.

Short cultivation period.

By and large, it goes up against normal 3 weeks to the principal

collect of mushrooms. On the off chance that however developing them inside utilizing

propelled innovation, they set aside a short opportunity to develop and be prepared for

development between 1-14 days most extreme relying upon the sort. Shellfish and Oak

mushrooms for example take 1-4 days just to develop. Little utilization of manure. They

don't require added substances, for example, manure or bug spray to upgrade development

or battle sicknesses.

Simple process

Mushroom developing is basic and doesn't require a considerable measure of

mastery and concentrated care. The specialty of mushroom developing can be aced rapidly

and effectively when contrasted with other agrarian items or plants.

Gainfulness and rate of return.

Mushroom developing requires dim and every so often some light conditions, yet

above all a steady supply of water and moistness. Along these lines a temperature of

underneath 25 degrees and stickiness levels over 50 degrees must be kept up in the

developing zone/space for best outcomes, this is exceptionally basic as temperatures will
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decide the size and nature of yields.

As a pre imperative, the stems must be showered with water no less than three

times each day relying upon the warmth and moistness to keep them cool, yet above all,

the stems must be infused with water each following 10-14 days to keep them solid and

maintain a strategic distance from them drying endlessly!

Along these lines the most essential segment separated from the work is the steady

supply of water to the stems and keeping great room temperatures.

Another basic indicate note is that mushrooms are profoundly perishable,

subsequently protection implies like solidifying or sun drying are another essential. Along

these lines, a little plant can create adequate benefits furthermore brisk rate of profitability.

Cons

Market

While mushrooms are in fact not vegetables, they are regularly delegated such and

attributable to a low level of discretionary cash flow. In any case, request still overwhelms

the supply and with an expanding white collar class, it is normal that interest for

mushrooms will proceed.

Perishability

Mushrooms are exceedingly perishable and should be expended quick or

appropriately protected promptly after reap; either through drying them or solidifying.

For the propelled thinking rancher. A contrasting option to drying is to have

refrigeration offices to keep them crisp as a few purchasers including trade markets incline

toward new to dried mushrooms.

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Water

Mushrooms require consistent supply of water and a damp faintly lit environment

to develop positively. We in this way prescribe having an underground water tank to

guarantee steady supply of water.

Edible types

Recognizing and devouring just the palatable sorts is a test, noxious sort's with

unsafe poisons are the most widely recognized and can undoubtedly be confused for

eatable ones, however they can be distinguished by their splendid hues.

Disease

The most widely recognized reason for illnesses influencing mushrooms is because of

the moist conditions inside which they are developed. This moist environment is likewise

helpful for different pathogens and vermin. On the off chance that packaging soil is not

purified, this disease happens quickly and can taint the whole developing room, which then

must be cooked out to wipe out the shape. Another illness is Green shape. Most extreme

cleanliness is suggested in both occasions.

Suggestions

Promote marketing of mushroom along with production. The consumers should be

made aware about different kinds of mushroom, their nutritional and medicinal values

to create demand of mushroom.

Mushroom farming can be good opportunity for farmers to earn decent income.
Areas around Kathmandu valley also have good climatic condition for mushroom

farming.
With more research, there is possibility to produce many high value mushrooms, from

which local people can be benefited economically.

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Since these areas are near to cities, market access will not be problem. Most areas also

have motor roads, which makes transportation easier.

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Terrace Farming

Figure 9 Terrace Farming at Balthali village

In agribusiness, a porch is a bit of inclined plane that has been cut into a

progression of progressively subsiding level surfaces or stages, which take after strides,

for the motivations behind more viable cultivating. This kind of finishing, in this way, is

called terracing. Graduated patio steps are normally used to cultivate on sloping or rugged

landscape. Terraced fields diminish both disintegration and surface spillover, and might be

utilized to bolster developing products that require water system, for example, rice. The

Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras have been assigned as an UNESCO World

Heritage Site due to the centrality of this technique.

Terraced paddy fields are utilized generally as a part of rice, wheat and grain

cultivating in east, south, and Southeast Asia, and additionally different spots. Drier-

atmosphere patio cultivating is basic all through the Mediterranean Basin, e.g., in
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Cadaqus, Catalonia, where they were utilized for vineyards, olive trees, stopper oak, and

so forth, on Mallorca, and in Cinque Terre, Italy.

Patio cultivating has many favorable circumstances. It permits the utilization of

land that would not regularly have the capacity to be utilized utilizing customary

cultivating techniques. It will decrease disintegration by keeping overwhelming

precipitation from picking up force as it keeps running down the incline. It will diminish

flooding in the valleys for a similar reason. There are a few drawbacks to this however. By

evacuating trees that have profound roots regular holding dividers are killed. Some sort of

profound root framework must stay in place to counteract gigantic mud slides. It likewise

constrains the sorts of harvests that can be developed if down in regions of high

precipitation.

Pros

- can handle steeper slopes

- Better erosion control since ground is now flat

- More formal design which might fit the rest of the garden better

- Steps may be easier to walk up the hill?

Cons

- More expensive

- Less natural looking

- Natural slope shows off vegetation better

- No steps - easier to move wheel barrow up the hill

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Conclusion

Through this examination, we became more acquainted with how an appropriate

research is directed, and what viewpoints come into thought to know different data about

certain point. In this examination, we did a point by point look into on the different financial

exercises done by the nearby individuals of Balthali town, and what were the issues and

difficulties confronted by the general population on those angles and what they could do to

conquer those particular issues keeping in mind the end goal to accomplish ideal

improvement in the town.

Balthali Village is a delightful goal comprising with parts and heaps of potential. Each

part of this town has a decent extension in the market in the event that they consider every

one of these things truly and execute them as needs be. On the off chance that they do this

then they have a brilliant future with bunches of conservative and infrastructural

advancements.
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Annex: Questionnaire for the Field Visit

1. Could you please tell us what do you do?

2. What are your methods of earning for your family?

3. What do you think is the condition of your area in Balthali?

4. What is the situation to work in Balthali regarding your field?

5. How do you feel your field is compared to another relative field?

6. How harmful is not having resources and infrastructure not around you?

7. What could be done to ease out the procedure of work?

8. What is the population of the village?

9. How do you think the problems of the local can be solved?

10. Which infrastructure matter the most when you work in your own field?

11. What is the distribution of age group in your village?

12. What is the reason for a lot of people migrating away from the village areas?

13. Would you migrate away if given a choice to migrate now?

14. What changes should be made I the working procedure to yield better results?

15. Are people energetic enough to take their own initiation?