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Jumla hosts food festival

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JUMLA, April 24: A ´Food Festival-2070 BS´ has begun in Jumla today on the occasion of the Seventh Democracy Day, for the first time in Karnali zone.



Different food items prepared from local crops including bean, soybean, millet and buck wheat will be put on display for protection, promotion and marketization of local and indigenous crops of Karnali, its production, availability and to make local farmers´ access to it. [break]



Similarly, other local food items—cake and momo prepared from millet, potato chips, herbal tea, rice prepared from Jumli Marshy rice species, jam and jelly prepared from apple, Newari food items, chicken sausage, pizza, homeopathic jeevan jal and among others, are put on display.



Coordinator of the Festival Organizing Committee, Senior Agriculture Development Officer Kamalesh Tiwari, said that the Festival is organised with an objective of increasing income through business of different food items by protecting and promoting different food crops and encouraging local farmers to involve in production of local crops.



There are 60 stalls and 14 cultural groups registered for the festival.



A total of Rs. 316,500 has been collected for the three-day Festival, according to the Finance Collection Sub-Committee.



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