KARNALI, Jan 25: Karnali Province has generated a capital of Rs 3.24 billion from the export of goats.

BHAKTAPUR, Oct 26: In Bhaktapur's Sallaghari, traders have reduced the prices of chicken, sheep, goats and mountain goats brought for Dashain. The traders reduced the prices from today due to lower sales than expected.

KATHMANDU, Oct 16: Starting today, the Food Management and Trading Company will be selling goats and he-goats for Dashain.

KATHMANDU, Oct 7: The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) is going to examine the health of goats to be sold in the capital for the upcoming Dashain festival.

KATHMANDU, Sept 28: The Department of Livestock Services has conducted health examinations of goats in the Kathmandu valley. The department is checking the health of goats from 10 different places in the Valley.

KATHMANDU, Sept 27: The Department of Livestock Services is going to conduct a health examination of goats in the Kathmandu Valley from today. The department is going to conduct the health examination of goats at 10 different places in the Valley from today.

Dashain Aayo !

October 9, 2021 18:30 pm

KATHMANDU, Oct 9: With the onset of Dashain, the greatest festival of Hindus in Nepal, people have thronged the markets to purchase goats for the celebration. With

Sales of goats for Dashain begins

October 8, 2021 15:15 pm

KATHMANDU, Oct 8: Goats are being unloaded from a vehicle as the state owned company Nepal Food Management and Trading Company (FTMC) plans to start selling it from Saturda

KATHMANDU, Oct 3: About 70,000 goats are being prepared for sale in urban areas targeting the festival, according to the Department of Livestock Services. Preparations are being made to bring in goats from pocket areas to urban areas so that there is no shortage of meat during the Dashain and Tihar festivals.

KATHMANDU, Oct 19: State-owned Food Management and Trading Company (FMTC) has started selling goats at a fair price targeting the festival of Dashain.

KATHMANDU, Oct 19: The Food Management and Trading Company Limited (FMTCL) is selling live goats at Rs 560 per kilogram starting Monday from its office in Thapathali, Kathmandu.

KATHMANDU, Oct 2: Nepal will become self-reliant in goats and buffaloes in two years, according to Minister for Agriculture and Livestock Development Chakrapani Khanal.

KATHMANDU, Sept 30: State-owned Food Management and Trading Company (FMTC) is likely to start selling goats for Dashain festival from Monday and mountain goats from Tuesday.

Goat price goes up as Dashain nears

September 29, 2019 08:03 am

SINDHULI, Sept 29: The price of goats has dramatically gone up as Dashain festival nears. Consumers say that the price of live goats has been unnecessarily raised by traders because of Dashain festival.

Sheep and mountain goats booked at farm

September 22, 2019 08:37 am

MYAGDI, Sept 22: Pashupati Silwal, a trader from Kathmandu, reached Upper Mustang for fetching sheep and mountain goats for Dashain, the great festival of Nepalis that is just round the corner.

81,000 goats ready for Dashain

September 10, 2019 10:49 am

BIRATNAGAR, Sept 10: Most of the farmers in Belbari of Morang are involved in goat farming through local cooperative organization. Each of the goat farmers have 2 to 13 goats ready to be sold for Dashain. The farmers have readied over 81,000 goats for sale.

BHAIRAHAWA, May 29: Local farmers have breathed a sigh of relief after the government tightened imports of livestock like goats and sheep from India.

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KATHMANDU, Oct 12: The National Food Corporation (NFC) has fixed the prices for live goats and mountain goats at Rs 710 and Rs 510 per kg respectively.

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KATHMANDU, Oct 11: As Dashain Festival is approaching nearer, Nepal Food Corporation (NFC) is starting the sale of goats and Himalayan goats at subsidized rates from Friday.

KATHMANDU, Sept 15: The state-run Nepal Food Corporation (NFC) is planning to bring 2,000 goats and mountain goats from various parts of the country to the capital for the Dashain festival.

KHOTANG, June26: Diktel Rupakot Majhuwagadhi Municipality-8, Dorpachiuridanda has distributed goats to disabled people from poor family background to help them become financially independent.

GULMI, April 19: Minister for Labour and Employment, Gokarna Bista, said the government wants to move forward with a new approach to achieve 'prosperity with social justice'.

ACHHAM, April 7: A ten-month-old toddler died after being struck by lightning in Chaurpati Rural Municipality-3 in the district on Friday night.

RASUWA, Sept 24: Nepal has imported only 55 sheep and mountain goats from the northern Rasuwagadhi border point this year. The import has dropped in comparison to the previous year as the price of livestock has gone up and the sheep and mountain goats are consumed in Tibet itself.

MYAGDI, Sept 12: Mountainous district Mustang in the western Nepal will supply at least 25,000 sheep and mountain goats to different markets of the country during the upcoming Dashain festival.

KATHMANDU, Sept 8: Nepal Food Corporation (NFC) has set aside Rs 332 million for the purchase of goats and mountain goats for the Dashain festival.

KATHMANDU, August 9: A parliamentary investigation has revealed that Nepali women are “being sold like goats” in Gulf countries after being taken to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Kuwait through illegal channels.

MUSTANG, Nov 2: For the Tihar celebrations, the country received a supply of 5,000 mountain goats from Mustang as compared to 21,000 during the Bada Dashain festival.

BAITADI, Oct 10: Over 800 goats and buffaloes were sacrificed in Ningalashaini Bhagawati Temple at Dehimandau and Melauli Bhagawati Temple at Melauli in Baitadi district on the occasion of Maha-Astami, the eight day of the 10-day long Bada Dashain festival.

NFC starts selling goats

October 3, 2016 00:10 am

KATHMANDU, Oct 3: Nepal Food Corporation (NFC) has started selling goats for the Dashain festival in Kathmandu from Sunday.

32,000 goats being imported from India

September 27, 2016 00:10 am

KATHMANDU, Sept 27: Livestock traders have initiated the process to import 32,000 goats from India for the Dashain festival.

KATHMANDU, Sept 7: Nepal Food Corporation (NFC), Nepal Livestock Traders Association and other retail entrepreneurs have started bringing goats, he-goats and mountain goats into the market on the occasion Dashain festival.

MUGU, July 18: A herdsman along with his 200 goats have gone missing in a rainfall-triggered landslide occurred in a forest at Chimath, Magri-1 in the district.

BHIMDUTTANAGAR, June 21: As many as 20 locals at Jhalaripipaladi Municipality of Kanchanpur district have fallen ill after consuming a billy goat's meat.