District Mustang has a high potential for apple cultivation. Each and every household has some apple trees. however, farmers are unable to divert their land to apple orchards because they can not transport the fruit to the markets in Pokhara and beyond. Mr. Karna Bahadur Thakali, an innovative farmer in Marpha, says that the 75 trees he owns couple produce 8250kg of apple. last year he transported for tonnes(50%) using his own four house and earned rs.50000. If proper accessibility were developed, he and his friends would be able to sell 75% of their production and earn more money.road accessibility is needed because the production pockets are located in Pakho, only a few farmers have converted low and into apple orchards. If accessibility were imported, farmers would use the lowland area for an apple orchard and import the needed cereal grain.The average net output per hectare from cereal grain 2700kg, with a value of about 16900 while from apple the 30,500 kg produced would fetch rs.100,000 in local markets and 2,00,000 in outside markets.
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