A Reliable Resource Person of the Community

Paile Gharti, aged 53, is a permanent resident of Ward No. 2, Syala, of Aathbiskot Municipality. He has a family of five, including his wife, two sons, and one daughter. He is a farmer by profession. He mainly cultivates maize, wheat, potatoes, and some fruits, and also raises chickens, cows, and horses.

As his special interest was in fruit farming, he had been growing various fruits in his house, like local peach, plum, persimmon, lemon, pomelo, and Sichuan pepper. He had a great passion for plant propagation. As a result, he used to propagate plants by seeds and grafting, even though he did not have proper knowledge and skills related to plant propagation. However, his efforts were not always successful.

According to the decision of the community people, seeing his great interest in fruit cultivation, the project selected Gharti as a nursery person for establishing a multipurpose nursery producing vegetable seeds and seedlings, fruit saplings, and fodder. The project provided him with nursery management training and also supported him in establishing the nursery. The project initially provided a 5-day training in nursery management. Based on what he learned in the training and with the additional technical and financial support of the project, he established a multipurpose nursery.

The project also helped him with two coil pipes for water management, various nursery tools, as well as different varieties of apple, avocado, blueberry, almond, persimmon, apricot, pear, cherry, pecan nut, grape, peach, and lime for the mother plant. He also collected the seeds of local peaches, walnuts, mail, and paiyu and sowed them in the nursery for the production of rootstocks. With the support of the project, the name of the nursery has been kept as Integrated Multi-Purpose Nursery and registered with the Cottage and Small Industries Office.

In the last fiscal year, he sold a total of Rs. 25,000 worth of lemon, Sichuan pepper, pomelo, and mandarin orange plants. As the fruits planted as mother plants have also started to bear fruit, he has planned to propagate plants by grafting scions of newly fruiting plants on the rootstocks growing in the nursery in the coming winter months. In the coming year, he plans to produce a total of 2,000 grafted saplings, including 150 walnuts, 400 Sichuan pepper, 200 lemons, 500 pears, 100 apricots, 100 cherry trees, 200 plums, 50 Amilo, 100 persimmons, and 100 almond trees.

In addition, he has been growing the saplings of fodders like blackberry and Tusaro through the cutting method. He has also been producing seeds of vegetables like greens, radish, carrot, coriander, chili, and onion.

He now has the necessary knowledge and skills related to nursery management, including fruit, fodder, and vegetable cultivation. As a result, community people call him for grafting, pruning, training, and other technical assistance related to the fruit cultivation. Moreover, his demand extends to other wards of the municipality. He was called to Ward No. 3 of Aathbiskot Municipality for grafting walnut trees as well.

In this way, he has succeeded in establishing himself as a reliable resource person in the community. He gives all the credit to the project for his success in running a multipurpose nursery and providing technical support to the people.

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