Surkhet, June 25 -- Shortly after the formation of the Karnali provincial government, the first Cabinet meeting held on February 18, 2018, announced an ambitious goal of transforming Karnali into an organic province.

Nearly two years later, on December 25, 2019, the second meeting of the Provincial Coordination Council formally endorsed the decision. As part of the campaign, Karnali hosted the First Karnali Organic Agriculture Conference in 2020 and spent nearly Rs160 million on programmes, including subsidies for transporting compost, subsidies on bio-pesticides, and support for establishing industries to produce and process organic fertilisers, compost, and biological pesticides through partnerships with cooperatives and the private se...