The project will run until November 2024, and will provide financial and technical support towards services and innovation for agri-businesses in Province 1.

Hotels and restaurants are still shuttered, resulting in a massive drop in meat demand, farmers say.

Export revenues swelled by 15.46 percent mainly due to a rise in shipments of cardamom, tea and medicinal and aromatic plants.

The local administration has removed all Covid-related requirements including test report and quarantine for visitors.

The 15 associations say that agricultural entrepreneurs’ investment would be at risk and turn them into labourers and there is no guarantee additional employment will be generated.

Activists and experts say that when elections approach, market monitoring gets lax as political parties want to collect donations for election funds. It will get worse as polls near, they say.

More than 700 freight trucks enter Nepal daily through Bhairahawa, making it the country's second busiest transit point.

Ncell believes that the greenery around Ring Road will contribute towards an improved environmental quality across the community.

Both the government and the sugar mills are refusing to disclose the details of the payments made so far, farmers say.

Carriers are receiving around 7,000 passengers daily, down from 8,735 before the pandemic, officials say.

Foreign investors need to bring 70 percent of their proposed investment before beginning operations, and the rest in the next two years.

As per the Nepal Telecommunications Authority, 80 percent of Nepalis have access to broadband.

1.10 million international flyers passed through Kathmandu in 2020, down 73 percent from the previous year.

After not getting enough applications from smaller businesses for the subsidised loan facility, it invites more larger enterprises to ask for the loans from the Rs200 billion

Hotels and restaurants say they have slashed prices by as much as 50 percent but the perception that Thamel is only for tourists keeps potential domestic customers away, they say.

The runway will be lengthened to 2,500 metres, enabling it to handle jets like the Airbus A320 and the Boeing 737.

The construction of a cross-border economic zone in the far west will help industrialisation, insiders say.

Traders contend that prices are not coming down due to a jump in demand in the international market.

The facility is envisaged to become the gateway to the international pilgrimage destination of Lumbini.

According to the Department of Customs, exports made up only 7.5 percent of the country's total trade in the last fiscal year.