Kaligandaki Rural Municipality of Syangja has sold marigold flowers worth Rs. 1.5 million in Tihar festival this year.
The rural municipality has collected flowers produced by farmers within the rural municipality and supplied them to various markets of the district as well as Palpa, Kaski, Rupandehi and other districts.
The rural municipality has collected and sold marigolds produced by three schools and 17 farmers of the rural municipality who have been producing flowers commercially in the different markets.
Chairman of the rural municipality Khim Bahadur Thapa said around 15,000 garlands and 2,000 kilos of flowers produced by the farmers of Kaligandaki Rural Municipality were sold during Tihar festival.
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