{"id":25057,"date":"2025-06-22T11:36:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T05:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=25057"},"modified":"2025-06-22T11:36:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T05:51:57","slug":"pesticide-free-vegetable-collection-center-in-paanchkhal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/pesticide-free-vegetable-collection-center-in-paanchkhal\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Pesticide-free\u2019 vegetable collection center in Paanchkhal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kavrepalanchok, June 22: An agricultural produce collection and market center has been established in Paanchkhal Municipality to collect pesticide-free vegetables.<\/p>\n<p>The center has been established to collect vegetables produced using only organic pesticides instead of chemical pesticides. An organization called Lovegreen Nepal and Paanchkhal Municipality have forged a partnership for the same with an investment of Rs. 2.5 million and Rs. 900,000 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Paanchkhal Mayor Mahesh Kharel said the center has been brought into operation to collect vegetables produced using Integrated Pest Management (IPM) technology. We have set a target to supply agricultural produce collected at the center to the capital Kathmandu after sorting, packaging and branding them.<\/p>\n<p>The center was jointly inaugurated by Mayor Kharel, Head of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in Nepal, Matsuzaki Mizuki and Lovegreen Nepal President Amira Dali on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The municipality is currently promoting organic farming under the campaign to create &#8216;Pesticide-Free Panchkhal&#8217;. The campaign has been supported since the past four years by the Environment-Friendly Integrated Sustainable Agriculture Development Project jointly run by the Municipal Office and Lovegreen Nepal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kavrepalanchok, June 22: An agricultural produce collection and market center has been established in Paanchkhal Municipality to collect pesticide-free vegetables. The center has been established to collect vegetables produced using only organic pesticides instead of chemical pesticides. An organization called Lovegreen Nepal and Paanchkhal Municipality have forged a partnership for the same with an investment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-main-news","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25057"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25059,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25057\/revisions\/25059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}