{"id":55769,"date":"2026-09-29T14:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T08:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=55769"},"modified":"2026-09-29T14:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T08:31:12","slug":"trainee-to-entrepreneur-floriculture-drives-sushila-to-self-sufficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/trainee-to-entrepreneur-floriculture-drives-sushila-to-self-sufficiency\/","title":{"rendered":"Trainee to entrepreneur, floriculture drives Sushila to self-sufficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Dhangadhi, Sept 29: A floriculture training provided by the Dhangadhi Sub-metropolis has proved to be a turning point in the life of Sushila Bista of Matayari of Dhangadhi- 6.<\/p>\n<p>Once a trainee in floriculture, Sushila has now become an employer, providing jobs to 11 local people. Over the years, her investment in the nursery business has grown to Rs 5 million from an initial capital of Rs 500,000.<\/p>\n<p>Her Bandoli Nursery stretches to two bigha of leased land and she generates an annual turnover of around Rs 5 million annually. Sushila has employed 11 local workers to care for and cultivate the plants. She earns a net annual profit of around Rs 2 million.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, the floriculture business has become the main source of income for her 10- member family. &#8220;Now I am economically self-sufficient,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>She supplies flowers to nine districts in the province including Kailali and Kanchanpur, at Rs 400 per kg.<\/p>\n<p>Her nursery produces a variety of flowers, including marigold, godawari (chrysanthemum), Rajanigandha (tuberose), gypsophila and gladiolus.<\/p>\n<p>Sushila has also established a flower sales center on the premises of the Dhangadhi metropolis, where she sells garlands, bouquets and flower bunches as well as flowers.<\/p>\n<p>In her experience, demand of flowers and floral decoration has increased in Dhangadhi in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Demand rises particularly during festivals, weddings, bratabandha (coming-of-age ceremonies), official functions, religious and cultural programmes, school events and other auspicious occasions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dhangadhi, Sept 29: A floriculture training provided by the Dhangadhi Sub-metropolis has proved to be a turning point in the life of Sushila Bista of Matayari of Dhangadhi- 6. Once a trainee in floriculture, Sushila has now become an employer, providing jobs to 11 local people. Over the years, her investment in the nursery business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55769"}],"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=55769"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55772,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55769\/revisions\/55772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}