Introduction

For the purpose of mountain agriculture business, agricultural industry, agricultural entrepreneurship, training and research. No. In the year 2071, Tilottama Himali Food Production and Research Center Pvt. Ltd. was established. This company is registered at 071 ÷ 072 at Company Registration Office Tripureshwar Kathmandu under Ministry of Industry, Government of Nepal and is also known as Tilottama Himali Food in short. The head office of the company is located in Bhimeshwar Municipality-8, Boch, Dolakha District.

Tilottama Himali Foods has been producing a large variety of fruit wraps since its inception. In the near future, this company is also preparing for commercial production, processing and marketing of food crops, fruits and vegetables produced in mountain agritourism, high mountain and Himalayan areas. The main objective of the company is commercialization, promotion, food processing and research in agriculture. To fulfill this purpose, in an area of ​​about 140 plants, Kiwi, Lemon, Mango, Cardamom, Haluvaveda, etc., are producing all kinds of fruits produced in the highlands, as well as Renvo Trout fish farming.

This company is preparing to process especially kiwi fruit, grain crops produced in the highlands, potatoes and other local food crops and vegetables. In addition to this, a program has been made to conduct professional training related to the production and processing of fruit and spice crops in the middle and high mountain areas. Himalayan Food is also taking part in the program of setting up a large nursery of all kinds of fruits in the hilly areas and preparing only necessary fruit bunches.

Overall condition of agriculture sector in Nepal

We all know that Nepal is an agricultural country. Due to the diversity of the climate, cultivation of almost all types of crops in the world is possible in Nepal. Therefore, despite being a small country in terms of area, Nepal has many potentials related to agricultural development. However, along with the potential, there are also many challenges. 65.66 percent of the total population is still dependent on agriculture. Even though more than half of the population is involved in agriculture, the pace of agricultural development is still slow. One-third of the country's gross domestic product is accounted for by the agricultural sector. However, according to the statistics of 2017, it is importing food worth 200 billion. Self-sufficient in food and vegetables, Nepal is currently in a state of dependence. Nepal, which exports billions of rice, is now importing rice worth 20 billions.

On the one hand, our villages, which were once self-sufficient in vegetables, now get cheap Indian and Chinese vegetables and fruits produced with government subsidies. On the other hand, due to the inability to make the agricultural profession commercially and economically beneficial within the country, and due to the inability to provide suitable employment opportunities, about four million young people are forced to go for foreign employment. Because of this, while the money received from remittances is being spent on buying imported food, the farms of those youths are becoming barren. In this situation, there is a big challenge to increase agricultural production, commercialize it and replace imports.

The main thing in this matter is the problem in the production. Farmer families are being displaced from the hilly areas and entering the city, the farmlands have become barren, while the arable land is being fragmented due to unplanned urbanization in the lowlands and arable hilly land. The country is becoming completely dependent on agricultural production as the state is unable to bring policies for agricultural production, processing and land protection in time. By not making agricultural production commercial and profitable, the dependence on imported food items has increased day by day. Therefore, the goal of Tilottama Himali Food is to develop agricultural production as a commercial, profitable business, to attract young manpower to agriculture and to increase agricultural production by creating jobs in our own country and presenting a model.

Future programs of Himalayan Food in Tilottama

We are in an agricultural country. After becoming an agricultural country, the main source of income of the state should be agriculture. For this, the import of food items can be substituted only if agricultural production can be increased, agriculture can be modernized and food can be processed.

It is necessary to develop entrepreneurship in the agricultural sector. Entrepreneurship can flourish only when agricultural produce can be widely produced and processed. Therefore, the development of commercial farming is in dire need of appropriate technical training and training.

While operating agricultural business, food processing and agriculture-related industries, this company has also planned to conduct training for youth and farmers related to agricultural processing and various agricultural businesses. It is clear that the government's goal of increasing agriculture-based production and economic development of the country by increasing employment will not be achieved unless agriculture is commercialized and the food industry related to agriculture is developed. Therefore, Tilottama Himalayan Food wants to share in the contribution, even if it is small, with the aim of developing agriculture of the government. However, it is often impossible to increase production in agriculture, achieve employment and economic growth without extensive financial and technical support from the state. The production of agricultural products in Nepal is dependent on the current climate and the raw and processed food products produced cannot be kept for a long time, so this business is very risky. Therefore, compared to other businesses, there is not much investment from private sector for agriculture business and industry in Nepal. This is why the state needs to invest more in this sector.