Mustang's Gharpagjhoong Rural Municipality Distributes Yaks and Nakas with 50% Subsidy

Mustang. Gharpagjhoong Rural Municipality has distributed yaks and nakas to livestock farmers at a 50 percent subsidy. The rural municipality has distributed yaks and nakas at a subsidy to livestock farmers under the 'Himali Yak-Naka Promotion' program.

The rural municipality's chairman Mohan Singh Lalchan informed that the subsidy was distributed with the objective of encouraging farmers to raise yaks and nakas through a 50-50 cost-sharing partnership between the beneficiary livestock entrepreneurs and the rural municipality under the federal conditional grant. According to him, yaks and nakas were purchased and distributed at a cost of Rs 750,000 from the municipality and Rs 750,000 from the livestock farmers.