Income from breeding than in the bay

The monthly salary in Qatar was 30,000 rupees. He said, "I saved four lakhs in four years and returned to my country. He did not want to go back abroad after investing that money and bought a farm.'

He returned from abroad in 2078 and started a business after buying 20 farms. "It has started to seem that the sweat spent in Qatar for four years is for others," he said, "It is a great joy to work with my family in my own land." I am also earning good money. He saved 400,000 by cutting the expenses while selling the chaunri ghee, cheese and milk he bought. "Now I am preparing to earn more by increasing the number of chaunris," he said.

Ajay Kerung of Falelung-4, who returned from working in Qatar and Bahrain for 12 years, bought 12 square meters and started a business last January. He said that he invested in this business knowing that he can earn good income from the chaunri breeding business. "Now, happiness is combined with money," he said.

Ajay said that after reaching Falaut, Charrate, Sandakpur, Nepaltar, Choyawan and Chiwa Bhanjang areas in the high mountain areas, there is an increase in the attraction of young people in the chaunri farming business because of the ease of exportation of ghee, churpi, cheese, grain and foodstuff import and drug treatment.

'Many friends returned from abroad and built houses in the city market, bought cars and horses,' he said. However, some of the young people here think that eating dudhbhaat with their family members in a cold place is more delicious than the artificial food kept in the refrigerator of Alisan Mahal.''

According to Tharkman Gurung, president of Phalelung Chounri Farming Farmers Network, until a decade ago, raising Chounri far from human settlements was a challenge in itself. 'Government care did not reach the cowshed, we had to live by carrying food, grain and sundries,' he said He said that the number of young people here who are returning from abroad and joining the city-market is increasing the number of buying cowsheds and rearing chaunri.

Falelung rural municipality has been organizing the Chaunri tourism festival every new year since 2073 for the promotion of dairy products along with the protection of Chaunri. Along with this, village chairman Birvikram Thamsuhang said that by appointing animal technicians, vaccination against infectious and fatal diseases, providing insurance, collaborating with the state and federal government and non-governmental sector to facilitate the cattle breeding business. He said that the investment that the local government has been making continuously for the last seven years in the protection and promotion of chaunri is now paying off.

It has become easy to take Chaunri's Ghee, Churpi, Cheese and Milk to the market after reaching the Khark and Goth here. For breed improvement, yaks have been brought from Bhutan and distributed to farmers. "Researchers have started coming from abroad to study chaunri, tourists from India and Bhutan come during the chaunri festival," said Thamsuhang, chairman of the municipality, "with the income of the locals from animal husbandry, the whole municipality is moving towards prosperity."

Chaunri farmer Chandralal Nepal, the leading chaunri farmer, says that the attraction of the youth has increased after the promotion of chaunri by coordinating the government, non-governmental and private sectors. "Until 2074, there were only 18 sheds in Phalelung, now the number of sheds has increased to 32," he said, "the number of yaks and chaunri in the district has increased from 700 to 1,050."

Chaunri, known as a synonym for Himal, is found only in 7 countries of the world including Nepal, Bhutan and Tibet. According to the data of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Cooperatives and Animal Husbandry, Chaunri is reared in high hilly and Himalayan districts of Nepal including Panchthar, Ilam, Taplejung, Solukhumbu, Sankhuwasabha, Dolakha, Rasuwa, Manang, Mustang, Okhaldhunga and Solukhumbu.