Food fest in Jumla

A food festival has begun in Jumla Wednesday on the occasion of the Seventh Democracy Day, state-owned news agency RSS reported. Called the 'Food Festival - 2070', this is the first such event to be organised in Karnali zone.

Different food items prepared from local crops including bean, soybean, millet and buck wheat will be put on display for protection, promotion and marketization of local and indigenous crops of Karnali, its production, availability and to ease local farmers' access to them.

Similarly, other local food items—cake and momo prepared from millet, potato chips, herbal tea, rice prepared from Jumli Marshy rice species, jam and jelly prepared from apple, Newari food items, chicken sausage, pizza, homeopathic jeevan jal and among others, are put on display.

Coordinator of the Festival Organizing Committee, Senior Agriculture Development Officer Kamalesh Tiwar told RSS that the Festival is organised with an objective of increasing income through business of different food items by protecting and promoting different food crops and encouraging local farmers to involve in production of local crops.

There are 60 stalls and 14 cultural groups registered for the festival.

A total of Rs. 316,500 has been collected for the three-day Festival, according to the Finance Collection Sub-Committee.