Nepal : A country of villages

 By Sagar Saud

Sarkegad villlage, Humla, Nepal. A hilly settlement. Dense housing. Houses are made up of stone, wood, mud and straw-roofed. As it is remote hilly geography it is very difficult and expensive to provide development. In such places, people are deprived of pure drinking water, schools are far, difficulty in distributing electricity. 

Sarkegad village, Humla, Nepal

In Nepalese village, most of the families have a social interdependence, social relationship, relatives, and same clan settlements.  They have some land whether it be fertile with irrigation facility or hilly land dependent on rain water for farming. They have at least a house to live be it modern be it traditional wooden or stoned one. In livestock, cow, oxen, buffalo, goat, sheep, yak, hen, duck, and like that are kept for living. They grow most of the everyday things like wheat, paddy, maize, millet, lintels, vegetables, banana, mango, papaya and fruits like that for their own eating. 

Millet farming in hilly village, Nepal

An enumerator taking economic census data

An enumerator taking data detail for first economic census in 2018 Nepal in Deulikot village of Bajhang district. This economic census was conducted by Central Statistics Bureau Nepal and its district offices. 

An enumerator taking economic census at a tea shop