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The Government of Nepal (through the Prime Minister’s Agricultural Modernization Project in Banke's Rice Super Zone) provided a 50% subsidy to farmers for farm mechanization, with emphasis on labor-saving mechanical weeders that have been demonstrated to be ergonomic and easy to use by women farmers.
CGIAR Research Program on Maize. 2019. The Government of Nepal (through the Prime Minister’s Agricultural Modernization Project in Banke's Rice Super Zone) provided a 50% subsidy to farmers for farm mechanization, with emphasis on labor-saving mechanical weeders that have been demonstrated to be ergonomic and easy to use by women farmers. . Reported in Maize Annual Report 2019. Policy.