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Residents of several villages in Chhukha's Bjabchho Gewog are eagerly awaiting the long-overdue repair of their farm road. Villagers have been facing difficulty while transporting their farm produce due to the poor road condition. They said if the road is improved, it will significantly boost agricultural activities and improve livelihoods. Farmers here grow a wide variety of crops and vegetables....

The loan deferment period for hotels is set to end in June. According to the Hotel and Restaurant Association, nearly 70 per cent of hotels are still not in a position to begin repaying their loans. The association is now urging the government to provide Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) loans to affected hotels and to grant an additional one-year deferment...

Imagine being able to plan road construction, protect farmland from floods, or respond faster to disasters, all by looking at a map. That is now possible in the country, thanks to new digital topographic maps. The Japan International Cooperation Agency, JICA, handed over two maps to the land commission today. The maps were developed as part of the “Project for...

During the National Cadastral Resurvey Programme in 2012, lands covered with overgrown vegetation or situated in challenging terrain were left unsurveyed and categorised as TP plots. For more than a decade, many landowners have been unable to utilise these lands. At the recent Samtse Dzongkhag Tshogdu, local leaders raised the issue, calling for urgent solutions to a long-standing problem. Farmers...