Coffee Farmer Bharat Rai is feeling good about his coffee production and growing income! Collective coffee processing will be happening for the first time in December 2023! CLN’s earliest coffee bushes are mature and thousands more are just beginning to produce...
New farmers receiving macadamia seedlings from the nursery. The secret is out! Farmers all around Sankhuwasabha District have heard about macadamia nuts, and they want to plant trees. This year CLN had planned to add 150 new farmers to the project–and we actually...
Macadamia farmer Bindu Darji has a big smile because she just sold 22 lbs of freshly harvested nuts for nearly $100, and in rural Nepal that’s good earnings! Bindu Darji wins! She and her family of five have three mature macadamia trees, which produced 62 lbs. of nuts...
SODEC Director Parshu Dahal with Macadamia farmer Bhesh Raj Basnet…and his tall macadamia trees! Farmer demand for our macadamia seedlings is at an all-time high…and going up!! Why? Because after waiting patiently for 5-6 years to see how our first saplings would do,...
Organic Coffee Farmer Exposure Visit Coffee farmers exposure visit…and coffee cherries drying in the sun. In February, we sponsored an exposure visit to educate our lead organic coffee farmers on a new method of coffee cherry processing. Only one coffee farm in Nepal...
