| English | Dzongkha | Friday, August 18, 2017 |
The number of tourist hotels certified by the Tourism council of Bhutan (TCB) has increased over the last four years. Going by what has been reflected in the State of the Nation Report, 2017, from 62 hotels in 2013, the number spiked to 116 last year.
A kilogramme of best quality cordyceps fetched a little more than Nu 2m at the cordycep auction in Saephu Gewog of Wangdue Phodrang. This was the highest price recorded this year.
With many constructions taking place in the country, the demand for sand is ever increasing. The western region saw a threefold rise in the sand demand in the last six months.
Vegetable vendors in Phuentshogling claim that the recent allocation of taxi parking near the vegetable market is affecting their business.
It all comes down to money. Vendors of Sharpa Gewog in Paro prefer selling crops on the roadside of the highway than in the vegetable market shed.
This year’s first cordyceps auction was held in Tsento, Paro yesterday. As is the case almost every year, this year too, the quality of the cordyceps collected from the dzongkhag was poor, leaving the bidders disappointed once again.
Farmers in the east are not happy with the prices they are getting for their potatoes at the Samdrup Jongkhar auction yard.
Thirty three-year-old Pema Lhamo is causing quite a stir as the only tailor in the whole of Zhemgang town. The mother of five from Goshing Gewog learned tailoring as a student at the Zorig Chhusum institute in Trashi Yangtse.
Despite mass production of beans, people of Choongkha under Bongo Gewog in Chhukha are not happy as their beans failed to fetch better price this time.
Fifty-year-old Norbu Gyeltshen is among the first few farmers to take up commercial farming in Berdoongma, a village in Trashigang where large scale farming is almost unheard of.