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The Lhops or Doyaps in Samtse have lived off whatever nature provided them for as long as they can remember. But now, dishes like ema datshi and kewa datshi are on the menu. In Ngawang Dramtoe village under Tading Gewog, where a few communities of Lhops live, foxtail millet and maize are harvested. It is only recently that the Lhops learned vegetable farming. 

The Mountain Hazelnuts, one of the country's biggest private companies, has sent around 300 of its employees on unpaid leave.  It is for up to three months beginning this month. The company employs more than 400 people. According to the company’s management, it is an interim measure taken up to cut down cost for the sustainability of the company amid the pandemic.

Rural-urban migration has always been an issue. It has left many homes in the villages empty. People come to towns in search of better lives. But one man left town for a village in Pema Gatshel. And he has no regrets.

Twenty-two households of Wangling village of Monpa community in Trongsa missed paddy transplantation for almost three years now. And the community is likely to miss paddy transplantation this season as well. The Gewog and the District Administration could not come up with a permanent solution after a landslide washed away the irrigation canal in 2018.

With the completion of the resurfacing works of the 33-kilometre stretch between Gangola highway in Monggar and Lhuentse, commuters will no longer have to experience the...

Chilli yield in Yalang and Ramjar Gewogs of Trashi Yangtse has gone down. Chilli production decreased due to less rainfall and pests infestation. And this has left the farmers distressed as the local chillies fetch them a good price in the market. But the price of chillies has not dropped below Nu 200 per kilogram. 160 households in the two gewogs cultivate chillies in around 32 acres of land. 

Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen graced an event to commemorate World Environment Day, which is observed globally on June 5 every year.

Two years from now, people living in the six eastern dzongkhags need not have to visit Thimphu to avail themselves of services related to maternal and child health. The groundbreaking ceremony of the Gyaltsuen Jetsun Pema Mother and Child Hospital in Monggar was held yesterday coinciding with the Birthday of Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen.

Cordyceps- a cash cow for the highlanders is slowly losing its charm on the farmers who left their fields. With the cordyceps collectors hit hard by the disrupted market due to the pandemic, and the search for the fungus getting more difficult by the year with the increasing number of collectors and poor yield, people of Chhoekhor Toed in Bumthang are returning to their fields as an alternative source of income. They have been heavily reliant on the fungus for their livelihoods for almost two decades. Today, land reclamation works are underway in fields that have been left fallow for years and more people have started cultivating crops. 

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) dropped the case of alleged collusion and undue price-fixing in the export of gypsum. According to the ACC, the commission decided to stop further investigation into the case due to a lack of evidence. The ACC received a complaint, last year against the Marketing Specialist and the Director of Marketing & Logistics of State Mining Corporation Limited (SMCL) alleging possible collusion and undue price-fixing in the export of gypsum to Nepal.