Nepalis look to rear buffaloes after China offers mega meat deal

Meat’s potential worth would amount to almost 66 percent of Nepal’s annual imports of $2.21 billion from China.

In Majhthana, a remote hill station in Kaski district, Chandra Kanta Ghimire, a returnee migrant, wakes up early to cook khole (a soup of maize flour and vegetables) to feed his buffaloes. He has minimal green fodder, so he supplements their diet with a mixture of dry straw.