Chepang beekeepers taste success in honey business

The indigenous community has been campaigning to conserve Chiuri trees, which provide nectar for bees.

Dipan Chepang of Kankada, Raksirang rural municipality, has built a house worth Rs2.5 million in his village with earnings from beekeeping. He is educating his three children and has also purchased a motorbike to commute between Bhandara, Lothar, and Hetauda.