Pokhara Receives 14,800 Goats and Sheep for Dashain Festival

Kaski. 14,800 goats and sheep have arrived in Pokhara targeting the festival season. Traders have brought goats and sheep for sale from the Himalayan district of Mustang, as well as from Darchula, Bajhang, Bajura, and Dolpa. Goat and sheep markets are in operation in Simpani of Pokhara Metropolitan City-1 and Hemja of Pokhara-25.

According to Navraj Adhikari, a veterinarian at the Livestock Service Branch of Pokhara Metropolitan City, nine thousand goats and sheep have been brought to Pokhara from Mustang, two thousand from Darchula, one thousand eight hundred from Bajhang, and one thousand each from Bajura and Dolpa. He informed that some more goats and sheep are still on the way and will arrive in the market one or two days before Phoolpati. Local goats are also brought to Pokhara for sale from other districts of Gandaki Province. Veterinarian Adhikari said, “Goats and sheep have arrived in Pokhara for Dashain. Some traders have already brought them to the market, while many have kept them in grazing areas in and around Pokhara. We have received information that these goats and sheep will be brought to the market in a day or two.”