Decline in honey sales worries farmers in central Nepal

Cheaper and counterfeit honey in the domestic market is hurting the business, they say.

Dinesh Chepang, a resident of Raksirang Rural Municipality in Makwanpur district, has been running a honey processing factory at Piple, Chitwan since 2007. He usually sells 30 tonnes of honey every year but he has only been able to sell five tonnes since mid-April last year.