The Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) has increased the price of petroleum products. The new market price of petrol, diesel and LP gas or cooking gas will come into effect from 1:00 am today. Accordingly, the price of petrol has been increased by Rs.4, diesel-kerosene by Rs.2 and LP gas ...
Previously, only big farmers could afford petrol-driven motorized water pumps of higher capacities, but nowadays even poor people can afford small electric motor pumps. The following report from a poor household having small piece of agricultural land illustrates this: "I have installed a tube-well...