Cash crops worth over Rs 15bn exported to India via Kakarbhitta point in FY 2023/24

JHAPA: Cash crops including black cardamom, tea leaves, ginger, and amliso (broom grass) worth over Rs 15.33 billion were exported via Kakarbhitta, a key transit point in Jhapa district, in the fiscal year 2023/24). 

Likewise, agricultural products valued at more than Rs 18.95 billion were exported to India via Kakarbhitta in the last fiscal year.

According to Chandreshwor Yadav, Information Officer at Kakarbhitta's Quarantine Office, orthodox brand tea weighing 11,648 metric tonnes and valued at Rs 6.98 billion was supplied through Kakarbhitta last fiscal year.

Furthermore, Kakarbhitta recorded the export of 4,510 metric tonnes of black cardamom last fiscal year, valued at over Rs 6.52 billion. Similarly, 9,545 metric tonnes of amliso grass, worth Rs 1.24 billion, were exported.

Ginger is among the significant agricultural products exported from eastern Nepal. It was reported that ginger worth Rs 580 million was exported in last fiscal year 2023/24.