Blockade limits choices for apparel consumers

Nov 26, 2015- An unofficial Indian trade blockade and unrest in the Tarai have dampened sales of winter clothing as stores have not been able to offer new designs to their customers. At the same time, potential shoppers have become housebound due to a fuel shortage created by the embargo.

Although the winter season has already started, apparel dealers have no new offerings as their shipments are stuck at the border due to the blockade.
Stores in the Kathmandu Valley are waiting anxiously for the current problem to be resolved so that they can launch the latest designs trending in the market. Most shops have brought out their old stocks while some outlets have displayed new designs with heavy price tags. Traders said that prices were higher than last year as they had to bring their goods by expensive air cargo. “We have been able to offer only 10-15 percent of the clothing selections compared to last year,” said Hari Gyawali, proprietor of B4 Fashion located at People’s Plaza, Khicha Pokhari. He added that he had been buying small quantities of clothes from wholesalers at high prices.
Style Icon, an apparel store at City Centre, Kamal Pokhari, expressed the same sentiments. “Business is down 90 percent. First, we are not able to offer new products. Second, customers are not able to travel far to do their shopping because their vehicles are low on fuel,” said Rohit Nepal, manager of the showroom.
Even then, the shop has launched some jackets, sweaters, jumpers and hoods that were brought by air from China and Thailand. Prices of jackets range from Rs4,800 to Rs7,500, while jumpers and hoods cost between Rs2,200 and Rs2,500. Sweaters range in price from Rs2,200 to Rs3,500. According to traders, the goods cost 30-40 percent more due to higher air freight charges.
Surya Nepal, the manufacturer of Springwood and John Players brands of men’s wear, is yet to launch new designs. “Only around 50 percent of the designs for this winter have been launched.” said Ishwor Gautam, business head at the domestic garment department of Surya Nepal.
“This season should have been the busiest time of the year, but winter sales are the lowest in a decade,” said Parshuram Shrestha, proprietor of Men’s and Women’s Wear at Suraj Arcade, Makhan Tol. “We would bring winter clothes in wide colour options and special designs at this time with hopes of good sales, but our whole winter plan has been disrupted by the blockade.”

Published: 26-11-2015

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One cow gives 28 liters of milk daily

Eastern part of Chitwan cost tens operated and managed farm is considered the country’s cattle farm. Rent to own and seized 26 46 20 seized spread this farm seized areas are 16 art stall. Farms requisite five million has been invested.

Khairahani Municipality-11 on the Laligurans dairy farm and research center, three hundred and two hundred cows are recent. A hundred of whom are 25 milch cows. The cow’s daily one thousand two hundred one thousand two hundred and 50 liters of milk to the supervisor added. Large area and gate-art office building, staff housing and the leads are within the large and modern cattle. A separate parlor is milked milk. Where a time of 28 milk cows Device supports.

Some of the cattle shed at the parlor when they go into stand. After the device is connected to the pen itself all milk added. About seven minutes all milk, he said. One hundred and 20 feet in length and 42 feet in width has been allocated for the four leads opportunty. Similarly, for the four, one for the pregnant and sick vines are a stable.

One cow gives milk daily

Form for the implementation of a veterinary doctor, two to obtain 3 to 9 employees are technicians. BS started to feed the cattle farm in November 2070 in the last three months spent working staff of Strategic Planning. Among those collected from different areas of the district after the first cow herds MAKWANPUR and even India was DPO. Cross and Jersey cows farm crosses are. 70 of between one million to 30 thousands daily 28 liters of cow’s milk they purchased. 20 to 16 liters more milk cows, Poudel said that the supervisor.

40 seized area with grass to feed the cows is banned. Including Napier, millet species as well as body. Grass fed by as many employees say; the grass is different from seasonal preparing grain kernel itself is now ready to prepare in terms.

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South Sudanese commanders use child soldiers as “cannon fodder”

NAIROBI: More than a dozen senior commanders and officials who children say recruited them as soldiers in South Sudan should be investigated, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday.

The United Nations says 16,000 children have joined armed groups since South Sudan’s civil war erupted two years ago.

“It’s the brutal recruitment that is the most heart wrenching,” Skye Wheeler, the report’s author, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

“Forces come through their village and grab them and force them into fighting. It’s an absolute negation of their basic rights as children, but also as people, not to be treated just as cannon fodder.”

South Sudan was plunged into a civil war in December 2013 when a political crisis triggered fighting between forces loyal to President Salva Kiir and rebels allied with his former deputy Riek Machar. The conflict has reopened ethnic faultlines that pit Kiir’s Dinka people against Machar’s ethnic Nuer people.

A peace deal was signed in August but the two sides have repeatedly accused each other of violations.

A third of 74 boys interviewed who fought in the current conflict said they were forcibly recruited, often at gunpoint.

Many said they were detained until they agreed to fight or simply abducted, handed a gun and sent into battle.

“I had no experience of holding a gun before,” said one boy in the report who was abducted from school by opposition forces.

“They told us this is how you use it… Then we began fighting.”

Around half of the boys interviewed said they willingly joined armed groups to protect themselves and their communities.

“Without the protection of a gun and an armed group, many boys believed they would have been even more vulnerable to being killed,” the report said.

Half of the child soldiers interviewed fought or worked for government forces or their allies.

Among the most prominent names cited in the report is Matthew “Pul” Puljang, an ethnic Bul Nuer commander who fought in a Unity State militia before joining the government in April 2013.

South Sudan’s army spokesman Philip Aguer said its Child Protection Unit had planned to visit Unity State in 2013 to investigate allegations of Puljang using child soldiers.

“But the visit was interrupted by the violence and it has never taken place,” he said.

“We welcome all investigations to prove any allegations.”

HRW also called for another former rebel who has joined the government side, David Yau Yau, to be investigated.

Yau Yau has released 1,755 child soldiers from his ranks since he signed a peace deal with the government in 2014.

“It not going to be solved just by releasing boys,” Wheeler said. “There also needs to be accountability for commanders who have recruited and used child soldiers to end this endless cycle.”

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