The Government of Nepal (through the Prime Minister?s Agricultural Modernization Project in Banke's Rice Super Zone) provided a 50% subsidy to farmers for farm mechanization, with emphasis on labor-saving mechanical weeders that have been demonstrated to be ergonomic and easy to use by women farmers.

CGIAR Research Program on Wheat2022-10-072022-10-07https://hdl.handle.net/10568/124817The Government of Nepal (through the Prime Minister?s Agricultural Modernization Project in Banke's Rice Super Zone) provided a 50% subsidy to farmers for farm mechanization, with emphasis on labor-saving mechanical weeders that have been demonstrated to be ergonomic and easy to use by women farmers.