Bhagwati Basyal
Vaibhav Pickle Industry, Tilottama–5, Coffee Company Bhagwati Bashyal of Coffee Company, Tilottama, Ward no. 5 has trained over 1,000 women in various groups like her in pickle making after having taken a training herself in the year 2056 B.S. (1999 A.D.). A number of women from areas such as Gulmi, Palpa, Arghakhanchi, and Tilottama, Omsatiya, Siyari, Shuddhodhan, and Sainamaina of Rupandehi district, have found purpose through her training and went on to become entrepreneurs themselves. In one of her training sessions, a participant repeatedly asked her, “Madam, you must have started a good business of your own too, right?” And to answer that very question, she formally registered a business and started her own pickle industry. In 2077 B.S. (2020 A.D), she established Vaibhav Pickle Industry and she has been providing employment to 7-9 people during peak seasons since.
Having served as a trainer for a long time, around 100 women trained by her, either in groups or individually, have gone on to operate their own pickle businesses. She states that her journey of learning through Daayitwa has become a guiding principle for the sustainable development of her own enterprise. What began with the initial investment of NPR 500,000 has now grown to approximately NPR 1-1.2 million. Since the pickles are made in Nepal with the use of locally sourced raw materials, she stands by the belief that Nepali pickle industries like hers can result in the significant cut in the import of the same while continuing to provide training in various districts, even now.
“I stand by the belief that Nepali enterprise of flavors like mine can result in a significant cut in the import and foster local change and development.”