The increasing incidences of wildlife encroaching into human territories and coming in direct confrontation with humans, even in urban areas, is evidence enough that the line of separation between human settlements and animal habitats are closing in. A general reason for the trend is due to the wildlife habitat fragmentation …

Although Bhutan aims to achieve food security through increasing the production of cereal crops especially rice the effort has been mired with many challenges such as lack of irrigation water and loss of potential wetland to the developmental activities. According to a study carried out by the Research Development Centre …

The Agriculture Machinery Centre (AMC), with support from the Jigme Dorji National Park (JDNP), has developed an improved method of oil extraction, in order to keep the organic oil production going. The traditional practice was found to be labour intensive and time consuming, discouraging the farmers from the oil extraction …

Locally grown onions are set to flood the market in Bhutan. This might stop the need to import onions. This is already the case in the eastern region. It was made possible due to enrolling many eastern farmers in mass bulb onion cultivation by the Research and Development Centre (RDC), …

The 3-day Rhododendron Festival at the Royal Botanical Park at Lamperi, in tribute to His Majesty the Fourth King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, will start on April 18. The festival is keeping in mind that the Fourth Druk Gyalpo is the foremost nature conservationist, and under His Majesty’s vision, Bhutan has …

The Student Loan Scheme for tertiary education made possible under the Economic Stimulus Plan will provide students with the funds to continue their education. According to the Prime Minister, pursuing higher education should not be a luxury for the privileged only, but for all the Bhutanese students. The Student Loan …

A lot has been said on how the construction work sites are dominated by migrant workers from neighboring countries, like India and Bangladesh, while many of the Bhutanese youth remain without jobs. Many feel the youth workforce is not keen on taking up construction work in the booming construction industry, …

Sonam Phuntsho, in his 50s, is a nature lover on a mission to plant as many trees as he can. His zeal for nature conservation is undeterred by the scorching sun or beating rains. A glance at his hands tells of the hard work endured in working the land while …

Finding safe drinking water is one of the biggest challenges faced by rural communities, apart from the lack of irrigation water, human wildlife conflict, farm labour shortage and access to market. Such challenges have hindered the pace of gaining food-sufficiency, nutritional improvement and the income generation capacity of the farmers. …

The intensive effort put into grooming and training the young national footballers by the Bhutan Football Federation (BFF) has finally paid off with a 1-0 victory in the first round of World Cup qualifying match against Sri Lanka on March 12. Bhutan which is the lowest-ranked team in the world, …