Future Projects of Gorkha Ayurved Company (P) Ltd.

1. Model Herbal Garden.
The company management has designed a scheme to set up Model Herbal Garden in Thankot, Kathmandu. Out of the total land of 7-3-2-0 ropanis, 5 ropanis would be used to set up medicinal garden and 2-3-2-0 ropanis will be used to constitute office buildings and branch processing unit of the company. This proposed project site is situated quite near to the east of Tribhuvan Park and about 300 meter South-east of Thankot police check post on the gravel road to Chitlang. The company management is working on a plan to establish this herbal garden within the next few years by cultivating many species of herbal plants in Thankot. Moreover, in the long run the GAC management is working out a plan to build greenhouses in which the environment could be artificially controlled for successful and sustaining cultivation of tropical, sub tropical and cold region herbs. This model herbal garden would be the pioneer of such a type of unique medicinal garden in Nepal.

The garden will serve as a garden to show to visitors, and will introduce many people to different species of medicinal herbs, and the products grown in this garden would also be used in the on-site processing unit in Thankot, for the products of Gorkha Ayurved. Surplus can also be sold to interested buyers. It is also our hope that this garden will inspire other companies to take part in such an endeavor, and thus enhance medicinal herb production in Nepal.

Importance:
This is a unique concept of the company to promote medicinal herbal business across the country and introduce its significances to the people in Nepal and throughout the world. The following communities and sectors would be benefited from this proposed medicinal garden.

1. Consumers of herbal products and Ayurvedic medicines.
2. Villagers and low-income groups of people who would be employed there.
3. Researchers involved on medicinal herb studies.
4. The Ayurvedic medicine students, health workers and Ayurvedic doctors.
5. Different NGO and INGO involved in herbal promotion.
6. Related government agencies and departments working in NTFP sector.
7. Traders of Ayurvedic medicines, manufacturers of herbal medicine and herbal products, and the people involved in herbal business sectors.

Income Generating Activities
The company will launch two types of activities in the herbal garden, which are as follows:

Demonstration
The proposed garden is located just at the back and to the east of Tribhuvan Park and easily accessible for people to visit.

Herbal consumption
Without causing any harm to the beauty and attraction of the herbal garden, the company would be able to partially consume the herbs grown in the medicinal garden. There would be three kinds of herbs in the garden--trees, shrubs and annual crops. The annual crops can also be harvested and used for the making of medicines.

The following is a cost estimation for establishment of herbal garden.

Particulars Amount in Rs.

1. Land Survey and labeling NRs. 250,000.00
2. Compound wall NRs. 225,000.00
3. Water source digging well and plumbing NRs. 135,000.00
4. Herb plantation in 5 ropanis land NRs. 212,000.00
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Total NRs. 822,000.00

2. Establishment of branch processing unit

Gorkha Ayurved Company (P) Ltd currently has its processing unit in Prithvi Narayan Metro Politan City, ward no. 3, Haramtari, Gorkha, which was installed after the joint venture company was set up in 1984. Since the machineries installed in the processing unit are getting old and the machineries are not as efficient as is desired, it is more difficult to produce a quality product. The present demand of product line in home market is increasingly high and the production capacity is not meeting the increasing market demand. Hence, along with the enhancing of quality of product maintaining GMP criteria of WHO, the company is now obligated to increase mass production of medicines and consumer products. The management, therefore, is working on a plan to set up branch processing unit in Mahadev VDC - 7, Thankot, Kathmandu in the near future. The Department of Industry of HMG/Nepal has already approved the IEE report submitted and has issued a permit letter to for the installation of a branch production unit. The company management has a plan to install more modern machineries in the new processing unit in order to produce a huge production of medicine and consumer products, so that the company will be able to supply the current demands.