I’m back. And I’m sorry for the confusion my last entry created.
Anonymous Migmar wondered how I’d posted “Celebrating women” with “No road, no electricity and no telephone” in the two gewogs I was visiting. So he asked: “… are you back in Thimphu or is someone from your office upgrading your blog… he..he Explain.”
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I’m off to my constituency.
We’ll walk everyday, some days for more than 12 hours, to visit some 18 villages in Gakiling and Sombaykha. In these remote gewogs live some of our poorest people.
I’m looking forward to meeting our people: to give them my report on the second session of the National Assembly; to ask for [...]
While traveling to Haa today, I saw several farmers planting potatoes. Some were done. Others, like this couple in Jabana, were just beginning to prepare their field. But all of them expect a good crop – the rains came just in time.
Yes! It snowed in Haa. And the land is now moist. So our farmers are working their fields in earnest, preparing them to plant potatoes.
Before the recent snow and rain, our farmers could not plough their fields – the earth was too hard, and much of the dry top soil would have been lost [...]
Well it didn’t snow last night. And it didn’t rain enough. But it’s still overcast. And I’m hopeful.
Part of my excitement yesterday was because I was sure it would snow in my village, which, at about 2800 m, is higher than Thimphu. But it didn’t snow there either. The light drizzle was barely enough to [...]
It’s drizzling outside. I hope it rains. In fact I hope it snows. We need the precipitation.
Our rivers have dwindled. And can barely turn the hydropower turbines that generate electricity – and revenue – for our country.
But, more importantly, our farmers have not been able to cultivate their land. Without water, their land is parched [...]
I am delighted that the agriculture minister is traveling to our dzongkhags to discuss the 10th Plan and to identify viable products that our villagers can make (read Taking the 10th plan to the people). If villagers and local leaders are fully involved in the process and genuinely accept his idea, our agriculture minister could [...]
Tshering Tobgay is a Member of Parliament representing Sombaykha Constitutency in Haa. He is the Leader of the Opposition Party in the National Assembly of Bhutan.
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