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local GoodS and
Lesson 3 Unit 7
tHeir uSeS

Objectives:

On completion of this lesson, students will be able to:
• Enlist some names of local goods.
• Suggest some points for their promotion.

Nepal is a developing country. It has
many remote places. It has many
villages. The people who live in the
villages are mostly farmers. They
grow different kinds of crops in

different seasons. Farmers grow food
crops as well as cash crops. Besides
agriculture, the farmers in the villages
also produce some goods for their
daily use.

They make different goods for different
purposes. They mainly produce goods
such as, furniture, utensils, mats,
baskets, ropes, clay pots, blankets,
beaten rice, mustard oil, ghee, curd,
jam and many more.

They also grow some seasonal fruits
and vegetables. They use most of the
products at their homes and villages.
If they have surplus, then they sell in Local goods being produced
the market to earn money. The money
is used to buy the goods which they cannot produce in their villages.

Whatever goods the villagers produce, they use them for different

purposes. They use mat and furniture for sitting. Similarly, they use
baskets to keep things. Some female members weave woollen blankets,

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