Nepal Magar Sangh Rainadevi is a local committee of the national Magar federation at Rainadevi Chhahara Rural Municipality-4, Saunneta, Palpa, Lumbini Province. Its DGM Nepal second-batch sub-project processes timmur, Sichuan pepper from Zanthoxylum armatum, one of Nepal’s highest-value non-timber forest products. Timmur is a thorny shrub harvested for its aromatic fruit husk, used as a spice and in traditional medicine, with strong demand in domestic markets and export to India and beyond. The commercial gap in the chain is post-harvest: most collectors sell undried, ungraded fruit at low prices, while properly dried, cleaned, graded and packaged timmur fetches several times more. This sub-project targets exactly that stage, with grant funds expected to cover drying and grading equipment, cleaning and packaging, a processing space, quality standards and buyer linkage. The design lets Magar households capture more value from a resource they already harvest, matching DGM Nepal’s enterprise objectives.
