With various crops grown in the district possessing immense health benefits being pushed to the verge of extinction as their value was not being understood by a majority of the people, the rural municipality formed Masta Small Farmer Cooperative.
It has organized the farmers to run a campaign to conserve different indigenous crops of the region.
As part of the campaign, the cooperative established a community seed bank which is managed by a seven - member committee. Dhir Bahadur Khadka, chairman of the community seed bank, said that some varieties of indigenous crops had already disappeared.