It is not only the story of Saraswati, everyone in the village are enjoying a prosperous life now. So, what has happen so prominent that the dust of village turned into gold?

“It’s a miracle,” says Manju Lamichhane, a farmer of Kubu, showing a leafy bush.

Thanks to the cardamom. Ever since they started farming this spicy plant in their least yielding fields, poverty has gone away. Perhaps, forever.

Ten years ago, Saraswati and some neighbors of her got an opportunity to take part in training launched by UNDP's Micro-Entrepreneur Development Program (MEDEP), an Australia funded anti-poverty program. There were two types of training available, jam making and cardamom farming. Rest of the villagers' choice was on jam making while Saraswati stood alone from Kubu to learn the secrets of the farming of spicy herbs.

When Saraswoti knew that Steep fields having the shade of uttis, a native Nepalese tree called Nelnus Nepalenis with facility of water is the mantra of cardamom farming, she instantly took vow to plant this spicy herbs all over her land. Though, she was mocked by the neighbors, the crop of cardamom paid off her well. Soon, all the villagers began following her footsteps.

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