Captain Regmi's Farm House began its work with two aims — maintaining environmental balance, and building the farm's economic life through agricultural production — and that journey is told in the previous piece. Here, I set out our thinking on the next twenty-five years.

The Madanpur area has changed, step by step: electricity arrived, piped water distribution began, and road construction has opened rural transport. Yet we cannot ignore that expanding roads have also brought soil erosion, environmental damage, and harm to agricultural production. Care must be taken with the roads still to come — and it is just as urgent to reduce the damage the finished roads have already done.

Transport now lets people living around the Kathmandu Valley commute daily from home to jobs, businesses, and studies. Looking long-term, the valley's urbanization shows no sign of slowing. With new connecting roads and the strengthening of existing ones, the likelihood of people settling outside the valley grows — and in that future, the districts joined to the valley, and especially places like Madanpur in Nuwakot, are certain to grow in importance.

Today, three roads connect the farm to Kathmandu, and they bring us close to the border crossings of both neighboring countries. The railway from China may still be some time away, but the tunnel to be built at Chahare–Tokha in the near future will bring Kathmandu closer still. The capital's growing population and dense construction weigh on its environment — yet its people cannot simply leave. It is only natural to want to escape Kathmandu's crowding for a few days, alone or with family, somewhere quiet and pleasant nearby.

The farm's purpose is to maintain environmental balance while raising animals and increasing agricultural and botanical production. To keep the farm alive, the following programs are planned for its economic life:

• Increase agricultural output using organic pesticides, organic compost, and organic jholmal (liquid manure) produced on the farm — and process what we grow before taking it to market.
• With no permanent irrigation available, collect and use rainwater in small ponds lined with plastic sheeting.
• Expand facilities to offer training programs of many kinds, for Nepalis and foreigners alike.
• Produce, exhibit, and sell handicrafts.
• Host Nepali brothers and sisters seeking relief from Kathmandu's congestion — and staff of international organizations ("development tourists") — for restful stays with family, with fresh organic vegetarian and non-vegetarian food from the farm.
• Run a nursery producing plants of economic value — fast-growing species for construction and household use, medicinal plants, and ornamentals — while steadily reforesting the steep land unsuited to cultivation.
• Involve students in educational visits to study the farm's agricultural and other systems — and work in cooperation and understanding with neighboring farms to raise production across the area.
• Draw the family's own new generations — those working, doing business, and studying abroad — back to the land. So long as the farm runs, the pull of the ancestral trust in Nepal will call to them: let us go, let us stay, let us contribute what we can. For tomorrow's generations living abroad, returning to Nepal once a year in remembrance of country and ancestors, and contributing to society, will matter greatly. I hold the hope that the coming generations will look on this thinking kindly and carry it forward. With modern communication and air travel, Nepal is no longer far from the world — and in other countries there are examples of such work, once begun, being continued by the generations that follow.

Abroad, development reaches everywhere with an evenness that visitors praise across whole regions — and the same holds for our own area. Captain Regmi's Farm House holds a positive conviction: that its own progress and the progress of the surrounding community must go together. To preserve what makes this area matter, we must all take care that the problems that have arisen in already-urbanized places are not repeated here.

When friends who grew up studying and playing together rise, step by step — to high administrative office, or to the front ranks of agriculture, trade, or politics — everyone celebrates. In just that way, the farm will rejoice when the surrounding area's agriculture and production grow and prosperity comes. Toward that end, the farm will move forward hand in hand with everyone — and in doing so, the importance of the whole Madanpur region will rise.

I believe that as the farm works by its twenty-five-year vision, not the farm alone but the entire surrounding region will advance — and Madanpur's place in the world will keep growing.

— Amir