Cattle rearing versus city rules
When urbanization spreads its wings, villagers thus overshadowed find it difficult to get their heads around developments. A recent incident, where a group of farmers from south Thimphu met to discuss the Thimphu city corporation's rule, which bans rearing livestock in the capital city's jurisdiction, bears witness to the growing conflict between planners and farmers. On Monday, after a farmer from Tshalimarphey found her two missing cows in the, as she put it, "central jail for cattle' in lower Mothithang, farmers appealed to the city to bend the rule.