Kathmandu, Feb. 12 -- Ganesh Bahadur Shrestha was a civil servant in his native Pokhara, and his mother made pustakari at home and the children packaged it for sale in the market.

The milk sweets sold like, well, hot pustakari, and Shrestha invested NRs70 in new equipment to increase production. His mother could not keep up with demand. Soon, he left the government job and started a confectionary business making candy, toffee and chocolates.

But the business could not grow as fast as it could have because of the lack of raw materials: mainly milk and sugar. When the government decided to privatise the Dairy Development Corporation (DDC) in Pokhara, the family acquired it and launched a dairy processing business.

Today, Sujal Dairy is o...