Nepal

All Nepal Peasants’ Federation (ANPFa)
Location: Central Office, KMC-14, Balkhu, Kathmandu, Nepal
Contact Person: Hari Prasad Parajuli, Chairperson / Nahendra Khadka
Phone: +977-9851167075, 9851242669, +977-1-5187369/5187304
Fax: 01-5187369
E-mail: anpfa@anpfa.org.np / parajuli@anpfa.org.np / nahendra@gmail.com
Website: www.anpfa.org.np

Established in 1951 AD, the All Nepal Peasants Federation (ANPFa) is a leading organization of Nepalese peasants for defending the rights of the peasants, organizing and training them for commercialization of agriculture, defending the interest of family and smallholder farmers. ANPFa is an umbrella organization of 26 different production and community-based peasant associations. It is the largest peasant organization of the country and the third largest peasant organization in Asia that strongly adheres to the social and economic interest of the agricultural producers, landless, marginal and small farmers, share-croppers and tenants, agriculture workers, fisher-folks, pastoralists, and farm tool crafters from the rural communities.

Historically, ANPFa was involved in mobilization for democratic freedom, peasant rights, land reform, food sovereignty and right to food, scientific land reform, agriculture development, agroecology, gender equality, social and climate justice, peace, prosperity, and socialism. It also works for the professionalization of farming, development of agro-entrepreneurship and agro-based industries, biodiversity-based ecological agriculture (BEA), integrated rural development, promotion of co-operatives and collectivization, main-streaming of women, youth, Dalits and Indigenous people in production and peasants’ movement, rural livelihood, peasants’ access on natural and productive resources, peasants and FOs’ participation in decision making.

ANPFa is rebuilt by the historic unification of four major peasants’ organizations of the country viz. All Nepal Peasants’ Federation, All Nepal Peasants’ Federation (Revolutionary Centre), Nepal Farmers’ Federation, and All Nepal Progressive Peasants’ Association as an entirely new peasants’ organization with the convergence of diverse knowledge, experience, and capacities to lead the peasants of Nepal for the transformation of agriculture and improving their living standard for achieving “Prosperous Nepal, Happy Nepali”. After the unification, ANPFa constitutes a 9 membered Standing Committee, 51 membered Central Secretariat, and 251 membered Central Committee and claims a versatile presence of leadership in all the 3 tiers of the Government (Federal, Provincial and Municipality/Rural Municipality) of Nepal. The federation gains the strength of its well-organized committees at 7 provinces, 77 districts, 753 rural/municipalities, different producer groups, and cooperatives at base level with a vibrant synergy of 26 production (commodity) and community-based peasant associations at the national level. The membership count has reached 2,306,000 and continuously increasing. Besides production, ANPFa champions policy advocacy and campaign. Its proactive role and prominent leadership while institutionalizing peasants’ rights in key policies are inscribed in the history of the Nepalese peasant movement in golden letters (2015 Constitution of Nepal, Agriculture Development Strategy (ADS 2015-2035), the promulgation of Food Sovereignty Act (2017), and the establishment of National Farmers’ Commission, among others).

ANPFa is the leading organization of the National Peasants’ Coalition in Nepal. It is a well-established peasants’ organization in the international peasants’ movement as well as an active membership of La Via Campesina, FIAN, and many other regional and sub-regional peasants’ organizations and coalitions.

ANPFa is registered to the District Administration Office, Lalitpur and now it has also been registered to the National Farmers’ Commission (NFC): the only Government Authority delegated with the power of registering the FOs and support them for their institutional capacity building.

Nepal Farmers’ Association (NFA)
Location: Central Office, Sanepa, Kathmandu, Nepal
Contact Person: Bhanu Sigdel, Chairperson / Adarsha Bikram Karki
Phone: +977-9851225146 / 9841393079
E-mail: bhanu.sigdel@gmail.com / karkiadarsha2@gmail.com

Established in 1951 AD, the Nepal Farmers’ Association (NFA) is one of the largest peasant organization in the country. NFA follows the ideology of democracy with the objectives of transforming the Nepalese rural economy for the development of the country. Along with the introduction of democracy, NFA aimed to ensure peasant rights and develop the agriculture sector as the main economy of the country. During its inception, it was concentrated on ending feudalism and implement land reform. NFA contributed a vital role in abolishing the Birta system, Guthi system, and stop the privatization of natural resources. It has played a great role in ending the brutal and exploitative legal and constitutional provisions towards farmers and for the land reform and formation of land commissions in the past.

The goals of NFA are patriotism, democracy, and socialism; people sovereignty and independence of farmers; unity among the farmers and farmers’ network; protection of farmer’s socio-cultural and political rights; formulation of peasant-friendly agriculture policies and peasant and farmers rights. Its main objectives are: to form the ideology-based committee; to solve the problems of farmers through the democratic process; to assure and campaign for the right of local level farmers and the sustainability of agriculture, and to support the poor farmers by organizing the farmers’ group and cooperatives.

NFA has a central committee, 7 provincial committees, 77 district committees, and Rural/Municipality committees. It is one of the largest peasants’ organizations in Nepal having 700,000 members all over the country. It is an active member of the National Peasants’ Coalition in Nepal. It is registered at the National Farmers’ Commission of Nepal in 2015 AD.

Women Peasants’ Association, Nepal (WOPAN)
Location: Madan Nagar, Balkhu, Kathmandu, Nepal
Contact Person: Seema Rijal, Chairperson
Phone: +977-14036203 / +977-9841647999
E-mail: rijal.sima015@gmail.com

The Women Peasants’ Association, Nepal (WOPAN) is one of the pioneers in political and gender-based organizations. Established in 2003, it is the largest women peasants’ organization determined to establish classless gender equitable society where women peasants live a dignified and independent life.

WOPAN is a member-based organization organized at the municipal, district, province, and central level committees all over the country. More than 150,000 members are organized in different committees and producer groups at the base level. In addition to the organized members, thousands of women peasants are associate members of WOPAN.

WOPAN envisions a gender-equitable socialist society where women peasants enjoy their dignified life. The mission of the organization is to establish women peasants’ equal rights on the means of production (resources) and equal share on benefits. It advocates food sovereignty, agrarian transformation, scientific land reform, climate justice, agroecology, gender equality, social inclusion, and peasants’ rights. It is in the process of its legal registration at National Farmers’ Commission, Nepal.

Youth Peasants’ Organization, Nepal (YPON)
Location: Balkhu, Kathmandu, Nepal
Contact Person: Babu Ram Thapa, Chairperson
Phone: 9852048118
E-mail: baburam@anpfa.org.np

Established in 2003, the Youth Peasants’ Organization, Nepal (YPON) is an association of young and energetic peasants involved in agricultural production. It organizes productive, patriotic, democratic, and justice-loving young Nepalese peasants who are the future of agriculture.

YPON is the largest youth peasants’ organization in the country with more than 200,000 organized members and supporters. It bears an organizational structure vertically hierarchical that constitutes Central Committee at the apex down to 7 Provincial Committees, 77 District Committees, Municipal and rural municipal Committees, Ward Committees, and finally producer groups. The organization advocates food sovereignty, agrarian revolution through scientific land reform, sustainable agriculture, gender equality, and climate justice. The mission of the organization is to establish social democracy with the active participation of youth peasants with agrarian revolution, scientific land reform, and food sovereignty and to achieve the country’s prosperity with peasants’ prosperity. YPON is currently in the process of registration at the National Farmers’ Commission, Nepal.

Dalit Landless Peasant Association (DALPA)
Location: Balkhu, Kathmandu, Nepal
Contact Person: Lal Bahadur B.K., Chairperson
Phone: +977- 9848820900
E-mail: bklalbahadurbk@gmail.com

The Dalit Landless Peasant Association (DALPA) is an organization of landless and marginal peasants fighting against all forms of caste-based discrimination. It was established in 2003. As the largest peasants organization of Dalit and Landless peasants, the main goal of DALPA is to have social equality by eliminating all forms of caste-based discrimination, oppose land grabbing, promote food sovereignty, scientific land reform, right to land, and safe shelter (housing), social and climate justice and dignified life. DALPA serves as a forum for raising the collective voices of Dalit landless peasants along with the Dalit community to ensure their rights, dignity, and opportunity through policy influencing, networking, and alliance building.

It is a national peasant organization having more than 65,000 membership with a key task of the protection and promotion of Dalit peasant’s rights, and enhancing their individual and institutional capacity. It has central, provincial, district, and local level committees and has a vital role to establish the inclusion of Dalit peasants and their agenda in the policy-making process. DALPA was registered at National Farmers’ Commission, Nepal in 2015 AD.

Federation of Community Forestry Users’ Nepal (FECOFUN)
Location: Changunarayan, Bhaktapur
Contact Person: Bharati Pathak, Chairperson / Thakur Bhandari
Phone: +977-1-6616408 / 6616421 / 9841516209
Fax: 6616427
E-mail: thakurb01@yahoo.com / fecofun@wlink.com.np
Website: www.fecofun.org.np

The Federation of Community Forestry Users, Nepal (FECOFUN) is a formal network of Forest User Groups (FUGs) from all over Nepal. FECOFUN emerged from the idea that forest users from all parts of the country should be linked in order to strengthen the role of Users in policy-making processes. Since its inception, it has grown into a social movement representing around 14 million forest users and 2.9 million household members. It is a national federation of forest users across Nepal dedicated to promoting and protecting users’ rights. It was established in 1995 AD and registered at the district office of Kathmandu in 1996 AD. Of more than 22,266 Community Forestry Users Groups (CFUGs) and other Community Based Forest Management Groups like leasehold forestry groups, religious forestry groups, buffer zone and traditional forest management groups, etc. which covers 2,200,000 hectors forest in Nepal. It has a central committee, 7 provincial committees, 77 district committees, and 520 local committees.

The vision of the organization is self-reliance and empowerment of community forest users, through the application of social and economic justice in the equitable use and sustainable management of community forests. Similarly, the mission of FECOFUN is to promote and protect the rights of community forest users through capacity strengthening, economic empowerment, sustainable resource management, technical support, advocacy and lobbying, policy development, national and international networking and to uphold the values of inclusive democracy, gender balance, and social justice.

National Federation of Irrigation Water Users Association Nepal (NFIWUAN)
Location: Old Baneshwor Kathmandu, Nepal
Contact Person: Gajadhar Yadav, Chairperson / Shambhu Dulal
Phone: +977-1-4475010 / +977 9851036227
E-mail: shambhupddulal@gmail.com
Website: www.nfiwuan.org

The National Federation of Irrigation Water Users Association Nepal (NFIWUAN) was established in 1998 comprising of 13 Water Users Association (WUAs) from 8 districts at the initial stage. It received its legal status in August 1998 after being registered in the District Administration Office of Kathmandu. Now, it has 3,091 units of WUAs from 76 districts are registered in NFIWUAN and 350,000 members all over the country. It received its legal status in August 1998 after being registered in the district administration office of Kathmandu.

The overall goal of the National Federation of Irrigation Water Users Association of Nepal is to promote inclusive economic growth while reducing poverty in the rural areas throughout the country. Its specific objective is to improve the agricultural productivity and sustainability of existing small, medium, and large size Farmer Managed Irrigation Systems (FMIS) suffering from low productivity and high poverty incidence, and thus enhance the livelihood of poor men and women including ethnic minorities and Dalits.

National Land Right Forum, Nepal (NLRF)
Location: Bharatpur Municipality-1, Thimaha, Chitwan, Nepal
Contact Person: Saraswati Subba, Chairperson
Phone: +977-1-6914586 / 9841877301
E-mail: subbasaraswati@gmail.com / land@nlrfnepal.org
Website: www.nlrfnepal.org

The National Land Right Forum (NLRF) is a land-poor people’s organization established in 2004 and was duly registered under the National Directive Act 1961 in Kathmandu. Now it is also registered at National Farmers’ Commission, Nepal in 2015.

NLRF wishes all farmers to be self-reliant through sustainable use of land, thus explains its unwavering journey to provide secured housing and ownership of agricultural land. NLRF has set out certain values and ethics which it follows. It further believes that land rights’ social movement must be peaceful, non-violent, and creative. It expects every member, frontline leaders, and activists to come up with new and creative tasks.

The vision of the forum is a self-reliant farmer community and the mission is to empower the landless people to claim what is due them. It has a central committee of 27, 7 provincial committees, 60 district committees, 153 rural/municipal level committees, and 86,436 individual members.

National Farmers Group Federation (NFGF)
Location: KMC-31, Madhya Baneshwar, Kathmandu, Nepal
Contact Person: Nawaraj Basnet, Chairperson
Phone: +977-1-4356201 / 4361327 / 9861139999
E-mail: info@nfgf.org.np / nawarajbasnet2025@gmail.com
Website: www.nfgf.org.np

The National Farmers Group Federation (NFGF) Nepal, is an umbrella organization of agriculture groups, livestock groups, and agri-cooperatives. NFGF is working for the benefit of marginalized, disadvantaged, and small farmers located throughout the nation. The organization is registered in District Administrative Office, Kathmandu on 27th March 2012, affiliated in Social welfare Council, Kathmandu on 2070 BS. Now it has been also registered at National Farmers’ Commission, Nepal. The central office of the organization is located in Kathmandu Metropolitancity, Ward No. 17, Khusibu, Naya Bazaar, Kathmandu, Nepal.

NFGF is an independent, non-governmental, non-political, and non-profit oriented social organization. The organization encompasses 1364 member groups, more than 350 VDC federations, and 34 district federations, and 75,000 members so far to raise the issues of small farmers. The Federation envisions “Self-reliant farmers, Prosperous federation” and its mission is “federation committee to insure the dignified life of farmer (small, marginalized poor and, landless) through organizing, empowering, advocacy and collaboration”. The Federation is committed to playing a leading role at the national level with inclusion and governance through available resource mobilization and diversification.

All Nepal Peasants’ Federation (APFA)
Location: Bag Bazar, Kathmandu, Nepal
Contact Person: Bhairab Raj Regmi, Chairperson / Shiva Hari Khanal
Phone: +977-1-4244234 / 9851199551
Fax: 4244234
E-mail: anpa4008@gmail.com / shivahari.khanal33@gmail.com

The All Nepal Peasants’ Federation (APFA) was established in 1951 AD. APFA defends farmers’ rights at the national and international levels. It promotes the concept of sustainable agriculture enabling sustainable farming practices and works for the mobilization of all sections of peasants’ populace in favor of genuine agrarian reform, democratization, and eradication of feudalism protests against anti-peasant activities & policies, promotes farm-culture, traditional wisdom, and biodiversity-oriented farm practices. It has a central committee of 19, and 7 provincial and local level committees and has 43,000 members. It is registered at the National Farmers’ Commission, Nepal in 2015 AD.

The main vision of the organization is repossession of the land, distribution of land to the landless, poor, lower-middle-class peasants applying ‘Land to Tiller’ policy, redistribution of special facilities, protection and welfare of the middle-class peasants, and gentle behavior with the rich farmers. APFA aims to establish itself as self-reliant, skilled, and capable of participating in the development process through politically strong, socially responsive, culturally sensitive, and economically viable farmers’ organizations and has an objective of developing a scientific and modern agricultural system in Nepal.

Movement on Innovative Agriculture Cooperative Limited (MIACO)
Location: Kalanki, Kathmandu, Nepal
Contact Person: Min Prasad Gaire, Chairperson
Phone: +977-1-4036366 / 9851072996
E-mail: ltdmiaco@gmail.com
Website: miaco.org.np

The Movement on Innovative Agriculture Cooperative Limited (MIACO) is one of the largest agricultural co-operatives which has been connecting to rural farmers/peasants through organizing in the cooperative for their development, providing different resources, knowledge and opportunities. It was established in 5th Magh, 2069 (2013) under the Cooperative Act 2048 B.S. of the Government of Nepal. MIACO directly coverage districts are 62, but reached in 72 districts through groups and members. It has 16,297 individual member, 1,100 group members and 112 offices all over the country.

The main objectives of the cooperative are: to promote entrepreneurship of middle and small-scale farmers under the sustainable agriculture development goal; transform traditional subsistence farming into commercial farming; facilitate to build professional skills and capacity of members’; to be self-reliant in agro-products, substitute the import and promote export; collection-safe storage, processing/packaging and marketing; to study and develop pocket and block area for farming and provide necessary support to involve members on it accordingly; to develop the capacity of members on technical skills with modern technologies and knowledge, run the farmer scientist program; coordinate, collaborate and partnership with other likeminded organizations etc. MIACO has 15,482 members. (10752 men and 4730 women members) in 640 groups. Out of these members, 45% are involved in production group.

All Nepal Live Stock Peasants Association (ANLSPA)
Location: New Baneshwar, Kathmandu, Nepal
Contact Person: Ram Bahadur Dhakal, Chairperson / Babu Ram Adhikari
Phone: 9846089513 / 9841340443
E-mail: baburamadikari982@gmail.com

The All Nepal Live Stock Peasants Association (ANLSPA) was established in 2003 with an aim of developing the livestock sector of Nepal and defending the rights of the livestock peasants. It is registered in National Farmers’ Commission, Nepal in 2015. It has 35 membered central committees, 15 membered secretariats, provincial and local committees. It has more than 15,000 members all over the country.

ANLPSA has various agenda and programs, some of them are policy formulation and intervention on livestock; program on grazing land, animal health and nutrition; livestock insurance; meat and milk management program, and solution of the unemployment problem. It also aims to contribute to achieving self-reliance on meat products in the country and promotes sustainable agriculture through farm wastes.

All Nepal Poultry Farmer Association (ANPFA)
Location: Chandragiri Municipality, Thankot, Kathmandu, Nepal
Contact Person: Ganesh Kunwar
Phone: 9851035023
E-mail: power-gbkunwar@yahoo.com / mkunwarganesh@gmail.com

The All Nepal Poultry Farmer Association (ANPFA) was established in 2003 and registered at National Farmers’ Commission, Nepal in 2015. Its central office is located in Kathmandu. It has 35 membered Central Committee and branch committees are in 40 districts. The total number of members is 15,000. Its main objectives/programs are: Identification of poultry farmers’ problems and find solutions; to conduct meetings and national conferences; to discuss the market mechanism inside and outside the country; and Mobilization and policy intervention on poultry issues. It took a vital initiative for bird insurance and bird flu relief for poultry farmers of Nepal.

Nepal Permaculture Group (NPG)
Location: GPO Box: 8132, Babarmahal, Kathmandu, Nepal
Contact Person: Prem Bahadur Thapa, Chairperson
Phone: +977-1-4252597 / 9851038571
Fax: +977-1-4252597 (Attn: NPG)
E-mail: earthcare@npg.org.np / npg.earthcare@gmail.com
Website: www.npg.org.np

The Nepal Permaculture Group (NPG) is a national-level network on sustainable agriculture, sustainable development, and Permaculture, non for profit-making, non-governmental, and development organization. It was established in 1992 and the year of registration is 1996. It was registered in the District Administration Office, Chitwan under the Social Registration Act of Nepal and also affiliated with Social Welfare Council, Nepal. It has 1,217 members all over the country. The NPG believes that happiness of life depends on better care of the earth and the environment, which will only be possible through a sustainable human society.

A sustainable and self-reliant society can be achieved through Permaculture philosophy, principles, and ethics. Permaculture is a door to a sustainable society. The major objectives of NPG are to establish an effective networking system amongst organizations and individuals working in the field of Permaculture and similar philosophy to achieve a sustainable and self-reliant society in Nepal. It has been working with a number of development stakeholders nationally and internationally including the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development, IFOAM, IPC, Perm found, and others.

Vegetable Farmers’ Association, Nepal (VFAN)
Location: Kalanki, Kathmandu, Nepal
Contact Person: Prem Baral, Chairperson / Satya Ram Giri
Phone: +977-9855024150, 9851169678
E-mail: pb550324@gmail.com / prembaral268@gmail.com / satyaramgiri6@gmail.com

The Vegetable Farmers’ Association, Nepal (VFAN) was established in 2003 BS. It has 35 membered central committee and 16,000 members all over the country. It has provincial, districts, municipal and rural municipal level committees. Its main objectives are: to enhance the commercial level vegetable production and marketing; marketing through agriculture cooperatives; policy formulation in favor of vegetable farmers; to promote organic vegetable and seed production and to create the self-dependency in vegetable to the country. It is currently in the processes of registration at National Farmers’ Commission, Nepal.

Nepal Agriculture Co-operatives Central Federation Ltd (NACCFL)
Location: Bakhundol, Lalitpur, Nepal
Contact Person: Khem Bahadur Pathak, Chairperson / Mina Pokharel
Phone: 01-5528074 / 01-5528073 / 01-5524346
E-mail: skbks.nepal@gmail.com / meenapokhrel99@gmail.com
Website: www.naccfl.org.np

The Nepal Agriculture Co-operatives Central Federation Ltd (NACCFL) is a leading national-level cooperative and registered at the Department of Cooperatives in the government of Nepal in 2008. However, its objectives, values, and efforts in poverty alleviation have been in effect in different forms and levels for over 35 years. NACCFL aims at providing appropriate financial and non-financial services to all the member organizations for their institutional development and for the socio-economic development of the deprived small farmers across the country. In this perspective, the federation has fixed ambitious but realistic objectives, which can be grouped into three categories: capacity building, policy advocacy, and cooperative network expansion. It has 71 district branches, 1066 member cooperatives, and 820,000 members all over the country. Its activities concentrate on Policy Advocacy, lobbying with government and linkage development with national and international organizations; Facilitating capacity development and livelihood enhancement for member organization and their members; Conducting regular research, and surveys; Facilitating value chain development in Seed, meat, goat, dairy, tea, fish, ginger, turmeric, chilly, etc.; Implement the various activities of Alternative/Renewable energy like Solar, biogas, bio briquette, micro-hydro, etc.; Providing technical support to member cooperatives for agriculture promotion and marketing; Providing banking and insurance service; and Cooperative Network Expansion all over the country.

It has received financial support from different partners viz; FAO, IFAD, ADB, USAID, GTZ, and many more. Later on, with the name Institutional Development Program (IDP) introduced with the financial support of the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) in 1987/1988 to transform SFDB into a sustainable institution; Small Farmer Cooperative Limited to provide legal status and gradually all the activities were handed over to the community.

Central Tea Cooperative Federation (CTCF)
Location: Ilam, Nepal
Contact Person: Govinda Dahal, Chairperson / Rabin Rai
Phone: +977-98027521034 / 9852680492 / 027-521714
E-mail: ctcfnepal@gmail.com / ctcfnepal@yahoo.com / info@ctcf.org.np
Website: www.ctcf.org.np

The Central Tea Cooperative Federation Nepal (CTCF) was established in the year 2010 A.D. and registered in the Department of Cooperatives to address farmers’ needs through tea cooperatives. CTCF is a member-based National apex body of tea farmer’s cooperatives and their District Federations. The Head office of the CTCF is at Ilam and contact office is located in Kathmandu and district offices are in Ilam, Panchtar, Dhankuta, and Therathum.

The vision of CTCF is towards sustainable tea cooperatives and prosperous farmers. CTCF works at the central level to improve the situation of the cooperatives. The goal of CTCF is to assist in developing a social, economic, and cultural federation of tea farmers. CTCF has currently 101 primary cooperatives at the grassroots level and 7,500 member households from Ilam, Panchthar, Dhankuta, Therathum, Jhapa, Morang, Udayapur, Bhojpur Lalitpur, Sankuwasava, Taplejung, Ramechap, and Solukhumbu districts including 5 districts cooperative federations, with more than 7,500 family households associated through their cooperatives.

All Nepal Dairy Farmer Association (ANDFA)
Location: Naya Baneshwor, Kathmandu, Nepal
Contact Person: Narayan Devkota, Chairperson / Ram Prasad Dahal
E-mail: cdcan.ktm@gmail.com
Phone: +977-1-4107242 / 9855069776 / 9861554997

The All Nepal Dairy Farmer Association (ANDFA) is a national level organization which was established in 2003. Its central office is located at Kathmandu, Baneshwor. It has a 35 membered central committee, 63 district committees with offices, and 100,000 members all over the country. It aims to work for the benefit of milk producer farmers through training, education, lobbying, representation, and quality maintenance of dairy products in the country. It has a significant role and contribution to employment generation, poverty reduction, and minimizing the gap between urban consumers and rural milk production. It also promotes sustainable agriculture. The organization is in the process of registration at the National Farmers’ Commission, Nepal.

Aviyan Laghubitta Bittiya Sanstha Limited (Aviyan Microfinance)
Location: Balkhu, Kathmandu, Nepal
Central Office: Province No-3, Paunati Municipality Ward No-4, Kavre
Contact Person: Babu Ram Thapa, Chairperson / Laxmishwor Devkota
Phone: +977-9851121367 / 011-441027
E-mail: aviyanlaghu@gmail.com
Website: www.aviyanlaghubitta.com

The Aviyan Laghubitta Bittiya Sanstha Limited (Aviyan Microfinance) is a national level financial institution, established in accordance with the Bank and Financial Institution Act 2073 and Company Act 2063. It was registered in 2075 (2018 AD) and licensed by Nepal Rastra Bank in 2076 (2019 AD). It started a financial transaction in 2076 BS (2019 AD).

Nepal Rastra Bank has categorized Aviyan Microfinance as a class ‘D financial institution. It has 35 branches, 3 regional offices, 380 transaction centers, and 4,190 members all over the country. It has the authority for savings, credit, and insurance. Farmers, indigenous peoples, marginal peoples, and rural people are their priority sectors.

Aviyan Microfinance has been actively participating in various events of agriculture policymaking, planning, implementing, and monitoring/evaluating overall activities that may affect the rights and livelihood of Nepalese peasants.