Agrotech

 As we all know Nepali agriculture is mostly rainfed agriculture. Irrigation is one of the major challenges in many places all over the country. Climate change and global warming have blamed for water scarcity for a long. However, the knowledge and understanding of natural water management could be the biggest problem for poor irrigation and drinking water in Nepal. There is no debate that Nepal is rich in natural water resources, you can find many small streams and rivers in hilly areas. Furthermore, there are many water catchment areas in hills and mountains. However, the water from these resources such as rivers and streams in catchment areas is being wasted without any use. On a seasonal basis, such as for rice transplantation season, these water resources often used, but they do not use for water collection and use for the future.  How can we manage natural water resources? A. Harvesting and collecting natural water from the catchment areas In Nepal, the wasted water from small st

Nepal has mostly cereal dominated agriculture system in every agro-ecological regions. Because of the higher preference to cereals, other agricultural products systems are usually underrated   in Nepal. Floriculture is one of the underrated agriculture practice in Nepal and it is though as seasonal business only, however it has multiple economic benefits which can boost up the economic condition of growers throughout the year from many ways.    A. Fresh flowers Fresh flowers have great cultural and religious significance in Nepal. Every worship, cultural rituals, social rituals, function and funeral, it can not go without fresh flowers. In most of the fresh flower consumptions time such as Tihar, Nepal always have to import heavily from foreign country. In tihar 2018 AD, Nepal  had imported 2 million USD worth fresh flowers from neighbouring countries. Therefore, there is an significant opportunity to earn money by producing fresh flowers year round. Furthermore, production of fresh fl

According to the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data (2016), only 4.6 million people are food secure in Nepal, it indicates that only 15-16% of Nepalese have easy access to foods. According to DHS data  20 percent of households mildly food-insecure, 22 percent moderately food-insecure, and 10 percent severely food-insecure in Nepal.  Among the household suffering food insecurity are simultaneously suffering from malnutrition.  Even though, Nepal is agricultural country, food security is still a burning question and a challenge. Many challenges at ground level (such as labour scarcity, poor technical knowledge and traditional tools of farming)  and in policy level (such as poor infrastructures, poor policy, poor implementation of policies) are main causes behind this unfortunate situation in Nepali agriculture. Whatever the matter, however, many Nepali are still under hunger and poverty.  In addition, the geographic condition is another level of different opportunity in Nepal to ex

  Continued from............ Aren't we too late to understand that the subject matter of our agricultural curriculum needs to be up-to-date and should support employability and business skills? Image: Different universities and institutions teaching agriculture in Nepal 2. Course content  The agriculture studies still running with same old outdated information. You easily can found a IAAS alumni from last 10 years studied same content than today's content in subjects. Time has changed and brought significant meaningful changes in our agriculture system.  We do have new scope in our agriculture, however, we are still studying same old scope which is not highly relevant to current time . I still remember from my BSC. in agriculture where I have studied 'Nepal has low productivity for everything so we have to increase production to meet food security' as a scope for most of the subjects, hasn't this scope been changed?  It is universal scope of agriculture to meet food