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Career is an ultimate aim in everyone life. Being employed is a sign of money in your pocket, and money in your pocket is a sign of good life. Therefore, searching for a good life, people seek a career in their lives. Today, I am trying to help agricultural students looking for entry and senior-level careers in agriculture in Australia. There are two types of careers (employment) available in Agriculture here in Australia, i.e. research-level work and non-research work. There are two different positions for both types of work, i.e. entry-level and senior-level positions. Let's talk about the research work.  A. Research work in Agriculture  Research level positions are usually available as 'Research scientist', 'Research officer', Technical officer', 'Agronomist' and others. Research positions are considered highly technical positions; therefore, it is highly recommended to have some special skills to be eligible for research positions. The candidate has ...

  In technical studies, academic writing has an important value and place. Around the globe, technical writing has included in the syllabus for most of the technical subjects at University degrees. Nepal also has academic writing in some of the undergraduate and postgraduate studies in a major thesis, mini-thesis, report writing and proposal writing. These forms of writing are highly valued and most necessary for publications and to compete for a grant. However, I have found many issues with the trend and the format we follow  for academic writing in agriculture studies in Nepal. Therefore, universities should immediately improve the way they do for the following areas.

There are many Universities in Australia which are recognized for better agriculture studies. Many Nepalese students always seek better universities and institutes for higher studies in Australia. Some of the students make the way to Australia, and many others undulate between this and that and here and there because of not having the proper and right information. So, I am here to give you information about how Nepalese students can apply to Australian Universities for agriculture studies. The education system in Australia Australia has two different options for international students to pursue either undergraduate (bachelor) and postgraduate (masters) degree. If you do not want to do a thesis and research, you can choose the 'By course' option, and if you are interested in research and thesis, you can choose the 'By research option' for the same degree in Australia.  How to apply for the 'By course' option? 'By course' option is for core theoretical stu...

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

  There are many Universities in Australia which are recognized for better agriculture studies. Many of Nepalese students always seek better universities and institutes every year for higher studies in Australia. Some of the students make the way to Australia and many of other undulate between this and that and here and there because of not having proper and right information. So, I am here giving you information about how Nepalese students can apply in Australian Universities for agriculture studies Education system in Australia Australia has two different options for international students to pursue either undergraduate (bachelor) and postgraduate (masters) degree. Is you do not want to do thesis and research you can choose 'By course' option and if you are interested for research and thesis then you can choose 'By research option' for same degree in Australia.  How to apply for 'By course' option? 'By course' option is for core theoretical study in th...

Career is an ultimate aim in everyone life. Being employed is a sign of money in your pocket and money in your pocket is sign of good life. Therefore, in search of good life, people are always seeking career in their life. Today, I am trying to help agricultural students who are looking for  entry and senior level career in agriculture in Australia There are two different types of careers (employment) available in Agriculture here in Australia i.e. research level work and non-research work. For both type of work again there are two different levels of positions i.e. entry level and senior level position. Let's talk about the research work  A. Research work in Agriculture  Research level positions are usually available as 'Research scientist', 'Research officer', Technical officer', 'Agronomist' and others. Research positions are are considered as highly technical positions therefore, to be eligible for research positions it is highly recommended to have ...

  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 diffe...

What is the highest academic degree you can get in your life? The answer to this question is PhD (Doctor of Philosophy). However, everyone in this world can not achieve this degree because there are limited quotas available for PhD plus you should have excellent competences to get scholarship. As PhD is all practical and research based study it is therefore highly expensive if you thinking about to pay tuition fee yourself. In many cases, PhD is not even open for students who wants to pay fee because it is clear fact that student won't be able to pay fee. Therefore,.many rounds of application open every year in many countries.  Every year many students apply for PhD scholarship all around the world. Today, I am taking an example of Australia and discussing about how to apply for PhD in science in Australia.  A. Eligibility As PhD scholarship is highly competitive in Australia because of limited fund available and heavy volume of student want to apply for PhD scholarship. The r...

अस्ट्रेलियाको ग्रोसरीहरु स्टोरहरुमा खानेकुरा किन्न जाँदा खानेकुराको धेरै विविधता पाइन्छ। एउटै खानेकुराको पनि सयौं प्रकारहरु उपलब्ध हुन्छन; जसमा पनि तरकारी र फलफूलहरुका प्रकारहरु देख्दा नेपालका किसानहरु, तरकारी र फलफूल प्रशोधन उद्योगहरू र सरोकारवालाहरुले धेरै कुराहरु सिक्न जरुरि देखें। बिषेशत तरकारी र फलफुलहरु धेरै समयसम्म सामान्य तापमानमा स्टोर गर्न सकिंदैन, तसर्थ यी फलफूलहरु र तरकारीहरू खेर जान नदिन धेरै तरिकाले प्रशोधन गरेर विभिन्न तरिकाको खानेकुरामा अस्ट्रेलियाको ग्रोसरीहरु स्टोरहरुमा उपलब्ध छन्।   नेपालको सन्धर्भमा कुरा गर्दा हामीले दैनिक रुपमा धेरै खानेकुराहरु खेर फालिरहेका हुन्छौं। संगसंगै धेरै मात्रामा पोस्ट-हार्वेस्ट लस र पोस्ट-हार्वेस्ट लसको उचित व्यवस्थापन नभएको कारणले गर्दा पनि धेरै खानेकुराहरु खेर गईरहेका छन्। २०१२ मा गरिएको एक अनुसन्धानको आधार लिंदा नेपालमा तरकारी र फलफुलमा २०-५०% पोस्ट-हार्वेस्ट लस हुन्छ। एकातीर  लगभग एक चौथाई देखि आधा फसल चाहिं हार्वेस्ट पछि पनि खेर जाने रहेछ भने अर्को तीर एक चौथाई नेपाली जनताहरु कुपोषित छन् र ३०% भन्दा बढी जनताहरु गरिबीको ...

Better agriculture growth reflects better agriculture research and better research reflects more scientific publications . Poor agriculture research and poor agriculture development goes together. Talking about Nepali agriculture research, it does not have significant impact on agriculture development. The main reasons behind not focusing and mainstreaming agriculture research are 1) Agriculture research is considered as just an employment platform, 2) People only work for job they do not do research and 3) Poor prioritization for agriculture research from government  1) Agriculture research is just an employment platform      Image: NARC  Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC) is only the research organization of Nepal government. However, this organization is considered just an employment platform. Every year NARC open positions for scientists, officers and assistants, however, this is just an employment. These scientists and officers  have given rol...

 Finger millet is one of the neglected and indigenous crop. It is not well dominated food despite the fact that it is easy to grow, cultivate and adaptive in low rainfall condition. Even it is highly neglected food in Nepal, it has numerous health benefits. Many types of vitamins, minerals and fibres available in finger millet. Potassium is one of the main mineral available in finger millet which is best for our kidney health. Potassium is also help to improve nerve signaling  which allow our brain and our muscle to work together and work smoothly. Finger millet is excellent source of Vitamin B which is important for brain health, digestive health, eye health, cell division and even help in fatigue reduction. 

Use of pesticide had started in 1950s in Nepal which was DDT and it had used to eradicate malaria disease. Later on,  government had imported it for agricultural use. later the DDT era many other insecticides and pesticides had imported and used in agriculture. Since late 1990s, there was significant use of pesticides and insecticides occured in Nepalese agriculture. Coming from the 1990s to till date, use of pesticide is in increasing trend. The reported data shows that, Nepal has 169 pesticide firms registered for productions and there are 3034 pesticides are available in market.  Consumption rate of pesticide in Nepalese agriculture is 396 grams a.i per hectare. However, consumption is negligible in comparison to other countries. Analysing data shows that consumption rate in Nepal is directly proportional to how much Nepal import from foreign countries. Mostly pesticides in Nepal come from India; 90% of pesticides used in Nepal imported from India.  There is ...

Food is basic need of our life. We eat food for daily requirement of nutrients and energy. However, have you imagined the food we eating is killing us everyday? The food supposed to be for our healthy life, but it feels bad when we realise the food we eating is slow poison.  Looking back at great grandparent's and our current grandparent's life; our great grandparents and grandparents used to grow food for themselves without using any chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Life was hard but healthy at that time. Since then time has changed a lot and a lot to our current generation; from traditional farming system to modern cultivation system, subsistence to commercialize farming and important one is laziness and unhealthy flashy competition among people. People had started thinking farm work is low level work, started choosing foreign employment over farming and rest of family started migrating over cities as a flashy competition. It had created active labour scarcity in farming ...