Agrotech

As we all know, agriculture has major contribution to national GDP in Nepal. Approximately 66% of Nepalese people are engaged directly in agriculture for first source of income. In addition, more than 50% people have agriculture as second source of income in Nepal. However, our agriculture system is just subsistent since long back ago and mostly integrated with livestocks. In general, agriculture is significant economic contributor as well as an important daily subsistent way to live in Nepal.  The importance of agriculture has been understood by our ancestors during early civilization. The tradition of agriculture and farming has been inherited since that time and today's generation is still following the similar tradition and tools. It is very much known fact  that, agriculture is backbone of Nepalese economy, socio-economy, cultures and values.  The importance of agriculture in Nepal can not be easily ignored and in another hand, agricultural importance has been unders...

Food security in Nepal is always come as big concern.  Our agricultural system is recognized as  non-productive system. It is because that our farming system is highly rainfed and marginalized. Most of the farming system is still depending on natural rainfall and traditional way of faring. These  Problems  are limiting our agricultural system to be productive. Definitely farming under very low inputs such as fertilizers, irrigation and nutrient would not result in better output. Because of this reason, we are suffering from food insecurity since long time ago.   Photo: Rural women harvesting vegetable form her farm,  Photo source: USAID Even Nepal has taken significant steps to reduce the food insecurity in past several years, the hunger and malnutrition rate had not gone down. Most of the Nepalese women and children are still malnourished till date.  Meanwhile COVID-19 🦠 came as an important economic cause to slow down every aspect of economy i...

Beside the profuse potential for agriculture based tourism in Nepal, there are challenges to flourish the for agro-tourism and it's sound development.              Photo: Amaltari homestay, source: Kinley ragan  Understanding ( कमजोर बुझाइ ) Many of the farming community in Nepal are residing on remote village and remotely access the education. The farming system is going in the same traditional way. Local people are perceiving that, this is it. Level of understanding to improve current farming system in economic way can be found as minimal among local community. Whoever even understand the importance of agriculture, they do not want to work as it is 'muddy work'. The very first thing to progress towards development is our 'understanding' and 'will thought'. If we do not 'understand' it does not make any sense for development later.  Labour scarcity (कामदार हरुको अभाब) Most of the local youth and active and literate population are in abroad f...

 There are many  Problems  for agricultural development in Nepal. I have classified them based on my understanding and experiences A. Understanding level🧠 - Poor concept for agri-entrepreneurship -Understood/perceived agriculture is low class job/work Photo: Example of an agri-entrepreneurship, Source: Proactive Investors Australia B. Policy and Implementation  level -Poor agri-research facilities available from Government to solve farmer's problem  -Negligible concept to identify farmer's problem  -Very ineffective implementation for cultivable land promotion and protection policy: there is not control mechanism for land fragmentation and promoting and protecting cultivable land; no policy to utilize all cultivable land and not to left barren  -Government research is oriented for only screening objective, do not have problem solving objective in research -Government is oriented for subsistent cluster based improvement program  -No such commercia...

Since ancient time, agriculture came on spotlight as god gift to sustain daily life, the only way to live. Cultivation of wild crops, hit-and-trial for identifying edible crops, plus identifying best method to cultivate were major enhancement happened at that time. In this way, our ancient forefather/ancestors have paved the way for today's modern agricultural system. In addition, since the ancient time, we have history that human existence became successful because of the agriculture. And in today's modern era agriculture has same value for human being. We can not imagine human life without agriculture, agriculture and human life goes together.  Comparing from ancient agricultural development in this world, everything has been changed now. Today's agricultural development is far more developed in developed countries. Even in the countries where they are highly concerned with other materialistic development,  countries where they do not have enough cultivable land and enoug...