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Scientific communication skills include reading, writing and oral presentation. For students studying agricultural science, scientific communication skills always play an important role because agriculture is a science and technical subject; where we have to write reports, thesis and to give presentation in scientific level.  Therefore, I am discussing here how can we improve each of the communication skills for agricultural science.  A. Reading skill When we write thesis, research reports and research proposal, we have to find scientific papers and read it. What is the current trend is, find random paper and 'copy and paste' the lines or phrases where it match to your writing. But it is wrong, we have to find the research papers first and then there are few tips to do better reading 1. Skimming  We have many more papers to read therefore, we can not always manage to read whole papers at all time. Therefore, we should be able to skim. Skimming include reading ab...

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 the ...

Technical students have many presentation of their research, reports, methods and results. To make our technical presentation more qualitative, impressive and interesting, we have to take care of certain points while making our powerpoints. Powerpoint is one of the common program for making these type of presentations. Therefore, I am discussing here the important tips for making quality powerpoints for technical presentations Selecting background In professional and technical presentation, we have to be cautious selecting background colour in MS powerpoint. The background should be very clear and plain. In most of the cases it s recommended to use white plain background because texts will be clearly visible in white background. Furthermore we can use black background as well, however, we have to select contrasting text colour, for instant in white background black text would be contrasting and vice-versa.  Selecting text colour In technical presentation we should be cautious selec...

Nepal is rich in food diversity; people eat many foods with many different ways of cooking them. Though we have different types of food and different ways of cooking, the most important that never goes missing is spices. A range of local herbs and some perennial plants are commonly used as a spice for flavoring and taste enhancing the foods. The mostly consumed spices ranges are cumin, coriender, turmeric, zinger, garlic, cloves, black pepper, cardamom and bay leaves; silimarly the most common herbs are mints, panch aule, gurjo and many more. The use of these spices are inheriting from our ancestors since long and long ago.  Unknowningly we are using these types of spice from long time ago, however, people are realizing the importance of these spices. Image: Spices of Nepal A. Spices have health benefits Many spices we use in our daily life have multiple health benefits such as protecting heart health, boosting immunity, skin health and eye health. The unique identity of the himala...

 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...

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. Furthe...

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 op...