Agrotech

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 ...

 In technical studies academic writing has an important value and place. Around the globe, technical writing have included in syllabus for most of the technical subjects at University degrees. Nepal also has academic writing in some of the undergraduate and postgraduate studies in the form of 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 grant as well. However, I have found many issues with the trend and i n format we following for academic writing in agriculture studies in Nepal. Therefore, universities should immediately act to improve the way they doing for following areas

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...