Agrotech

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 ...

 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