Nepal's agribusiness and agro-entrepreneurship policy

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Dominance of like Minded Policy

Policy and plans are foundation of development. No stones should be upturned while developing and implementing those. Nevertheless, these are outcome of very few consultations and are garden variety of like minded bunches of people.  This has created many flaws in our policy and credibility of policy making process has severely questioned. Agriculture also is not an exception.

We are receptive. Yes, we should, to gain a level which we are dreaming since many years. Does it means we should be yes man, Off-course not. I mean to say yes man because we are early adopter of everything, we become member of multinational organisation very hastily, we sign on petition even without knowing the meaning and we commit to institutionalize new global and national policies without any preparatory works. This has generated many hindrances in progress. This has taken our arduous effort just to sustain what we have rather than improve on ground reality.

Why like minded are dominating our policy process. This is result of fear among the policy makers. Somebody if is iconoclastic will not be given chance to discuss, work and formulate new policies.  If people of same background, same ideology and similar type of working nature sit together for invention, there would be easy, faster but useless and uncritical output. This is exactly, what is happening in policy formulation.

Unless, we can't respect and welcome those who raise questions, we can't progress. This has to be understood clearly. This is first step toward development in any sector, including agriculture.

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