A Case of Wheat Seed in Saptari

It had been about two years when I rejoined Saptari in 5th December 2013. Saptari District is one of the eastern Terai district of Nepal, which is food basket area of Nepal. Nevertheless, persistent drought since last four year has resulted this district as a food deficit district, in spite of its good soil and accessibility of other production inputs.  Saptari district...

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किन आकर्षण छैन चुनावको?

आजभोलि नेपालमा सवै व्यस्त छन् । दैनिक प्रशाशनिक एवम् अन्य सरकारी कार्यहरु भने ठप्प प्राय छन् । सेवाग्राहि सेवा लिन आउन भ्याएका छैनन् । सरकारी संयन्त्र सेवाग्राहीलाई सेवा दिन सक्ने स्थितिमा छैनन् । किसान खेति भित्राउनमा व्यस्त, नेता र कार्यकर्ता चुनाव प्रचारमा व्यस्त अनि प्रशाशनिक संयन्त्र एवम् सुरक्षा निकायहरु चुनाव गराउनेमा व्यस्त । यस्तै व्यस्तता वीच चुनाव हुन्छ, हुन्न , भएमा कस्ले जित्छ भन्नेजस्ता वहसहरु सर्वत्र फैलिएको छ । अलग्गै पार्टिगत...

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Corn price rebound prospects

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Agriculture is Highly Prioritized in Political Manifestos

It would be little bit odd to say political parties are making lofty commitments for upcoming Constitutional Assembly (CA) election of Nepal, as elected Constitutional Assembly would primarily assigned for constitution making process. However, the commitments  from all political parties through their manifesto is encouraging to agriculture and related sector. All political parties have realized the...

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Nepal's State of Hunger is Improving

International Food Policy Research Institute ( IFPRI) has recently published Global Hunger Index 2013.Nepal Comes under category of serious with score of 17.3. Off-course  its not a satisfactory level, however, the achievement from past is at a good trend. GHI was 28.0 in 1990 (i.e. at alarming stage) ,27.3 in 1995, 25.3 in 2000, 22.3 in 2005, which has come...

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Waste not, Want not

According to UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimated global food loss and wastage is at 1.3 billion tonnes a year. Whereas, very few and only a part of post harvest loss are found to have analysed or studied in Nepal. IRIN news highlights that, the amount of food wasted is shared almost equally between industrialized and developing countries. But while developing country losses are largely the result of pests, diseases, poor storage...

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Poem : Agriculture Development in Nepal

This is My Poem ( Title: Agriculture Development in Nepal) , which won  third Prize in a Competition organized on the occasion of 10th Civil Service Day of Nepal ( 06 Sep 2013). Gf]kfnsf] s[lif ljsf; Tf[ltof+z u|fx:y pTkfbg b'O{ ltxfO{sf] /f]huf/L of]ubfg a'emf} s[lifsf] cGTo u/f} ef]sd/L . s'kf]if0fn] cfs|fGt k|ltWjlg gu'lGhpg st} klg k|tfl8t hgdfg;n]...

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National-Proud to Agriculture is Worthless

My Article Published in Nagarik National Daily (19 August, 2013) ...

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Chapter III ( Production and Cost)

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Chapter II ( Economic principles in Food Industries)

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Final Draft of Agriculture Development Strategy of Nepal Needs Your Feedback

Agriculture Development Strategy ( ADS) is 20 years long term plan for Agricultural Sector of Nepal. Its a successive plan of Agriculture Prospective Plan ( APP) and will enacted after termination of APP in 2015. Ministry of Agricultural Development (MoAD) has released the final draft of Agriculture Development Strategy ( ADS) on 13 August 2013. The prime objective of its release is for final feedback collection. It's been shared through MoAD website...

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Changing Pattern of Agriculture Gross Domestic Product(AGDP) in Nepal

The composition of National Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Gross National product (GNP) is changing year after year. Contribution of new sector like remittance (which now contributes around 20 percent of national Income) is increasing at increasing rate whereas the share of sector like agriculture is decreasing at  almost constant rate. About three decade's ago( In 1980 ) the contribution of Agriculture sector was about...

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