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Moderated conference on rural advisory services for family farms: 1-18 December 2014

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This is from Puruswattam Rauniyar. I am an undergraduate level student studying at the Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science (IAAS), Paklihawa Campus, Rupendehi, Nepal.



Why the agricultural development of a country like Nepal is worse?



Nepal is an agricultural country. About 65% of the people of this country are involved in agriculture. But the country's production has not yet fulfilled the demand of the agricultural products inside the country. The terai (plain) regions of Nepal are called the bread basket of the country. Most of the agricultural farms are in the rural areas. Illiteracy is another main problem. The agriculture occupation is not considered as the profession but it is regarded as their ancestors assets. Especially, the rural farmers having one hectare of land are never engaged in the commercialization and they grow the seasonal crops like in the months of the June/July-November and after then cultivate potato, oilseed crops and wheat and this cultivation is on the subsistence basis. But the farmers having more than one hectare of land having found in the cultivation of the cash crops like sugarcane. 



The problems start with the farmers during the cultivation practices. The Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC) has recommended the variety of agricultural crops according to the suitability for the different regions of Nepal. But the rural farmers, especially of the terai, which are close to the open boarder with India are using the Indian variety of rice in their fields. Similarly, the illiterate farmers often don't use the recommended dose of the fertilizers in their fields, many of them didn't know the services and the role of District Agricultural Development Office (DADO), or even its location! (The DADO is a governmental organization and the services, policy and plans of the government of Nepal are implemented through this organization). The farmers, in the lack of knowledge of marketing and also the suitable market, sell their goods to the middleman. The middleman takes double benefits as compared to the farmers. Actually the role and the status of the farmers have not been addressed in our country. The attitude of the people is like this, Farmers are poor, illiterate and low standard of living as a result they have become a dominated part of this region. The main problem arose due to the lack of compatible plans and policy of the government which would address the problems of farmers. The execution of the plan is very poor at the implementation level.  



Puruswattam Rauniyar, 

Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science (IAAS)

Paklihawa Campus.

Nepal

Member at Youth Endeavour for Sustainable Agriculture (YES-Agriculture)

Phone number: +977-9847540967

Email: puruswattamrauniyar31 (at) gmail.com



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