Food security occurs when all people are able to access enough safe and nutritious food to meet their requirements for a healthy life, in ways the planet can sustain into the future. However, food security faces a number of challenges due to low productivity from agriculture. Agriculture productivity has been adversely affected due to increasing […]
Nepal is a landlocked country and borders with China in the north and India in the south, east, and west. Nepal has a diverse geography, including subalpine forested hills and fertile plains. The ongoing global pandemic of COVID19 is caused by SARS-CoV-2. After the outbreak of COVID19 in Wuhan city, China in December 2019, it […]
कृषि आनुवंशिक स्रोत मानव जीवनको अस्तित्वको आधार हो । समयको साथ विभिन्न आनुवंशिक स्रोतको विकास गरिएको छ र अधिकांश अवस्थामा यी आनुवंशिक स्रोतहरु स्थानीय क्षेत्रहरु भित्र नै केन्द्रित रहेका छन्। यद्यपि आधुनिक प्रजातिका बीउप्रति बढ्दै गएको कृषकको मोहले जैविक विविधता कम हुने प्रक्रिया जारी नै छ। उच्च उत्पादन दिने आधुनिक बीउले बहु-महत्त्व भएका स्थानीय प्रजातिहरूलाई […]
नेपाल एक कृषि प्रधान देश हो । नेपालमा धेरै जसो खेती निर्वाहमुखी हुन्छ । यो परम्परागत हिसाबले नै चली आएको हो । यसै कारण नेपालका करिब ६५% मानिसहरु कृषि पेसामा आबद्ध भएपनि कृषिजन्य वस्तुको उत्पादन भने सिमित मात्रामा भइरहेको पाइन्छ । कृषि विकास मन्त्रालयबाट प्रकाशित वार्षिक प्रतिवेदनमा पनि प्रष्ट देखिन्छ कि कुल क्षेत्रफलको करिब ३०९१ […]
The life of every crop starts with a seed. Seed is a fertilized mature ovule that possesses an embryonic plant, stored food material (endosperm) & a protective coat (testa), which is viable and has the capacity to germinate. Small but powerful, it has the ability to feed the world. But the productivity has been decreased […]
Food security is defined as the availability of food and one`s access to it. A household is considered food secure when its occupants do not live in hunger or fear of starvation. The World Food Summit of 1996 defined food security as existing” when all people at all times have access to sufficient, safe, nutritious […]
How will we remember the time that we are living now? May be, it will be remembered for many years to come as one of the uncertainty. The word is facing unpredictable crisis with COVID-19, which is bringing new challenges, including to small holder farmers, seed system and seed security response. While the pandemic has […]
Agriculture is the mainstay of the economy, providing livelihoods for over 80 per cent of the population and generating around one-third of GDP but still Nepal struggles to generate enough food for people of their country. In Nepal, farming has always been a subsistent practice among farmers’ as they have very limited access to new […]
The world has been reeling under the havoc created by a new disease called Covid-19, originated in Wuhan, China. This pandemic outbreak has become a global disease which is killing millions of the people all around the world and death toll is still raising. Nepal is not an exception to this worldwide pandemic. Located between […]
Genetic purity refers to true to type or percentage or ratio of contamination of seed caused by undesired genetic varieties or species. The production of genetically pure seed requires high technical skills and comparatively heavy financial investment. One of the major objective to maintain genetic purity is to produce hybrid seed and quality seed. Quality […]
