Tag: #farming
Articles tagged with #farming
Farm subsidies: money down the drain
Despite billions spent in improving productivity, Nepal’s agriculture is still underperforming
Helping farmers who help themselves
Nepal’s mountain farmers are already adapting to the impacts of climate change on their own
Flying and farming
For an airline executive, Birendra Basnet has his feet firmly planted in Nepal’s soil
Strength in numbers for female farmers
A female collective in a remote village is a powerful model for independence and income
Greening a concrete jungle
Vertical hydroponics can revolutionise farming in Nepal's urban areas
“My children shouldn't be farmers”
Is it any surprise that farmers in Chitwan are agitating?
Climate change hits Himalayan rice
Nepali farmers come together to preserve local seed varieties that can cope with climate induced crop failures
Money grows on trees here
An enterprising couple has made Palpa the lemon capital of Nepal
Climate smart Ramkali Mahato
38-year-old Ramkali Mahato from Babargunj, Sarlahi district has a keen interest in learning climate sensitive farming techniques. She has leased…
Nepal’s politicians take up farming
Nep Bahadur Chaudhary and his wife Rupa Chaudhary at their banana plantation.Democracy is expensive and funding political activities can be…
Made in Nepal peanut butter in Japan
A Japanese social entrepreneur brings skills and income to Khotang’s peanut farmers by finding export market
First drought, then downpour
All photos: SMITA MAGAR“How the dry earth must have sizzled today, kanchhi!” my sister-in-law Birmati said in delight after heavy rain finally…
Nepal marks rice planting day
Farming communities across Nepal came out by their hundreds of thousands to transplant rice seedings on Tuesday, which is officially National…
Raining rice
All photos and videos: AMIT MACHAMASIEarly and heavy monsoon rains in Nepal have caused death and destruction, but farmers in Kathmandu Valley…
Help for resilient farming
As part of the Government of Nepal and international partners’ 'Green, Resilient and Inclusive Development (GRID)' approach, Ministry of Foreign…
Now, Nepal’s herbal oil in Europe
All photos and videos: MUKESH POKHRELWomen members of the Chisapani Community Forest in Bardaghat in this district in Nepal’s Tarai plains used…
Corruption and Nepal’s chronic fertiliser crisis
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAIt is nothing new that Nepal’s farmers this year faced an acute fertiliser shortage. That there were kickbacks involved is…
Returnees need help to get back to farming
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the fragility of Nepal’s economy, especially in falling agricultural production and the reliance on migrant…
Work for food
Upkeep of agriculture during the lockdown will keep Nepal fed, make the country more self-reliant and resilient
Back to the future of farming
Photo: LISA CHOEGYALThe COVID-19 lockdown by the government is an effort at ‘primary protection’, and builds on the experience of how other…
Nepal villages cope with climate-induced floods
Farmers in the Tarai displaced by floods return to their homes, better protected for the next disaster
Migrant worker finds farming in Nepal more rewarding
Bishnu Bhujel has returned home to farm and rescue his family from bankruptcy
Saving Nepal’s last wild dogs
Wild dogs get a bad press in Nepal, almost as bad as hyenas. The fact that the Nepali word for the wild dog (bwanso) is also used to refer to…
Waiting till the cows come home
Photo: KUNDA DIXITThe first thing one notices these days while travelling by road in the Tarai are hundreds of cattle blocking the East-West…