Agriculture in NepaL

Bc. Hom Bahadur Magar

Bachelor's thesis

Abstract:

Despites its prodigious potentiality and remarkable contribution in Gross Domestic Product (GDP), agriculture is one of the most overlooked sectors in Nepal. Development of agriculture is inching to progress in past decades. Due to continious shrinking in yields of major food crops, Nepal is now pre-dominantly dependent on food imports. This paper is a study about agriculture in Nepal. The main purpose of the study is to see the current agricultural condition, problems, effect of climate change and to find the ways it can undertake intensification without environmental or social damage in Nepal. The study is further divided into emperical and theoritical part. Thoeritical part will relay on standard academic publications through literature review and the emperical part will relay on interviews data. An open-ended semi-structured survey interview has been conducted among two group of farmers (small-scale holders and large-scale holder) between July to August 2021. Inductive content analysis has been used and several themes were identified as key to collect data. This study illustrates that the current situation of agriculture in Nepal is still substandard. Lacking basic requirements such as proper irrigation, quality seed, fertilizer and pesticide appeared to be the prime factors affecting agricultural productivity. Effort from the government has seen ineffective causing uneven & irregular distribution of aids/support. This study also finds evidence as from hills of Mid-Western Nepal to discussions of the feminization of agriculture's complicated procedures. Climate change on the other hand has a huge impact in farming and is happening now, there is a need to identify and adapt to its effects to deal with the agriculture industry's vulnerability.

Keywords

Agriculture, Nepal, Climate Change, Intensification of Agriculture, Organic Production

Language used: English

Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 30. 11. 2021

Thesis defence

• Supervisor: Ing. Inna Čábelková, Ph.D.

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Faculty of Economics and Management

Bachelor programme / field:
Economics Policy and Administration / Business Administration