Globally, there are nearly 500 million farm households or farming families, most of which are small and have limited capacity to adapt to climate change.

Three years ago, Ram Chandra Kurmi, a farmer from the town of Gaidahawa in southern Nepal, abandoned his small vegetable plot ...

As most sugar mills have finished cane crushing, they plan to shut down their factories before Friday’s Holi festival in ...

The farm-use monorail system is being eyed for use in the construction of hydraulic power plants in the Himalayas. In Nepal, where nearly 80 percent of the land is mountainous, construction and ...

Lawmakers and supporters have made efforts to decriminalize marijuana in Nepal. A petition was filed in January 2020 to legalize the farming and use of marijuana, but progress since then has stalled. ...

In the Himalayas of Nepal, snow leopards often prey on livestock and face retaliation from humans. A group of Nepali women have developed a simple solution to help keep both livestock and the ...

Nepal, March 4 -- Loans for commercial fruit farming will include a "general loan loss" provision of only one percent from now on. Nepal Rastra Bank has issued unified directives to Class A ...

Pine trees in Nepal’s Palpa. Image by Abhaya Raj Joshi. Ganga Thapa, a farmer in Sarlahi’s Ishworpur municipality, said the eucalyptus plants on her farm are like “moisture-sucking monsters.” ...

For loans with a grace period of four years, the provision sets the general loan loss at 0.25 percent in the first year, 0.50 ...