Three years ago, Ram Chandra Kurmi, a farmer from the town of Gaidahawa in southern Nepal, abandoned his small vegetable plot ...
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 ...
As most sugar mills have finished cane crushing, they plan to shut down their factories before Friday’s Holi festival in ...
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.
However, there are growing challenges to meat exports with the continuous decline in livestock farming in Nepal. According to statistics from Nepal, the number of cows and buffaloes has ...
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.” ...
One of the reasons the company got involved with mitsumata cultivation was that the president at the time had participated in a volunteer project to dig wells in farming villages in Nepal.
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 ...