fragmented subsistence farming, poor technical knowledge, and lack of irrigation facilities.

Erratic weather
patterns, pest epidemics, and lack of fertilizers and improved seeds exacerbate the problem.

 Government programs to introduce irrigation facilities and fertilizers have proved inadequate,
their delivery hampered by the mountainous terrain.
 Agriculture in Nepal has long been based on subsistence farming, particularly in the hilly
regions where peasants derive their living from fragmented plots of land cultivated in difficult
conditions.
 Increased agricultural activity has placed tremendous stress on the fragile ecosystems of the
mountains, with severe deforestation leading to erosion and flooding that threatens the
livelihoods of farmers throughout the country.
 Insufficient land to the producers
 Agent monopoly in selling (Black marketing)
 Insufficient technical assistance
 Poor management of farm, forest land and other resources is damaging both environment and
economy
 Lack of people’s participation in decision making especially at local level
 Productive resources are not in the hands of productive forces
 Minimal investment in research has hampered efforts to meet the challenges of
increasingly volatile weather, said Gauchan, especially given Nepal’s agro-ecological
diversity.
 Less than 0.4 percent of the agriculture sector’s GDP is spent on research, far short of the
internationally recommended 1 percent.

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