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D ear friends Following is the web link to access online agriculture related resources. This is very useful. It has compilation of more than 150 web links related to agriculture. A Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by Internet expert, author, keynote speaker and consultant Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. for monitoring agriculture resources and sites on the Internet. http://www.agricultureresources.info/ Hope you people will enjoy surfing online information on agriculture. Good Luck

Image via Wikipedia Coffee farming is a flourishing business in Nepal . The hill and mountain areas are  very suitable for organic coffee. Generally, coffee is grown from 800 to 1600 msl in Nepal. Coffee is grown by small holders in mid hill areas. However, there are some big producer who have leased land from government for coffee farming. Nepalese coffee belongs to the arabica speciality category. The wet and semi-wet processing techniques are  popular among farmers. At present, Nepal exports green bean coffee to Japan, USA, and Some EU country. Major exporter Royal Everest coffee meal Plantec Nepal Related articles by Zemanta Why does coffee do so good in Colombia? (greenanswers.com) Javalution Coffee Company Inks Sales and Marketing Alliance with Richmont (eon.businesswire.com) What is "bird friendly" coffee? (greenanswers.com) Poll: What's the best coffee for camping? (seattletimes.nwsource.com) Coders guid...

I n Nepal, agriculture in mid and high hill is organic by default. I would prefer to term it a natural agricultural product rather than organic agricultural product. Organic needs an artificial human interferences to make it organic in real sense. While natural agriculture is totally tuned with nature. It is a outcome of natural opportunity and constraints of that specific location without artificial human interferences. Following is a documentary on organic farming in Nepal.

Its always a matter of choice among lots of technological options in agriculture. The "right choice should help boost production to its maximum extent. The choice is broadly between biological vs physical technology. Generally argued, physical technology like machineries are the appropriate one for land abundant country like America while vice versa is true for the land scarce country like Nepal.This gives the importance of research priority at country level. Nepal should focus on biological technology to enhance the productive capability. The emphasis on increasing labor productivity is relatively not an appropriate option. Agricultural growth in Nepal is hardly able to meet the ever increasing population growth. There is no option other than to increase the productive capability of land through input intensification, biological technology advancement and efficiency increment. also read.. http://earth-policy.net/Books/PlanB_ch8_landprod.pdf

small drip irrigation These are the feasible technologies for small farmers in mid hill areas where water scarcity is one of the bottlenecks in farming business. It does not require big investment. Only 1500-2000 NRs is sufficient to buy drip irrigation.

Khajura, Banke, Nepal weekly haat bazar Eventhough there is a market access to big market centers, rural household may not be able to take opportunity of this facility due to low volume of marketable surplus. So, small farmers may not able to harness the opportunity of market access due to diseconomies in transportation. Two options- 1. Create collection center/ marketing cooperatives at rural areas and connect to the big market center 2. Create weekly market (haat bazar)

It is widely acclaimed that agriculture is a strategic option to tackle poverty in  the low income countries.  Agricultural productivity depends on mainly two sources- first is the input intensification and the second is the total factor productivity . Factor productivity also depends on the efficiency change and technological change. Input intensification- do low income countries able to increase the input  use so that it will play a significant role in the production increment? problem---- 1. LIC has to import major inputs like fertilizer, machines and others 2. Poor farmers in LIC may not be able to invest on such input 3. Inputs can be intensified only in the potential production area. It is entirely not appropriate to assume that input use will be increased in the area where basic social infrastructures are inadequate.