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  DHANKAULI, KAPILVASTU -  Meghnath Kewat, 45, is a hard working farmer of Dhankauli 8, Dharampur, Kapilvastu district of Nepal. He lives in a joint family of three brothers having 21 number of family members. The family had a small piece of land having an area of less than a hectare. They...

ACHHAM -The Government of Nepal has mobilized funds received Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) to improve the food security and livelihoods of the people in the hills and mountains of the Far and Midwest regions of Nepal. The most of the people of hilly and mountainous districts of Far...

KATHMANDU - The Asia-Pacific Plant Protection Commission (APPPC) in collaboration with the Government of Nepalorganized a 4-day Asia Pacific workshop on Empowering Farmers through Integrated Pest Management Farmers Field School (IPM FFS) in Support of Sustainable Intensification of Crop Production in the context of Climate Change in Kathmandu from 27...

SYANGJA - A yearlong FAO tele-food project Community Based Off-season Vegetable Production (TDF/14/NEP/001) in Syangja successfully completed in the month July 2016. The project is focused to smallholder farmers for producing safe and quality products, especially off-season vegetables in Autumn, Winter and Spring and improved maize seed production in summer season with...

Kathmandu- The Ministry of Forest and Soil Conservation of the Government of Nepal and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) jointly organized a National Inception Workshop on the project “Enhancing Rural Livelihoods in Underutilized/abandoned Agricultural Land through Agro-forestry” in Kathmandu on 12 December 2016. FAO, in collaboration...