Impacts on Nepalese Agriculture

• Agriculture is the most important livelihood sector and provides a substantial proportion of rural incomes and employment opportunities.
• Rapid agricultural development along with improvement of environment conservation is a pre-requisite to alleviate rural poverty, the development of agriculture will to a large extent determine the alleviation or aggravation of poverty in the Hindu-kusH region.
• The country is susceptible to disasters, including flash floods, slow-melting, ice avalanches in the mountains, and droughts and floods in the Terai.
• The rising temperature and emission of CO2 to some extent is helpful in production by enhancing photosynthetic processes, water use efficiency, and shortening the physiological period.
• The impacts on agriculture are a decrease in productive land in some regions and an increase in some other regions. So, it is a complex problem for the world (Pathak et. al., 2003)
• Rising CO2 promotes plant growth and if the CO2 gas doubles, yields will increase by 40%.