a) Priority Inputs

i) Fertilizer

• Increase per unit area of nutrient availability
• Timely supply of fertilizer and educate farmers to the appropriate use and profitability etc.
• 101 thousand nutrient metric tons in 1994/95 to 628 thousand nutrient metric tons in 2014/15.

ii) Irrigation

• Increased irrigated area in the terai from 43% at the beginning of the plan and 86% of the arable land area by the end of the plan period
• The area under year round surface irrigation system will increased by more than 50% and area underground water irrigation by almost six fold.

iii) Road and power

• Agricultural roads, rural electrification
• Under APP rate of road construction would have rise to an average of 515 km/year, which roughly twice the rate of the 1980s
• Electricity demand is expected to rise 679 megawatt (MW) by the end of the plan period.

iv) Technology

• Improved technology brings increased specialization and requires low transaction costs.
• Research and extension

b) Priority outputs

i) Livestock

• Targets to grow livestock sector from the 2.64 percent to 6.25 percent by the end of the plan period.
• The share of livestock sector to AGDP will increase from 31 to 33 percent during the same period.

ii) High value crops

• Citrus-throughout the mid-hills
• Apple-in the inner Himalayan zones
• Off-season vegetable in the hills as well as the terai
• Vegetable and flower seed – in hills and mountains
• Beekeeping products in the hills and mountains
• Row silk in the hills

iii) Agribusiness

• Nepali entrepreneurs clearly recognize what they urgently need from the public sector:
• Better maintained roads and a larger grid of agricultural roads
• Reliable supplies of electricity
• Appropriate research.

iv) Forestry

• Community forestry in the hills and mountains
• Commercial management in the terai
• Private and leasehold forestry
• Training, research and development.