About Lesson
- Nepal is an agricultural country and therefore its economy is heavily based on it,
- Agriculture has got prime importance in each five-year plan,
- Agriculture is the way of life for the Nepalese people,
- Small scale and traditional farming,
- Subsistence farming for the majority of the people
- Population dimension
- Support services (Research, Training, Extension, Infrastructure and Marketing)
- Topography (fragile mountain)
- Resource depletion
- Declining or stagnant productivity,
- Open border situations,
- Narrower outlook of the farming communities
- Rapid change in the sectoral structure in the economy (reduced AGDP from 66% to 38% during the last 20 years)
- Emerging threat to agricultural economy
- Issue of sustainable agricultural development in Nepal
