Scope of organic farming

1.Geographical advantage

• Diversified ecological and climatic variation which support for the cultivation of different crops in different season.
• Still, most of the farmers in the high hills and majority of them in the mid hills are not using inorganic chemicals in their farm.
• Farmers can produce different commercial organic products targeted to international as well as national.

2. Availability of cheap labor

• There are a large number of small and marginalized farmers’ involved in agriculture in Nepal.
• The labour is cheaper as compare to other developed countries.
• Due to use of cheap labour, the cost of final product will be cheaper and that product can easily compete in the market.

3. Exporting opportunity

• Nepal, as a member of WTO, can have good opportunities in the global markets.
• Good quality organic agricultural products can be marketed globally.
• The production outputs from traditional farming alone could not fully satisfy.
• Due to diversified agroecology in the country, a number of organic fruits, vegetables and food crops can be grown and export to India, China, Japan, Bangladesh and other American and European countries.
• When we export a large number of organic products from the country, we can earn millions of rupees from the foreign country.

4. Priority to organic products

• Consumers as well as farmers are becoming more and more aware of organic products from environment and health point of view.
• Organic products are safe to the health and environment.
• In view of these the attention of scientists, planners, politicians, industrialists etc have been attracted towards organic farming for which there are consumers who are ready to pay higher price for organic products.
• Their demand has been increasing day by day.

5. Good experience of organic farming

• Farmer can use their indigenous knowledge and experiences easily in organic farming.
• The farmers need not depend on the external inputs to produce organic commodities in the future.

6. Development of infrastructures

• Development of high way, agricultural roads for transportation.
• Telephone for communication, television and radios for advertisement and good marketing facilities etc.
• Increases the scope of organic production of vegetables, coffee, tea, zinger, and field crops in Nepal.

7. Employment opportunity

• Large number of peoples will be involved in different activities like seed production, processing, marketing etc.

8. Development of organic enterprises /associations

• Now the number of private enterprises and associations are actively involved in development of organic farming in our country.
• Mainly these are concentrated in accessible areas both for production and distribution of organic products.