�Limited impact of faulty Garima seeds� Kathmandu, December 27 Against the anticipation that the faulty Garima brand paddy which did not yield rice grains in the country’s western region would hit national paddy production this year, the preliminary paddy production report of the... 28 Dec, 2019
Agro subsidies should be made productive, predictable, sustainable and transparent Despite being an agricultural nation, Nepal imports food items worth billions of rupees every year. Farming practices in the country are still traditional and newer technologies are yet to be adopted. Moreover, people still follow subsistence type of... 12 Nov, 2019
Producer and supplier to be held accountable Following faulty seed supply, government certain to miss paddy production target this year Kathmandu, November 5 The government has made a U-turn from its earlier announcement that it will compensate farmers for the losses they had to bear for... 06 Nov, 2019
Paddy plantation completed on 10.5 % of arable land Kathmandu, June 29 Paddy plantation has been carried out on 10.5 per cent of 1.55 million hectares of arable land across the country as of today. According to Ministry of Agriculture, Land Management and Cooperatives (MoALMC), commercial... 30 Jun, 2018
Will celebrations lead to higher paddy output? Kathmandu, June 29 The government started celebrating the 15th day of Asar (popularly called ‘Asar Pandhra’) as the National Paddy Day or National Rice Plantation Day since 2005 in a bid to increase the country’s paddy production and... 30 Jun, 2018
Govt fails to meet paddy production target Kathmandu, December 20 The government has missed the paddy production target of 5.4 million metric tonnes in the ongoing fiscal year. Though the government earlier was optimistic that paddy production in 2017-18 would not come down despite... 21 Dec, 2017
Paddy production up ... and so is rice import Kathmandu, November 22 At a time when the government has been rejoicing over the increasing production of paddy in recent years, surging production of the crop has not been able to bring down the import of rice accordingly. The country’s recent... 23 Nov, 2017
Paddy output unlikely to come down despite monsoon havoc Kathmandu, October 30 With country’s farmers busy cutting paddy, the Ministry of Agricultural Development (MoAD) has said that paddy production in the ongoing fiscal year is unlikely to come down though unfavourable monsoon had inundated many... Horoscopes 31 Oct, 2017
Govt claims it can achieve targeted growth rate of 7.2pc Record high paddy production and Rs 30bn election expenses seen as major stimulants Kathmandu, October 10 At a time when multilateral development partners — World Bank and Asian Development Bank — have made forecasts that the growth... 11 Oct, 2017
MoAD sets paddy production target of 5.4m metric tonnes Kathmandu, June 28 The government has projected a growth of 3.25 per cent in the production of paddy in the next fiscal year. Officials of the Ministry of Agricultural Development (MoAD) today informed that a target has been set to produce... 29 Jun, 2017
