Greening for Gains: an Experience of Off-Season Vegetable Farming in Flood-Prone-Riverbeds in the Eastern Terai of Nepal / N. Khanal ; D.P. Pandey ; Gupta, K.P.    

Public ISBD in Fourth national workshop on horticulture , March 2-4, 2004 ; Abstracts     Title : Greening for Gains: an Experience of Off-Season Vegetable Farming in Flood-Prone-Riverbeds in the Eastern Terai of Nepal Material Type: printed text Authors: N. Khanal, Author ; D.P. Pandey, Author ; Gupta, K.P., Author Pagination: 267-274 p. Languages : English (eng) Keywords: adaptive  trials,  blocks,  comparative  advantage,  cucurbitaceous,  profitability Abstract: Numerous rivers in the terai of Nepal flood vast area of lands every year. Between the periods of two successive flooding seasons, the riverbeds mostly remain nude or sparsely covered with uneconomical grasses. In the effort of providing the poor and landless people with some agriculture-based livelihood options. FORWARD started some participatory adaptive trials and demonstrations on various cucurbitaceous vegetables on the riverbeds in Morang district since 2000 and gradually built on appropriate technological package over years. Now the package of practices has been thoroughly standardized and promoted in several blocks through group approach in Morang and Banke districts. Economic analysis has shown that growing cucurbitaceous vegetables on the riverbeds with the standard package of practices is highly remunerative. The profitability is attributed to the lower intensity of crop pests and diseases and to the early season productiou of crops that fetch higher price. This paper highlights the technical procedures, management strategies and comparative advafltages of the vegetable famJing on the riverbeds. Link for e-copy: http://elibrary.narc.gov.np/?r=510 in Fourth national workshop on horticulture , March 2-4, 2004 ; Abstracts     Greening for Gains: an Experience of Off-Season Vegetable Farming in Flood-Prone-Riverbeds in the Eastern Terai of Nepal [printed text] / N. Khanal, Author ; D.P. Pandey, Author ; Gupta, K.P., Author . - [s.d.] . - 267-274 p. Languages : English (eng) Keywords: adaptive  trials,  blocks,  comparative  advantage,  cucurbitaceous,  profitability Abstract: Numerous rivers in the terai of Nepal flood vast area of lands every year. Between the periods of two successive flooding seasons, the riverbeds mostly remain nude or sparsely covered with uneconomical grasses. In the effort of providing the poor and landless people with some agriculture-based livelihood options. FORWARD started some participatory adaptive trials and demonstrations on various cucurbitaceous vegetables on the riverbeds in Morang district since 2000 and gradually built on appropriate technological package over years. Now the package of practices has been thoroughly standardized and promoted in several blocks through group approach in Morang and Banke districts. Economic analysis has shown that growing cucurbitaceous vegetables on the riverbeds with the standard package of practices is highly remunerative. The profitability is attributed to the lower intensity of crop pests and diseases and to the early season productiou of crops that fetch higher price. This paper highlights the technical procedures, management strategies and comparative advafltages of the vegetable famJing on the riverbeds. Link for e-copy: http://elibrary.narc.gov.np/?r=510

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Leasehold Veg·erable Farming: An Innovative ·Approach for Improving · Livelihoods of Landless in the Terai region of Nepal / D.P. Acharya ; D.P. Pandey ; Khanal, N.P.    

Public ISBD in Proceedings of the fifth National Seminar on Horticulture June 9-10, 2008 / Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC) (Khumaltar, Lalitpur, Nepal)     Title : Leasehold Veg·erable Farming: An Innovative ·Approach for Improving · Livelihoods of Landless in the Terai region of Nepal Material Type: printed text Authors: D.P. Acharya, Author ; D.P. Pandey, Author ; Khanal, N.P., Author Pagination: 268-273 p. Languages : English (eng) Keywords: Landless  community,  livelihood  improvement,  leasehold  vegetable  farming Abstract: Leasehold vegetable farming is one of the most ·successful ·interventions being implemented by Plan/FORWARD partnership programme in Morang district for the last ten years. To know th~ socioeconomic iiJlplic;ations of thi~ initiative among the landless communities, this study was carried out. The information_ was collected from_ randomly selected 63 households using pre-tested structured questionnaires and further backed up with focus group discussions and field visits. The result of the study revealed that-vegetable farming in the leasehold blocks was highly remunerative to the landless families with an increase iFI cropping intensity and productivity. Improved health situation, better social status, child schooling, self-employment, increased women's participation in social works along with improv~ment. in the stattJs of basic amenities including houses, drinking water, toilets, telephones · were a~so . the important achievements of the intervention over the period: Ninety four percent of the household experienced the significant changes in the family health situ~tion; 97% indicated that their social status has been improved through vegetable farming and 98% of the ·respondents: reported that there was significant change in the food security status. Similarly, leasehold vegetable farming has created self-employment for the 98% of the landless families, and most of them are continuing this initiat(ve in their own way. About 25% of the beneficiaries have now become landowner holding 0.5 to 29 katthas of land. The result indicated that leasehold vegetable farming could be one of the best remunerative options to enhance the livelihoods of landless communities. Hence, this ·kind of initiative needs to be scaled out in a wider range for the benefits of the marginal peoples, especially the landless, through coordinated efforts of different government and non-government agencies with better understanding of g~ophysical suitability and market potential of the selected com_modities. Appropriate policy measures for the promotion of this type of initiative need to be formulated, endorsed a_rid imp!emented. Link for e-copy: http://elibrary.narc.gov.np/?r=197 in Proceedings of the fifth National Seminar on Horticulture June 9-10, 2008 / Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC) (Khumaltar, Lalitpur, Nepal)     Leasehold Veg·erable Farming: An Innovative ·Approach for Improving · Livelihoods of Landless in the Terai region of Nepal [printed text] / D.P. Acharya, Author ; D.P. Pandey, Author ; Khanal, N.P., Author . - [s.d.] . - 268-273 p. Languages : English (eng) Keywords: Landless  community,  livelihood  improvement,  leasehold  vegetable  farming Abstract: Leasehold vegetable farming is one of the most ·successful ·interventions being implemented by Plan/FORWARD partnership programme in Morang district for the last ten years. To know th~ socioeconomic iiJlplic;ations of thi~ initiative among the landless communities, this study was carried out. The information_ was collected from_ randomly selected 63 households using pre-tested structured questionnaires and further backed up with focus group discussions and field visits. The result of the study revealed that-vegetable farming in the leasehold blocks was highly remunerative to the landless families with an increase iFI cropping intensity and productivity. Improved health situation, better social status, child schooling, self-employment, increased women's participation in social works along with improv~ment. in the stattJs of basic amenities including houses, drinking water, toilets, telephones · were a~so . the important achievements of the intervention over the period: Ninety four percent of the household experienced the significant changes in the family health situ~tion; 97% indicated that their social status has been improved through vegetable farming and 98% of the ·respondents: reported that there was significant change in the food security status. Similarly, leasehold vegetable farming has created self-employment for the 98% of the landless families, and most of them are continuing this initiat(ve in their own way. About 25% of the beneficiaries have now become landowner holding 0.5 to 29 katthas of land. The result indicated that leasehold vegetable farming could be one of the best remunerative options to enhance the livelihoods of landless communities. Hence, this ·kind of initiative needs to be scaled out in a wider range for the benefits of the marginal peoples, especially the landless, through coordinated efforts of different government and non-government agencies with better understanding of g~ophysical suitability and market potential of the selected com_modities. Appropriate policy measures for the promotion of this type of initiative need to be formulated, endorsed a_rid imp!emented. Link for e-copy: http://elibrary.narc.gov.np/?r=197

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