About Lesson
Constraints of Horticulture Development in Nepal
- Poverty
- Majority of the people belongs to rural community with low economic status
- Comparatively horticultural crops needs intensive care and management involving heavy investment
- High initial investment cannot be afford by the poor people
- Agriculture development bank and other local cooperatives provide loan to the farmers but such credit investment and interest is not adequate
- Small land holding and fragmentation of land
- The average land holding size per family is only 1.84 ha
- Fruit trees require high spacing as compare to other crops, there fore majority of people cannot show interest
- Agricultural land is fragmented for residental purposes randomly in terai, inner terai of the country
- Parents owned land is fragmented and distributed to their sons and daughter which also become problems in commercial horticulture
- Infrastructure problems
- Majority of highway are seasonal in rural areas and are muddy in condition
- Lack storage facilities (cold storage)
- Market problems
- Lack of advancement in farm mechanization
- Policy constraints
- Problems in price fixation mechanism of horticulture produce
- Low subsidy in inputs of horticulture crops
- Lack of appropriate insurance policy
- Complex and unnecessary procedure to obtain loan and credits from banking institutions and cooperatives
- Timely unavailability of labors
- Geographical situations
- Climatic misfortunes
- Low numbers of technical manpower
- Lack of proper and timely availability of inputs and plant protection measures
- Less attraction of people especially young people towards horticulture crop farming
- Problems in teaching research and extension