Introduction

• 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