This paper explored the potentiality of poultry manure to use as fertilizer in agricultural practices through using descriptive statistics and probit regression model. Result showed that Poultry manure was comparatively more economical than chemical fertilizers regarding same amount of NPK availability for crop production. Sampled households’ age, income, agriculture as main occupation, credit access and membership had significantly determined the level of the application of poultry manure. Farmers perceived that affordable price and soil fertility improvement were the main reasons behind applying it. However, volatization, leaching, improper decomposition, poor market infrastructure and transportation and branding were identified as the major problems associated with its use. Study also revealed that willingness to pay for processed poultry manure was 4 to 7 times higher than what farmers were paying for raw poultry manure. Therefore, either the government or private firms should take initiative in production of processed poultry in Nepal.Journal of the Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science.Vol. 33-34, 2015, Page: 259-268
Lentil (Lens esculenta) is considered a major food crop in terms of food and nutrition security in Nepal and is primarily grown in the lowland Terai and hilly region of Nepal. This study aimed to evaluate prospects and potentiality of lentil focusing on nutrition and trade perspectives. Secondary data was used for assessing the area of production, yield, coefficient of variation, instability index, and trade specialization index. The area for lentil production increased slightly in one decade, however its production has increased significantly during this period (2009-2019) The import value has soared at the rate of 22.7% per annum whereas the export value has decreased with 17% per annum. The trade specialization index was discovered 0.13, which indicates that the lentil is in the growth phase. The study provides sufficient information that it is necessary to surge the production and productivity to decrease the escalating imports while making the country independent in lentil production with an increased investment in research and development. Additionally, it is suggested to strength the Research and Development (R & D) in order to improve the productivity of lentil. More focus should be given in disseminating packages of Practices (POP). More focus needs to be given to develop policies and implement to encourage commercialization of lentil in order to meet the domestic demand and increase export.
A study was carried out to analyze the economics of fish production and marketing in Dang district of Nepal. Structured survey was done with 75 respondents (45 producers, 5 wholesalers, 10 retailers, and 15 consumers) in three different sites of Dang district (viz: Lamahi Municipality, Rapti Rural Municipality and Gadhawa Rural Municipality). The initial investment, cost of production and returns, production function, price spread,and marketing margin, and ranking of production and marketing problems of fish were done by index ranking techniques. Financial analysis showed that the total initial investment per hectare of fishpond was found to be NRs. 9, 68,394 with the annual production cost of NRs. 6, 93,483. The total return was found to be NRs. 932,088 and net profit realized per hectare was NRs. 238,604. Out of total cost, about 73.70% was variable cost and the remaining 26.30% was fixed cost. Of the total variable cost, the cost of feed (58.63%) was significantly higher followed by the cost of fingerlings (12.94%), labor (11.37%), manure and fertilizer cost (8.33%) fuel/ energy (4.46%) and maintenance cost (4.27%) respectively. The benefit cost ratio (B/C ratio) was found to be 1.82 which implies that the fish enterprise was found to be profitable in the study area. The research also revealed that the producer’s share was 78.17% with price spread of 71.57 and marketing efficiency of 90.81%. The value sum of the estimated parameters associated with all the inputs is 0.52 which indicates the decreasing return to scale. Lack of technological know-how and unavailability of inputs on time are the major production problems. Inefficient price information system and competition with the Indian fish are the major marketing problems. Thus, for sustainable production and marketing of fish government should focus primarily on technological dissemination and better pricing policy.
Potassium is an essential nutrient for potato due to its direct effects on the growth, yield and quality of potato tubers. This study was carried out at Lamahi, Dang Nepal during winter season of 2018. Two potato variety (Local and Cardinal) and five levels of potassium (30, 40, 60, 80 and 100 kg K2O/ha) were evaluated in two factorial randomized block design with three replications. The application of potassium at 100 kg/ha produced significantly highest plant canopy, stem diameter and leaf length for the both varieties. The highest tuber number per plant (10.3 for Local and 17.6 for cardinal) and tuber weight (19.7 g for Local and 49 g for Cardinal) were obtained with the application of 100 kg K2O/ha. The highest gross margin was found with this level of potassium. Therefore, farmers should apply 100 kg K2O to potato to achieve maximum production and benefit.
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