Agrobiodiversity and its Conservation in Nepal

Joshi, Bal Krishna; Gorkhali, Neena Amatya; Pradhan, N. K.; Ghimire, Krishna Hari; Gotame, Tek Prasad; Kc, Prenil; Mainali, Ram Prasad; Karkee, Ajaya; Paneru, R. B.

doi:10.3126/jnarc.v6i0.28111

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“…Nepal is the -micro-museum‖ of world climate, ranging from subtropical to arctic within a short 150 to 250 km north-south distance; and there is a great variety of micro-climate -both resulted diverse land use and agroecological diversity. Nepal has three ecological regions: the terai, the hills and the mountains and 12 agroecosystems (Joshi et al, 2020). Despite such climatic diversity, agriculture largely based on traditional practices, and in such case adoption of agroforestry may provide high returns.…”

Section: Agroecological Diversitymentioning

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Agroforestry for mountain development: Prospects, challenges and ways forward in Nepal

Atreya

Subedi

Ghimire

et al. 2021

Arch. Agric. Environ. Sci.

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Most of the agroforestry systems (AFS) in Nepal are traditional, and deliberate management of trees, crops and livestock as an integrated and interactive agroecosystem, albeit its enormous socio-economic and ecological benefits, is limited. The objective of this review paper is to understand the prospects, analyze challenges and suggest practical solution for promoting agroforestry as a viable system balancing economic, social and environmental concerns. We develop this paper based on practical experience on the ground and an in-depth review of relevant literature and highlights the prospects, challenges and ways forward of AFS, both farm-based and forest-based, in Nepal. Nepal has enormous agroecological diversity, suitable land availability for agroforestry, traditional knowledge, skill and labor forces, and huge prospects of adapting new technologies and developing market systems, especially considering emerging markets for developing remunerative and environment friendly value chains. However, the prospective value chains of the mountain agroforestry products face many challenges, including i) socio-economic constraints of the farmers mainly because of high initial adoption costs, limited information on benefit-cost of agroforestry practices, limited knowledge on full benefits of agroforestry, and limited markets and marketing information; ii) institutional constraints because of unclear policy to support agroforestry, the lack of extension services and undefined administrative boundaries; and iii) inadequate scientific knowledge, expertise and technologies to address management complexity of agroforestry system. We therefore suggest having a scan of those challenges and find out solutions, especially for promoting growth and competitiveness of the sector with poverty reduction strategy ensuring availability of food, fuel, fodder and employment opportunity for local communities. The paper provides a few successful cases of AFS and finally suggests ways forward to promote AFS and a business model which could help achieve the untapped potentials for enhancing income and employment opportunity, achieving food and nutrition security, and building sustainable land use systems.

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Section: Agroecological Diversitymentioning

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Agroforestry for mountain development: Prospects, challenges and ways forward in Nepal

Atreya

Subedi

Ghimire

et al. 2021

Arch. Agric. Environ. Sci.

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“…Journal of Agriculture and Natural Resources (2020) 3(2): 67-81 ISSN: 2661-6270 (Print), ISSN: 2661-6289 (Online) DOI: https://doi.org/10.3126/janr.v3i2.32482 grow a huge number of plant genetic resources (PGR), placing the country in 49 th position in the world for agro-biodiversity (Joshi et al, 2018;Joshi et al, 2020). Further, flowering plant diversity in the country is huge, accounting for two percentage of the global record (Kindlmann, 2011).…”

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“…Around 50% of agricultural genetic diversity has been lost already in Nepal (Joshi et al, 2020). This loss called genetic erosion could be attributed due to change in land use, preference of farmers towards new and improved seeds and many more other anthropogenic activities.…”

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Collaborative exploration and collection of native plant genetic resources as assisted by agrobiodiversity fair

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Karkee

Neupane³

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J. Agric. Nat. Res.

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This article describes the agrobiodiversity fair aided exploration and collection expedition of native plant genetic resources in southern Lalitpur, jointly organized by the National Agriculture Genetic Resources Centre (NAGRC) and Group of Helping Hands (SAHAS) Nepal. In-district one-day agrobiodiversity fairs were organized in February and December month of 2019, altogether two times, and these agrobiodiversity fairs were used as a tool to explore plant genetic resources found in Bagmati and Mahankal Rural Municipalities of Lalitpur district. To collect these explored genetic resources during agrobiodiversity fairs, the joint field expedition, key informant survey, diversity rich farmers discussion was used as a collection tool. The present study explored, inventoried, collected and conserved 148 accessions of 44 crop species, the highest number (18 accessions) was of chayote followed by 10 accessions each of soybean, cowpea and maize and 9 accessions of common bean. Collections are generally new and unique. Many landraces, mostly from rice (13 landraces) were identified as extinct from the surveyed areas and few are under extinction mainly due to attraction of farmers to new high yielding varieties. The collected species with orthodox seeds were tested for germination ability and those that passed a minimum of 85% germination, were preserved in seedbank of NAGRC. NAGRC plans to characterize these accessions in the coming seasons depending upon the season of crop growing. The current expedition collected eight species for which mode of propagation is vegetative or those for which seed storage behavior falls under intermediate mode. NAGRC has been started expanding field genebank coverage using these accessions.

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“…Buffalo is a major livestock commodity among 35 livestock species (Joshi et al 2020) in Nepal where buffalo population in-country is estimated to be 5.30 million (MLD, 2018/19). Buffalo is an important livestock commodity of Nepal, it alone contributes about 63% and 52 % of national annual milk and meat production respectively (MoALD, 2018/19).…”

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Genetic and Non-Genetic Factors on Productive and Reproductive Performance of Indigenous Buffalo

Paneru

Dhungana

Kanu

et al. 2021

J. Nep. Agric. Res. Counc.

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Indigenous buffalo is the black gold of Nepal because of its important contribution to the livelihood of the rural farmers and agricultural economy of the country. A study was done to investigate the performance of indigenous buffalo found in high-hill of the western districts of Nepal. Further, effect of genetic and non-genetic factors on productive and reproductive performance of indigenous buffalo was accessed. This study was done in four districts: Myagdi, Baglung, Parbat and Kaski for 2 consecutive years from 2016 to 2017. A semi-structured and questionnaire survey format was prepared and was filled with verbal answers from 142 farmers on a different aspect of buffalo farming. Further, recording formats were distributed to enumerators for the recording of different information that cannot be collected from the survey. Total of 201 indigenous buffaloes (132 Lime and 69 Parkote) and minimum of 25 buffaloes in each site were measured for determining productive and reproductive performance. Further, 65 collected milk samples were subjected to Animal Nutrition Laboratory of DoAR, Lumle for determination of milk composition. Results of the findings revealed that there was a high variation in productive and reproductive performance of indigenous buffalo. Lactation milk yield of Lime buffalo was observed slightly higher (1180.90 ± 27.94 L) than Parkote buffalo (1170.56 ± 42.29 L) but was non-significant (p>0.05). Lactation yield of indigenous buffalo in Ramja, Parbat (1254.73±38.43 L) was observed significantly higher (P<0.002) than other research locations. Genetic evaluation of indigenous buffaloes and selection of better performers help in increasing productivity and lead to conservation by competitive advantage of indigenous buffaloes. Non-genetic factors play an important role in the productive and reproductive performance of indigenous buffalo and need to account for these effects to select buffalo for its genetic merit.

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Agrobiodiversity and its Conservation in Nepal

Cited by 35 publications

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Agroforestry for mountain development: Prospects, challenges and ways forward in Nepal

Agroforestry for mountain development: Prospects, challenges and ways forward in Nepal

Collaborative exploration and collection of native plant genetic resources as assisted by agrobiodiversity fair

Genetic and Non-Genetic Factors on Productive and Reproductive Performance of Indigenous Buffalo

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