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Pesticide use in Nepal Agriculture

Improper Pesticide use: a contemporary issue of Nepal Pesticides are any substance used to protect crop against insects, weeds, fungi and other pests.  In Nepal improper and unmanaged Pesticide has become one of the major issue in the present context. As in Nepal most of farmers are unaware about dose, proper use and banned pesticides. Still there are so many pesticides which are banned in European countries but are used freely in Nepal. Nepal government has recently banned 21 pesticide which were extremely hazardous to environment and living organisms. Unfortunately most of the pesticides which were banned ten year ago in Nepal can also be found easily in different Agro vet of Nepal and are used by farmers. Among the banned pesticide most of them are Persistent Organic Pollutant (POP) pesticides. These POP chemicals don’t break easily and can remain for long time in environment. They are also lipophilic i.e. soluble in fat and hence these get accumulated in body fat of animal in...

Indoor gardening : key to live with fresh and healthy environment

INDOOR Gardening: one of the most cruicial things for present polluted cites Indoor gardening refers to the process of growing plant indoor.Nowadays this is gaining major priority in urban areas for its air purification and decorative purpose. With the increase in pollution,unmanaged urbaniztion its demand and necessity has increased in this present context. Indoor gardening has become most crucial in most of the cites of our country  like kathmandu as Kathmandu has been ranked the third most polluted city in the world, according to Pollution Index 2016. These indoor plants removes  polluntant from air like trichloroethane,formaldehyde,sulphur dioxide,nitrogen dioxide, benzene, ammonia etc and other suspended particles. These pollutant are toxic to human as well as animals as these gasses in air causes irritation to nose, nausea, headache,dizziness,liver kidney damage(xylene), cardiovascular problems (So2) etc in human beings In 1980s a American scientist Dr.Bill wolverto...

bottle gardening: one of the best way to tackcle Plastic pollution

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BOTTLE GARDENING Bottle Gadrdening refers to the process of planting plants either in plastic or glass bottle for different purpose like decoration,consumption etc.Here in this article we will discuss on cultivation practice of bottle gardening in plastic bottles.Bottle gardening can be used for the plantation of different types of shallow rotted plants vegetables, flowers,grasses etc. Crop like Onion, garlic , corriander etc can be succesfully grown. Main Objectives Reuse of the old ,torn out plastic bottle which are usually thrown out. Grow useful plant either indoor or outdoor Save enviromental degradation as plastic is non degradable. For the decoration of garden wall. In order to eat organic vegetables. Requirement for bottle gardening Old (porous) torn out plastic bottle (may be mineral water bottle, cold drink bottles etc) seed materials for plant fertile soil scissor Steps for bottle gardening For bottle gardening at first we need to pre...

Importance and scope of vegetables production in Nepal

Importance of vegetable Human nutrition: vegetable are considered as main component of human balance diet since the time immemorial. Source of supplementary income: vegetable production makes effective use of land. Generally vegetable crops are short duration crop and 3-4 crops can be harvested in a year from same land. Employment importance: Vegetable production are more labor intensive than other agricultural production so more farmers can be employed. Important for Nepali farmers: As in Nepal majority of the farmers fall in marginal categories and vegetable production can be done in small marginal lands. Export potential: vegetable production have great export potential as Nepal is surrounded by two densely populated country India and china.So vegetable can be easily exported when its demand is high. Agrobased industries importance: It supports development of different Agrobased industries as many vegetables like tomato,pea etc are raw material. Role in National economy Medi...
IMPROPER POST HARVEST STORAGE CAUSES LOSSES IN ONION FARMING Onion is considered as a staple vegetable in the diet among Nepalese family. There is sustainable demand of onion throughout the year in Nepal. Although the farmers are honestly working but due to lack of technical knowledge in field of Postharvest management they are not getting optimum price and it leads to disappointment among the farmer day by day. Unscientific Post harvest is being troublesome due to fluctuation of price in onion market. Although, the demand of the onion remains same throughout the year except in Sep to Nov. As in our country most of our national festival fall in this period like Dashain, Tihar etc but in this period supply of onion to market is low because of off season for onion production so demand gets highly increased. Domestic production of country fails to fulfil demand of onion even in on season of onion production. More than 50% of onion is imported from India and other country according t...
Eutrophication: A Contemporary Issue of Global World How measurement of dissolved oxygen indicate quality of water and water pollution? we may have seen clear clean flowing stream or pond gets changed into green colur coverd  water surface or sometime it even gets changed to marshy land,so  how these happend? how polluting river or pond with sweage,agricultural fertilizer and other artifical man made things effects human,domestic animal,tourism fishing revenue? how these pollution decreases fish population in pond? what are physical indicator of eutrophication? how tempr effect types of fish in water body? At first we need to understand dissolved oxygen.It is amount of oxygen dissolved i.e. homogeneously mixed with water and this is the oxygen avilable to aquatic animals inorder to survive i.e. for respiration.This dissolved oxygen is also effected by temperature as water molecules get vibrated on heating so high tempr contain less dissolved oxygen and it cont...