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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...