Agribusiness in Nepal

Factors influencing agriculture marketing Author: Govindarasan FACTORS INFLUENCING AGRICULTURE MARKETING By Dr. M. Govindarasan . MA., M.Phil., Phd. Project Associate, Department of Humanities and Social Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Chennai - 600 036. and K.Valarmathi, Full Time Phd Research Scholar, Department of Economics, Presidency Colloge, Chennai 600 005. India's farming crisis The distress of farmers in India can be traced back to the introduction of technology-led, capital intensive farming in the heyday of the Green Revolution. With the advent of 'economic liberalisation' and the globalisation of trade, this distress has been aggravated. Unfair rules of the multilateral global trading regime have depressed global and domestic prices, and denied Indian farmers adequate remunerative prices. The poor farmer is squeezed between high input costs and low returns. Credit obtained from formal or informal banking systems is unable to bail him out of th...

The medicinal plant is going to be established in joint venture of Nepali and South Korean investors.The industry will use medicinal plants available in Nepal as raw materials for their product. Himalayan BioTech of Nepal and Korean investor are investing Rs. 400 million for establishment of this company. There will be 30 percent contribution of Himalayan Biotech and rest will be funded by Koreans. According to Mr.Janardan Lamichheni ,consultant of Himalayan Biotech,the Plant will be established with in year."we are looking for the location in Sitapaila in Kathmandu and in Bhaktapur but the location is not fixed yet."said Mr. Lamichheni. The plant will produce beauty products and  food additives.These products will be produced by using herbal plants . The company is planning to produce beauty products in first phase and food additives in second phase and allopathic drugs in third phase.

World bank kept Nepal in the blacklist as it tops the lowest capacity for getting loan form international market. The report published by world bank in Saturday kept Nepal in CCC+ .according to report CCC+ means high default risk (High risk for loan) .There will be problem in foreign direct investment and loans after rated as CCC+. The rating is done by taking the reference of the gross national income(GNI),gross national product(GDP),export /loan ratio,deposit for import,movement of growth rate,devaluation of money fulfillment of legal obligations are the basis of the evaluation which indicated Nepal as poorest country and kept in black list . But the government officials claims that the condition of Nepal is not poor as said by World bank.according to Mr. Keshav Acharya,ex-senior consultant of ministry of finance said that we have some weakness and it is not good reason for keeping in black list. he claims that due to lack of rule of law in the country may have bad impression in the...

The Graduate Seminar of Business Development Plan of MBA IVth trimester was succesfully completed in August 23,2011,here is some of the snapshot of the program. Mr.Anil Gupta Mr.Anuesh Mr.Arbin Mr.Basant Mr.Binay Mr.Buddhi Mr..Dipesh Mr.Jitendra Mr.Bishnu Mrs.Kalpana Mrs.Kritana MBA 5th Batch with Guest MBA 5th Batch with Guest Mr.Dipendra Mrs.Shanti Ms.Nina Mr.Nischal Mr.Nitesh Mr.Pradeep Mr.Ram Prasad Mr.Ramindra Mr.Rishabh Mr.Sandesh In Tea Break Mr.Santosh Ms.Samjhana Ms.Manju Ms.Shanti Devi Mr.Surya Mrs.Yasodha Mr.Rabindra Ghimere And Mr.Shree Ram Adhikari Thanks speeches by Mr.Bishnu & Ms. Nina Speech by Mr.Shree Ram Adhikari

The people from developing countries  became more prone to food crisis due to increase prices of food commodity world wide.The price of food became 33 percent high in this July than at the same time of last year. According to the  food commodity price monitoring report recently published by world bank  indicate that unstable price of food commodity increased the risk of food crisis for poor people in the developing nations. The Report shows that there is  increase of price in maize by 84 percent,sugar by 62 percent,barley by 55 percent and soya bean by 47 percent  and all together there is increase of aggregate price by 33 percent. The price of crude oil is increased by 45 percent in compared to July 2010 which caused 67 increase in production cost . The report shows that the  world wide food storage  is decreasing and the instability in the price of  sugar,rice and petroleum may cause undetectable effect on coming months.The report ...

Source:Kantipur Daily 2068/04/30 In 1997 B.S,Mr.Damber Bahadur Rai of Surkhim VDC of Taplejung,the district joining the border with India ,brought the saplings of cardamom when he return back to home in his holidays. He was the army of Gorkha battalion in India .he got that saplings as present from his commander for his good job in the army. To show the family, he planted those cardamom near by the house and he returned back to the battalion . thereafter his parents spread the cardamom all over the village. A 75 years old Mr. Gopi Paudel from Sikaicha worked in the cardamom orchard in his young days in Sikkim,  which was owned by one of the Lepcha Merchant of  Sikkim .he worked there for 2 years and returned with the bag full of cardamom  saplings. According to district agriculture development office ,it was believed that cardamom was first entered in Ilam from Sikkim.In fiscal year 2064/65 there was export of 1 thousand 9 hundred  and 92 Mt. cardamom from the...

After the establishment of the first commercial bank, Nepal bank limited and some other industries like Biratnagar jute mill and juddha match factory ,etc in 1992 B.S,rana priminister juddha shasher brought the concept of insurance policy in Nepal ,which was the stepping stone in the development of modern insurance   in Nepal. There was no insurance corporation registered in Nepal before 2004 B.S   and the Indian insurance company was operating its business in Nepal . In 2004 B.S   Nepal bima and chalani company was established to provide insurance of trade between india and Nepal .later on Nepal bank ltd invested for establishment of Nepal insurance and transport company in 2016 B.S. which was renamed as Nepal insurance company ltd . Therefore at the time, the insurance was heavily dependent on the agents of Indian companies mainly Indian life insurance corporation ,oriented fire and general insurance company ,ruby general insurance company and sterling general insuran...

According to small and cottage industry   department   there was registration of 15 thousand 4 hundred and 75   services company   in the   capital city fiscal 2066-67   . the number is 3 thousand 6 hundred 44   more than in production industry .there was registration of only   11 thousand 8 hundred 31 company   in production sector in three district   of Kathmandu valley The government has not entertain the registration of production company in municipality area of the Kathmandu valley. hats why there is more service sector industry   registered in Kathmandu valley. Mainly Hotel   and restaurant ,beauty parlor ,travel agency, consultancy are more registered in this time.it is mainly due to the prohibition in the establishment of   production industry   in municipality are in the Kathmandu valley. There were   registrations of   2 lakh 29 thousand 6 hundred 83   industry after 2046. Among them 1...

In the history of sericulture development in Nepal, the initiation is done by the then rana priminister Chandra shamsher in 1911 A.D. at the beginning the mulberry sericulture was initiated by using multivoltine Indian silk sericulture which was experimented in Birgung with the help of Indian sericulture specialist . Thereafter ,in 1940, another rana priminister judha shamsher continued the sericulture development bu organizing silkworm rearing exhibition in Kathmandu with the help of Indian specialist .in 1950 mulberry sapling were planted in godawori . After the establishment of cottage industry department, it initiated exhibition of sericulture in its own compound in 1953-54.for that purpose the seed of silkworm were imported from India. In 1967-68 Japanese experts conducted pre feasibility study and it was followed by feasibility study by republic of Korea   for the development of sericulture in Nepal .those studies suggested that Nepal has high potential for development of ...