Rabin Thapa

• Master of Science in Agriculture (Agricultural Economics)
• Agriculture Extension Officer at Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development Nepal

Nepal’s food security is predominantly sustained by the production of cereal crops, with rice serving as the principal staple. Despite its socio-economic importance, the rice seed sub-sector remains underdeveloped and fragmented, resulting in a growing dependence on imported seeds. This situation underscores the need for a better understanding of t...

Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is a climate-resilient practice that stands out globally as an important practice through which we can deal with emerging challenges through adaptation and mitigation to increase crop productivity and resilience. Despite its significance, a comprehensive cost-benefit analysis of the adoption of these practices has no...

The rice seed subsector plays a significant role in attaining self-sufficiency of rice. In the context of the huge demand-supply gap of rice seeds, it is imperative to increase productivity for assuring environmental sustainability and food security, by increasing the technical efficiency of rice seed production. The study used data from 223 rice s...

The rice seed sub-sector plays a vital role in the self-sufficiency of rice grain and food security in the context of changing climate. Thus, it is imperative to understand the perception of rice seed growers towards climate change and identify the major adaptation strategies against climate change along with their significant determinants. In this...

Average (ARIMA) models. The best fitted ARIMA models were chosen based on the minimum value of the selection criterion, Akaike information criteria (AIC) and Bayesian information criteria (BIC). ARIMA (0, 2, 1) model was found suitable for all areas and production, whereas ARIMA (0, 2, 0) model was best fitted for forecasting vegetable productivity...

For the partial fulfillment of 15 days ToT training, NASC Acknowledgements We would firstly like to thank Nepal Administrative Staff College (NASC) for providing us this opportunity of field visit to conduct Training Need Assessment (TNA) at Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA), Kuleshwor. Likewise, we are extremely grateful towards NEA and their empl...

With the trend of decreasing productivity in agriculture, the Government of Nepal endorsed a special project, the Prime Minister Agriculture Modernization Project (PMAMP), in 2015. The project selected Bajhang district as the potato zone to boost the production and productivity of potatoes. Against this background, we determined the technical effic...

The study was carried out to determine the factors affecting the adoption of good agriculture practices (GAP) for apple production in the Prime-Minister Agriculture Modernization Project’s (PMAMP) apple zone of Mustang district. Altogether, 100 households from Thasang and Gharapjhong rural Municipalities were chosen for the study by stratified rand...

The study was carried out to determine the factors affecting the adoption of good agriculture practices (GAP) for apple production in the Prime-Minister Agriculture Modernization Project's (PMAMP) apple zone of Mustang district. Altogether, 100 households from Thasang and Gharapjhong rural Municipalities were chosen for the study by a stratified ra...

Walnut carries a great potential for cultivation in the high hills of Nepal, including the Mugu district. However, progress has not been as expected. Low graft survival rate and poor grafting practices account for inadequate number of quality saplings and consequently unreasonable price for successful ones. In this context, a field-based research w...

The study assesses the two approaches of feminization: labor and managerial, and explores the implication of feminization in agricultural production in Gorkha and Chitwan district of Nepal. We examine the degree to which men, women or men and women jointly make agriculture-related decisions, and discuss the labor feminization and managerial feminiz...

Long juvenile period, hard shelled nature of fruit of seed propagated plants, difficulty in grafting and poor success rate has been the major concerns in walnut production in the world. Our study will aid in standardization of suitable techniques for multiplication of high yielding varieties so as to escalate the competitiveness in the internationa...

A field experiment was carried out under naturally ventilated greenhouse to assess the performance of tomato cv. Srijana as influenced by GA3 and NAA during the summer season of 2018–2019 at Kham Ghale Krishi farm, Pokhara, Kaski, Nepal. The treatments comprised of four levels of Gibberellic Acid (GA3) (i.e., 0 ppm, 25 ppm, 50 ppm and 75 ppm) combi...

Economic growth and employment are taken as the two major objectives of macroeconomic policy schema in both the developing as well as developed countries. This study aims to determine the relationship between the unemployment rate and GDP growth rate of Nepal using the time-series data from 1991-2020. Difference version approach, dynamic version ap...

Economic growth and employment are taken as the two major objectives of macroeconomic policy schema in both the developing as well as developed countries. This study aims to determine the relationship between the unemployment rate and GDP growth rate of Nepal using the time-series data from 1991-2020. Difference version approach, dynamic version ap...

Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is the most important staple cereal crop which is consumed by more than 50% of world population. It contributes 23% and 50% of total calories consumed by world and Nepalese population respectively. Among various abiotic factors affecting rice, rice blast is the most disastrous, causing 70-80% yield loss. This disease was orig...

A field-based experiment was carried out in Rukum (East), Nepal, from February to June 2020, to assess the effect of different methods and dates of grafting on the graft take rate of Persian walnut (Juglans regia L.) in field condition. The experiment comprised ten treatments with combination of two factors. The two factors included the grafting da...

Rice (Oryza Sativa L.) is the most important staple cereal crop which is consumed by more than 50% of the world population. It contributes 23% and 50% of total calories consumed by the world and Nepalese populations respectively. Among various abiotic factors affecting rice, rice blast is the most disastrous, causing 70-80% yield loss. This disease...

Forecasting of vegetable area, production, and productivity of Nepal was made from the historical data of 1977/78 to 2019/20 by using the Box-Jenkins Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) models. The best fitted ARIMA models were chosen based on the minimum value of the selection criterion, Akaike information criteria (AIC) and Bayesian...

A field-based experiment was carried out in Rukum (East), Nepal, from February to June 2020, to assess the effect of different pre-sowing treatments on germination of Persian walnut. The experiment was carried out in a randomized complete block design with six treatments and four replications. The treatments included hot water treatment, chilling s...

A field-based experiment was carried out in Rukum (East), Nepal, from February to June 2020, to assess the effect of different pre-sowing treatments on germination of Persian walnut. The experiment was carried out in a randomized complete block design with six treatments and four replications. The treatments included hot water treatment, chilling s...

A study was carried out to assess the trend of area, production, productivity and supply of potato in Kavre district, Nepal. The time-series data (1999/00 to 2017/18) were collected from the "Statistical Information on Nepalese Agriculture" published yearly by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development, Nepal and the data of potato (red...

A study was carried out to assess the trend of area, production, productivity and supply of potato in Kavre district, Nepal. The time-series data (1999/00 to 2017/18) were collected from the “Statistical Information on Nepalese Agriculture” published yearly by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development, Nepal and the data of potato (red...

Kaski is one of the potential districts for citrus production in Nepal. A study was carried out with the objective to assess and analyze the status and trend of area, productive area, production and productivity of citrus in Kaski district, Nepal. For the study, secondary data were collected from "Statistical Information on Nepalese Agriculture" pu...

Presented at the Annual conference of National Horticulture Society.

A field-based experiment was carried out in Rukum (East), Nepal, from February to June 2020, to assess the effect of different methods and dates of grafting on the graft take rate of Persian walnut (Juglans regia L.) in field condition. The experiment comprised ten treatments with combination of two factors. The two factors included the grafting da...

Rice (Oryza sativa L.) has been cultivated as an important cereal crop for more than 9,000 years and more than half of the world’s population depend on rice as it is their primary source of energy. Almost 30% of the current world cereal production is represented by the rice alone. It is estimated that the world’s population will reach 9.1 billion b...

Real time visualization of global COVID-19 pandemics and generation of SIR MODEL using R Studio software

Cauliflower is a vegetable with huge nutritive benefits and economic importance. However, it is vulnerable to economic damage by many insects and cauliflower aphids (Brevicoryne brassicae) are considered one of them. The irrational use of chemical pesticides for control of pests has become a threat to human health as well as the ecosystem. An alter...

Cauliflower is a vegetable with huge nutritive benefits and economic importance. However, it is vulnerable to economic damage by many insects and cauliflower aphids (Brevicoryne brassicae) are considered one of them. The irrational use of chemical pesticides for control of pests has become a threat to human health as well as the ecosystem. An alter...

Walnut (Juglans regia L.) is an important fruit belonging to family Juglandaceae and is particularly referred to as a high value commodity in Nepal. Propagation of fruit trees can be done basically via seeds and vegetative methods. Propagation via seeds in walnut has chances of producing variability due to heterozygosity and the varietal characteri...

Okra is a vegetable of high economic importance. Among many pests attacking it, jassids are considered to be the major one. Considering the impacts of jassids on yield reduction of okra, health hazards due to chemical pesticides and the high cost of chemical pesticides, a field experiment was conducted in olericulture farm of Agriculture and Forest...

Conservation Agriculture: Misperception and challenges