Higher prices of staple crops for farmers in Gandaki

According to the report, per quintal is the highest in Gandaki at Rs 3,865. "In the second number, the farmers of Wagmati got 3 thousand 505 rupees per quintal, in the third place Karnali got 3 thousand 318 rupees, the farmers of Koshi got 3 thousand 291 rupees per quintal," the report says, "After Koshi, the farmers of Lumbini got 2 thousand 895 rupees per quintal. Farmers in Far West have received 2 thousand 811 rupees.'

The farmers of Madhesh province have received the least Rs. 2500 per quintal. Gandaki Province is in the first position in terms of price, but Madhesh Province is ahead in terms of productivity. While the national productivity of rice is 34.1 quintals per hectare, the productivity of rice in Madhesh is 37.3 quintals per hectare. Karnali has the lowest productivity of 30.7 quintals per hectare,” said the report. According to the

report, the office went to the 'field' for 45 days from 6 May 2079 to 19 June 2079 and counted agriculture. It is mentioned that the details have been collected from 6,036 (about 90 percent) of the total wards in Nepal. In the calculation, mainly through the farmer family questionnaire, the size of the land used by the farmer (measurement), the consumption and use of the land, the area of ​​the cultivated land and the production, the details of the irrigation are mentioned in the structural description. The 7th National Agricultural Census was prepared by interviewing the chairmen and secretaries of the wards within the enumeration area, filling in community questionnaires and collecting data. According to the

report, the farmers of Gandaki have also got good prices for maize. The average price of maize per quintal in Nepal is 2 thousand 365 rupees. It is mentioned that the highest price of maize is Rs 2,443 in Gandaki. The lowest is Rs 2,246 per quintal in Far West. In terms of corn productivity, Madhesh province is the most and behind Gandaki province.

The average price of wheat is Rs 3,896 per quintal. Madhesh is ahead in wheat productivity. The average productivity is 27.1 quintals per hectare while in Madhesh it is 28.7 quintals per hectare. In the case of wheat, the lowest productivity is 24.7 quintals per hectare in Koshi region. In the same way, the farmers of Gandaki have got more price for millet. According to the report, the average price per quintal of millet is Rs 4,333 while in Gandaki, it has been fixed at Rs 4,753. The lowest price is Rs 3,420 per quintal in Far West. According to the calculations, 40 percent of the wards where the details were collected have been lacking agricultural workers for 3 years. There is a shortage of agricultural workers in the wards of Madhesh province the most.

Among the major crops of Nepal, rice is cultivated the most. According to the report, paddy is the main food crop in 4 thousand 173 wards among the wards counted. Maize is the main crop in 1360 wards after paddy. The number of wards where wheat is cultivated as the main crop is 219, wards where millet is the main crop is 119. Barley/Uwa 61 and Phapar 15 are cultivated as major crops in wards.

In the case of fruits, mangoes are grown in most of the wards. Mango production is the main crop. According to the census, mango is the major fruit crop produced in the ward in 2011. Secondly, 807 oranges and 615 bananas are produced as major crops in the ward. Apple ranks fourth as the major fruit crop. Apple is grown as a major crop in 298 wards. Similarly, lemon is cultivated in 131 wards, pear in 121 wards, kiwi in 113 wards.

In terms of livestock production, chicken meat, eggs and buffalo milk are the most produced in the ward. Floods have caused the most damage caused by natural disasters in the agricultural sector. According to the report, flood has been a major disaster in the last 5 years. Out of the calculated wards, there is a flood problem in 3,770 wards. The second major calamity is landslides and the third is hurricanes," the report said. "Landslides and hurricanes have caused problems in 2,869 wards and 2,783 wards."