Nepal’s rice and paddy imports surged by 45.9% in the first month of 2025/26, reaching Rs. 2.91 billion compared to Rs. 2.00 billion in the same period last year. With rice imports now accounting for nearly 2% of total imports, the trend has once again raised critical questions about Nepal’s long-standing struggle with food self-sufficiency. […]
Source: Xinhua, Editor: huaxia KATHMANDU, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) — Experimental seedlings of hybrid rice varieties were transplanted into Nepal South Agricultural Science and Technology Park on Monday, as part of efforts to help the South Asian country achieve food self-sufficiency. The first batch of 37 high-yield varieties will land at the hybrid rice demonstration zone […]
India launched a new collaborative initiative with the support of the UN World Food Programme to strengthen Rice Fortification and Supply Chain Management in Nepal. This initiative is part of India-UN Global Capacity Building Initiative launched on 1st August 2025 by Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, in New Delhi. The project in Nepal […]
TRN Online By A Staff Reporter Kathmandu, Aug. 4: India, in collaboration with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), has launched a new initiative to support rice fortification and strengthen supply chain management in Nepal. This initiative is part of India-UN Global Capacity Building Initiative launched on Friday (August 1, 2025) by Ministry of […]
India Blooms News Service India launched a new collaborative initiative with the support of the UN World Food Programme to strengthen Rice Fortification and Supply Chain Management in Nepal. “This initiaitive is part of India-UN Global Capacity Building Initiative luanched on 1st August 2025 by Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, in New Delhi,” […]
TRN Online By Our Correspondent Tamghas (Gulmi), Aug. 4: Farmers here have been forced to plant paddy as if it were millet, after not receiving sufficient even at the end of July. Farmers of Ishma Rural Municipality-2, Chaldi Phant of Gulmi have been compelled to plant rice like millet due to lack of rainfall this […]
Monsoon failure, cracked soil, and wilting crops raise fears of sharp production declines. Ajit Tiwari, Om Prakash Thakur, and Shiva Puri- The Kathmandu Post JANAKPUR/SARLAHI/RAUTAHAT – Ali Shekh, a farmer from Pipariya in ward 2 of Kabilasi Municipality in Sarlahi, usually cultivates paddy on four bigha (2.21 hectares) of land. His harvest not only feeds […]
Khabarhub KATHMANDU: Paddy planting has been severely affected in Madhes Province and other key grain-producing regions of Nepal due to this year’s unfavorable monsoon. On the recommendation of the Madhes Province government, the Federal Government has declared the province a disaster-prone area for three months. Stakeholders have expressed growing concerns over a potential decline in […]
Kathmandu, July 22: The country recorded 72 per cent of paddy seedlings plantation till the third week of the month July, which is 12 percent point less compared to the same period of the last year. The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development said that paddy plantation is done in around 1 million hectares of […]
Once known as Nepal’s granary, Madhesh Province is witnessing a steady decline in paddy cultivation. Recent data shows that only 33.78 percent of arable land in the region has been planted with rice this season. Farmers blame the shortage of water and fertilizer as the primary reasons for this worrying trend. By MITHILESH YADAV KATHMANDU, […]
