Climate Smart Agriculture: Point to be noted

Agriculture not only vulnerable to the the impacts of climate change, but also the major contributor and responsible for 14 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. But agriculture has the potential to be an important part of the solution, through mitigation (reducing and/or removing) a significant amount of global emissions. Some 70 percent of this mitigation potential could be realized in developing countries. FAO states that to achieve food security and agricultural development goals, adaptation to climate change and lower emission intensities per output will be necessary.

In this blog we are pointing some of the major topics that has to be consider to minimize the GHGs and climate change effects. 

New released Hybrid Maize yields up to 11.10 ton/ha

Recently Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC) has developed and released a new hybrid maize variety "Rampur Hybrid-2", which was developed by crossing of RML-4 (CA00326) and NML-2 (CML-430). This Rampur Hybrid-2 can be cultivated and is suited for the Terai and Inner Terai (Madesh) region of Nepal. It can produced as high as 7 t/ha of grains when planted in September-Octover with adquate supply of plant nutrients (120:60:40 kg N,P2O5,K2O) along with 10-15 t/ha of compost and good management with plant population of 66,666 plants (NMRP, 2012).