KATHMANDU, SEP 01 – Nepal has retained its position as the world’s sixth largest producers of lentil s in 2012 after it logged 0.64 percent rise in production to 208,201 tonnes, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. The FAO statistics show that Nepal’s production accounted for 4.57 percent of the world’s lentil s in 2012. In terms of production, Nepal is behind Canada, India, Australia, Turkey and the US. The world lentil s output grew by 3.32 percent to 4.55 million tonnes in 2012. Meanwhile, the area under lentil cultivation rose to 207,630 hectares last year from 207,591 hectares in 2011. It…
Supporting Youth and Agriculture through ICTs: a message from the e-Agriculture Team Agriculture is one of the most ancient and basic productive sectors of human activity, yet young farmers around the world have been exposed to tremendous barriers in starting a farming career. Now, due to the use of information and communication technologies (ICT), they are finding amazing opportunities for development. We feel it is important to get involved in a community that works – by youth and for youth – to generate awareness on this issue. This is why we are proud to be a part of e-Agriculture. Compelling projections shows us…
Why your website needs to work across multiple devices By Mayur Kisani The majority of today’s users consume media on multiple screens — smartphones, tablets and TV. From checking email to surfing to tweeting about a TV show or finding out about a product, your customers are mobile and spend a considerable amount of time on these screens, away from the desktop computer. INDUSTRY PULSE Is your website optimized for mobile? 1. Yes 2. No Building a website that showcases your business and products across multiple devices is the new norm. Mobile access to company websites has either outstripped access…
Climate is changing and we are facing its impacts. There is both positive and negative impact of climate changes but we need to focus on negative impacts of it because they are vulnerable to us. In mountainous countries like Nepal, Climate changes leads to continuous melting of snows, glacier lakes etc. People living just below snowy mountains or glacier lakes are in heavy risk and people living in hilly as well as terai regions are also facing bad impacts of climate change such as rise in temperature, fluctuation in rainfall pattern, uneven rise in water level etc.
On September 08, 2000 leaders from United Nations (UN) member countries along with 23 different international organizations met up in Millennium Summit to addresses different human problems. After three days long millennium summit, general assembly of UN realizes that combine effort of countries and people all over the world is necessary to solve existing problems; solving problem alone is not possible. After realizing the facts, eight different development goals or promises were set up following the Millennium Declaration of UN and agreed to achieve by the year 2015 A.D. Those goals were eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, achieving universal primary…
