UK Acharya, YR Pandey, PP Khatiwada, RB KC

Nepal Agricultural Research Council, Singhdurbar Plaza, Kathmandu

e-mail: umeshach@gmail.com

 

Abstracts

Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC) is conducting horticultural research based
on need of the country. The research focus is mostly on vegetable crops and especially
in plant breeding, however it lacks vegetable commodity dedicated breeders. The average
horticultural research budget is 12% of total research budget of NARC. Of that total sum
source seed/ sapling production and action research consumes at least 25% of horticultural
budget. The horticultural research projects were mostly vegetable focused in past and now
the attention is shifting towards fruit and plantation crops but still provided least priority to
floriculture research. A coordinated effort by NARC, NGOs, universities and private sectors
are needed to drive the horticultural research to fulfil present need.

Keywords: horticulture, research, resources, technologies