Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC)

http://narc.gov.np/

Features

Digital platform provides information that will help increase crop productivity and improve soil health.

Features

CIMMYT market development specialist works to strengthen the seed and fertilizer market systems and value chains in Nepal.

Press releases

High-zinc and climate-resilient varieties poised to boost production for farmers and nutrition for consumers.

Capacity development
Videos

New online training takes farmers and service providers though a visual journey on the use of conservation agriculture-based sustainable intensification methods.

Food security
In the media

Source: Seed Quest (27 May 2020)

Nepal Agricultural Research Council and CIMMYT scientists suspect new races of stripe and leaf rust in the Nepal hills and terai in the recent 2020 wheat season.
Projects

Innovation and technology
Features

New project to deliver wheat disease warnings directly to farmers’ phones in Bangladesh and Nepal.

Food security
Features

Stakeholders work together to strengthen systems for detecting, mitigating and managing the invasion of the destructive pest.

Capacity development
Features

CIMMYT and partners revise Nepal’s seed science and technology curriculum, so university graduates are better equipped to join the industry’s work force.

Innovation and technology
Features

Digital seed information system will connect farmers to information and seed suppliers.

Climate change
News

Nepal boosts domestic maize hybrid seed production.

Food security
Features

Halfway into Nepal’s 12-year plan to boost seed systems, partners review progress and plan the best way to meet targets.

Innovation and technology
News

Scientists in Nepal are evaluating push-pull cropping systems as a pest control method.

News

Partners from four countries reflect and plan ahead after five years of the SRFSI project.

Climate change
Projects