Most of the people in Nepal are farmers. They depend on agriculture which is the backbone of the country. It supplies people with their daily needs. Agriculture sectors provide us with many benefits. Firstly, we can get our food from agriculture. We can get fresh crops, vegetables, fruits, etc. from our farm. But in our country, agricultural development has not been given high priority. Most of the farmers apply traditional methods of farming because most of them are not well trained and educated. By following traditional methods, they cannot have good production. Some of the farmers who are trained apply modern methods and get more benefits. The facilities of irrigation, modern fertilizers, improved seeds and safe storage are not sufficiently available.
The development of the country depends on agriculture upliftment. Unless an agro-based country can feed its people, development may not gear up its pace, rather crawls. If the country has to import food from other countries, its money goes away and by the result, development paces very slowly. If we produce more crops, vegetables and fruits we need, we can export them to other countries to earn foreign currency. Thus, agricultural development provides people with daily needs, increases exports and decreases imports.
Most of the people are employed in agriculture sector in Nepal. If we develop it properly, the problem of unemployment can easily be solved here since there are some industries which are based on farming products. It provides industries of different types with raw materials.
Thus, agriculture development in Nepal is very important to provide daily needs to the people, increase exports, cut down imports, solve the problems of unemployment and provide raw materials to some industries. The government and responsible sectors should give the uppermost priority to the modernization and development of agriculture in Nepal.
