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Today, theme of Environmental Development has extended from research activities into a global NGO network and expanded at the top international policies level. On the contrary, we are facing the reality that more than half of world populations live in cities, and many people barely get a glimpse natural serenity. Yet not incriminated the unfortunate tendency of being unable to predict future responding to immediate local crisis and not taking notice for greater natural threats for the sustainable collective survival. The mal development facts that stands as an impoverishment of the majority in developing countries where overexploitation of natural resources bases has been running and contributing to natural degradation. The exposure flash focuses ethical and humanitarian reason and much more for luxury and poverty. Luxurious lifestyle has lead into waste of resources and poverty has resulted in the exploitation of left overs.
“We begin to get the impression that we were somehow above and separate from nature”-Craig Chalquist.
There are numerous examples in daily experiences from where the toxic chemicals raise up. Once the toxic chemicals are airborne, the pollutants get transported over thousands of kilometers before getting condensed and falling once more on the earth’s surface into water and soil and finally getting exposed to the human environment once again. Fortunately the toxic level of chemical doesn’t seem high in practical life but we human beings have appeared to be contributing to a great climate change by destroying at the best form what has remained on the earth. Climate change is a natural phenomenon for one case. The internal and external forcing factors for climate change are natural. In a general understanding of past, earth was a place for warm blooded animals (reptiles) that travelled around the earth for millions of years ago and the present deserted areas once were covered with water. The earth was a warm place with high sea levels and less polar areas. After being hit by a meteor and being wrapped in dust particles the earth started freezing and ice age thus began with the rise of cold blooded animals and humans.

Scientists, who want to claim serious attention to them, find a way to scare the public by making things more complicated than they really are. But the main fact is we can’t deny the observations and calculations done by professional experts. Since the industrial and commercial market were created, critics have attracted the attention of the whole world spreading about the effects of global warming and other serious consequences of climate change from artificial (human) mechanisms. It’s a truth to speak that the cost of depriving society of the future availability of natural resources is still not totally accounted during the manufacturing and extraction processes. We humans seem to be clearly short sighted as we are in rush to mitigate our immediate crisis ignoring the larger threats that are going to come and the treats are not only for us but for the coming generations and millions of other natural species around earth that are dying at the rate of 200 species per day.
Different methods have been proposed to mitigate the future threats making predictions and coming up with better ideas of managing the resources but the commercial market that distributes resources across society, has considered nature to be a “use and throw for free” item since nature hasn’t got anything back to generate itself. Thus the economic growth we see has failed to include the environment in its calculations. Obviously economics is a major topic advising global and local policy as wealth is essential and the economic growth cannot be undermined. But, when a mother gets ill, it’s the duty of children to get her cured. If we agree that current environmental degradation should be controlled and cured, the use and throw concept should be ended by introducing sustainable behaviors in human world and eradicating such markets governed by money and power in a step wise process.
An example: If a solar 4 wheeler is cheaper and gives high efficiency than the diesel one, which shall we prefer? The answer lies within.

GINGER PRODUCTION IN MAKWANPUR- A SHORT GLIMPSE OF FARMERS STORY

 

Greetings,

It began when I got a chance to visit the farmlands of Makwanpur with my teammate for a rural reason from one of the research organisation in Kathmandu. The intention was to gather significant information and examination of ginger production in this specific region, and its principle goals of the subsidizing association, stands to increase ginger production and job of agriculturists spotted in Makwanpur area.

We initially began the examination venture from one of the southern VDC’s of Hetauda district, Hadikhola. With more than 1000 families and around 8 towns and arranged at the cradle zone range of Parsa Wildlife Reserve, the fundamental control of individuals living here has been horticulture and livestock farming since the early years. Other than we got a reasonable sight of individuals being occupied with other business financial exercises inside the towns and obviously, settlement from Middle East has been additionally one of the essential monetary wellspring of numerous individuals on this VDC. Inhabitants of these towns are from a broadened standing gatherings living together in a shared group connection viewing one another’s conventional traditions without any taboos identified with such social traditions.

By and large, the greater part of the agriculturists in this VDC are included in ginger cultivation subsequent to recent years, the reason as it’s been a real trade trim in for money in the business market. Be that as it may, in correlation to other gainful area zones, predominantly the farmlands of generally higher heights, farmers in this group have endured incredible loses because of different variables which I might want to put on forward that I looked for.

In spite of the fact that the terrains of Terai are exceptionally arable, issue begins to emerge promptly after ginger plantation. It is carried out during the pre monsoon season and promptly after few weeks of cultivation, because of rainfall, the developing plants begin getting withered. Deficient learning on planning water release channel and incorrectness amid the estate method appears the first issue that farmers experience the ill effects of. Likewise an alternate essential reason is the mixed bag of diseases that occur in ginger. The mulches which are spread after plantation get wet after precipitation and turn into a conception hotspot for bugs that begins to decay the rhizome seed. After researching for a week, around 80 percent of the farmers’ grief mentioned the impact of “rhizome rot disease” in their loss during the harvest.

I saw a life, life that has dependably been abiding in our general public of destitution. The top was covered with straws in a house, where I could discover the entire living room, kitchen room and bedroom in a “same room”. I stepped inside, was invited by an old group of spouse and wife from Tamang tribe. At the point when got some information about their ginger production, I could see the merciless feelings blended with dejection and little drops of tears in lady’s eyes while her spouse was chatting with me. One can accept the reason straight in light of the fact that it was an enormous misfortune for them which was hard to handle as they let me know they planted ginger by taking a payoff credit of 30,000.00 with a dream, a fantasy that a family living in the “same room” can imagine upon.

In the wake of finishing the quota according from our deploying association, we began our investigation in Padampokhari V.D.C., a decently sorted out community with a position of enthusiasm correlated to Hadikhola. It was fascinating to find that the greater parts of the farmers developing ginger here are being benefitted. The reason was introduction and intervention of a socio-agricultural program supported by one of the significant universal donor association for Nepal. Farmers were orientated to utilize a bio-fungicide named Trichoderma which enhances the business development of ginger by destroying the spoiling infections in ginger. The reactions from those farmers were supportive towards Trichoderma in general. However a figure was strolling in my brain that for what reason the farmers of neighbour town were unconscious about it.

Padampokhari and Hadikhola V.D.C despite being less advanced than the main metropolitan city, for many reasons it was special for us. Principally the dusk and its delightful beams before giving a goodbye to this spot, gave an unwinding to an inward personality and in addition, the Karra stream, although being contaminated by Hetauda concrete production line’s lechate and waste, pushed my feet to dwell in there for few minutes and appreciate nature.

Our next destination was Makwanpur gadi, one of the most popular destinations in Makwanpur.  Found on the highest point of the mountain in Gadi town, Makwanpur post has a various history previously, particularly during the period of Late King Prithivi Narayan Shah and Nepal Anglo war. Comprising the southern and southwestern region, it’s a place of agriculture. The residents here are well instructed and farming has been both (essential and optional) sources for economy. Ginger cultivating here has likewise been one of the aspiring cash crops principally as the area geography and few advanced upgrades have been strong around there. Amongst our respondents, when figured, the degree of production of ginger was 1:5 during the harvesting period. They hardly had any disappointments in regards to the misfortune or the business costs during our discussion session.

Our last end was Namtar, a western VDC lying in Mahabharat extend on the best approach to Daman from Bhaise bazaar and presumably a VDC in high elevation. It was a test for us to go to Namtar as a result of 2 specific reasons. Initially our examination was in a befuddling circumstance due to some technical reasons and second, we had no idea of our respondent’s homes. There was a rainstorm in that area few days back which disintegrated the communication line in the entire VDC.

We took after the side of a stream supposing we may get a town as we halted in a wrong station from transport and began trailing good and bad times with our baggage in our back. . I still remember the impressions of my mate when we were lost while searching for short cut and went into a wrong VDC carrying both luggage and the hunger for a heavy breakfast. It’s a village, where individuals have their supper before 9 and go to their work and we arrived at 11 am. Fortunately a teen brother helped us to demonstrate the place of one of our “valuable” respondent. He took us towards the house through a true alternate route which fled our craving for hunger

Our first respondent was a middle scaled farmer producing ginger in a medium sum for every annum. In the wake of completing our meeting in 30 minutes, we headed towards the main village which was past our sight. We went through the toss and turns in desolate fields, rough slants and grassy lands as we were lost from the main road. What exceptionally entertained us was the watering system trenched in such a messy slope, to the point that was splendidly composed with local resources. A simple mistake of foot would have brought us down towards the stream as we were strolling on the highest point of trench which was more than 300 meters over the stream. This is a village where you can discover one house in a distance of 30-40 minutes but also likewise it is a spot where your whole tiredness gets cleared by the wave of a fresh cool breeze.

At last we ventured into a group school, met one of the social specialist around there, resident of Namtar VDC, Mr. Udaya Hatuwal. He welcomed us in his home with an honor which was more than what we anticipated. There is an old maxim in Nepalese society that a night time visitor is a type of a divine being and this expression still lies unequivocally in villages.

We started holding interview with our respondents following day at the young hour. We met the respondents straightforwardly in their farmland and few of them were available at home. The majority of them were fulfilled by the ginger production and income they generate through ginger business. However the market system was not simple because in the absence of transportation. Individuals need to carry sacks of their items for quite a long time to the nearest bus station.

Conflicts:

Other than holding meetings with farmers as our fundamental respondents, we didn’t miss an opportunity to increase data in regards to the business sector flow of ginger from Hetauda region. It was our own particular plan to discover general correlations in the exchange framework in the middle of farmers and merchants, merchants and the suppliers. We discussed few words with merchants and neighborhood retailers in regards to the variance, competitiveness and the interest in worldwide business sector for the ginger delivered in general Makwanpur area. We discovered merchants as the most productive ones primarily amid the time when they get gingers in a lesser value (particularly in the gathering season) and purchase the same in the off seasons keeping in mind to keep up the business sector through continual supply.

Clearly, I experienced my time with numerous farmers in their homes, their farmlands, stayed with them, had a visit and with most likely I saw the same farmers being constricted and the most suppressed groups in the arrangement of ginger pricing and marketing management. Despite we see them being occupied with their farmlands, absence of engineering, absence of vermin actually when interest is high, fluctuation in the business sector and the low value calm frequently when sold to merchant are the significant issues for farmers delivering ginger as well as other cash crops also. There are likewise numerous voices being raged amongst the villagers and their social orders with respect to disappointment of interventional projects from International benefactors, a newly growing specific culture which can risk the nearing future when a “smart” looking individual steps into a town holding a document in his hands.

-“”यो सबै तपाईहरुको जस्तो NGO र INGO जस्ताले गरेर भएको हो | चाहिने -नचाहिने औसधि भित्राएर हाम्रो माटोको उत्पादन शक्ति नाश भएको हो |”

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