Abstract
Farming in Nepal mostly represents the hill farming system with the dominance of small-holder farmers. In recent days, farmers in the country are impacted by climate change. Events of surface runof...
Highlights
Hill farming system in Nepal represents 40% of cultivated land predominantly practiced by smallholder farmers (Paudel, Tamang, Lamsal, & Paudel, 2011)
This paper mainly presents a comparative assessment of different crop varieties using three different treatments-jholmal, green manuring, and mulching compared to the farmers’ locally used business as usual practices from the experimental trials in 2015 and 2016
The paper discussed three major climate-smart practices: application of jholmal, green manure, and mulching that has been introduced through Resilient Mountain Village (RMV) Project among the smallholder farmers in the mid-hills region of Nepal
Summary
Hill farming system in Nepal represents 40% of cultivated land predominantly practiced by smallholder farmers (Paudel, Tamang, Lamsal, & Paudel, 2011). Farmers in the country are impacted by climate change (Paudel, 2010). The temperature across the mountainous region in the HKH is projected to increase by 1–2°C or in some places up to 4–5°C by 2050, which is greater than the global average (Shrestha et al, 2015). The projection of rainfall showed that the summer monsoon is likely to increase by 4–12% in a short run whereas by 4–25% in a longer term, with regional variability across the HKH (Wester, Mishra, Mukherji, & Shrestha, 2019). In Nepal, the impacts of changing weather pattern are well discussed for mountain smallholder farmers (Gentle & Maraseni, 2012; Rai, Bhatta, Acharya, & Bhatta, 2018). Paudel (2013) revealed an increase of pest and diseases in mountain agriculture, impacting on yields
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