Abstract
Agriculture provides livelihood for 65% of Nepal’s population contributing for 27% of its GDP. Smallholder farms constitute 60% of farming segment. Distress farming, with inadequate minimum support price, subsidies and inadequate revenue generation force 29% of the general population to be malnourished. Farming system designs with integration of animal components would augment animal protein intake of these resource-poor populations, livelihood enhancement and sustainability of production system. On-farm field experiments in 75 participating farmers fields of Nepal with integration of fish culture and poultry rearing in transplanted rice showed appreciable (a significant) increase in nutritional status and livelihoods of participating farmers.
Highlights
Agriculture provides livelihood for 65% of Nepal’s population contributing for 27% of its GDP
The annual household income of the participating farming household were nepalese rupees 64,160 before the start of the intervention and the same rose to NPR 1,26,560, with the difference of NPR 62,400 that accounted to livelihood enhancement of 97%, almost double that of the baseline value. This increase is due to the revenue generated from the sale of broiler meat (180 kg of broiler meat produced from 200 m 2 of holding), fish meat (15 kg from 200 m2 of holding) and increased rice grain yield, coupled with displaced agrochemical cost
The poultry meat intake of participating households rose to 4.11 kg per month after the intervention, with an increase by 2.74-folds
Summary
Agriculture provides livelihood for 65% of Nepal’s population contributing for 27% of its GDP. Installations of infrastructure for adoption of Annamalai Rice + Fish + Poultry farming system in all the 75 farmers holdings, in area of 200 m 2 of rice fields in the holdings of identified participating farmers were organized.
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