Agriculture

Position: Volunteer/Intern
Location: Kathmandu, Pokhara, Chitwan, Kavre, Nepal
Enrollment: Round the year
Salary: Unpaid

In this program volunteer will be staying with a local host family and help in their dally house work 5 days in a week. Agriculture is one of the oldest occupations in Nepal and approximately 90% of our population works in this sector.

There was a major breakthrough in agricultural production in the 1960's with the introduction of the new agricultural technology based on the high yielding variety of crops. The success of Nepalese agriculture, however, lies in the successful transfer of this new technology to the fields. Agricultural Sciences and allied fields are continually developing and changing as new knowledge is gained through research and new technology revolutionizes working methods. 

The fields allied to agriculture cover areas like horticulture, animal husbandry and veterinary sciences, dairy science, sericulture, fisheries and forestry, seed collection and distribution, erosion and flood control etc. Horticulture involves doing research work on plants and is a much-applied field. It is a science that includes floriculture or cultivation of flowers. In agriculture the volunteer has to be actively involved in planting, harvesting, marketing and other aspects of fieldwork