Authors:
Gert-Jan Stads, Hari K. Shrestha, Hira K. Manandhar, and Lang Gao
Year:
2015
Publisher
International Food Policy Research Institute and Nepal Agricultural Research Council
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Agricultural R&D investment and human resource capacity in Nepal grew in recent years in response to increased government funding; nevertheless, much more is needed to address the agricultural sector’s many critical challenges.
NARC is by far the largest agency conducting agricultural R&D in Nepal, accounting for more than 80 percent of the country’s agricultural R&D investments and human resource capacity in 2012.
Authors:
Stads, Gert-Jan; Shrestha, Hari K.
Year:
2006
Publisher
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); and Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC)
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Overall, agricultural researcher numbers in Nepal increased during 1996–2003, while the country’s agricultural R&D expenditures followed a more irregular trend. Nepal’s principal agricultural R&D agency, NARC, was highly dependent on the World Bank-financed project AREP, which ran from 1998 until 2002. The closure of this project led to a sharp fall in the council’s and the country’s agricultural R&D spending, prompting the Nepalese government to increase its funding to NARC.