Lalitpur. Minister for Agriculture and Livestock Development Ramnath Adhikari has said that the government is committed to the welfare of farmers.

Speaking at the 22nd National Rice Day and Planting Festival-2082 organized by the Department of Agriculture, Centre for Crop Development and Agro-Biodiversity Protection, National Farmers Commission and National Crop Science Research Centre (NARC) at The National Crop Science Research Centre, Khumaltar today with the theme ‘Intensification in paddy crop, food security and self-reliance’, he said the state would work with due attention to the farmers despite the limitation of resources and resources. ।

“It is a culture to stay in the mud in June, unless we emphasize on production, the country will not go towards prosperity, there is no one as tasty as the rice of sweet paddy as Chaite paddy, the taste of Ghaiya paddy and Marsi rice of Jumla is the same, we will be self-reliant in paddy within two years. He said.

Stating that the production would increase by celebrating paddy day next year, he pledged to move ahead by adopting the views expressed by the farmers. “We have made arrangements to solve the problem of what the state needs to do to become self-reliant in paddy,” he said.

Chairperson of the Agriculture, Cooperatives and Natural Resources Development Committee of the Federal Parliament, Kusum Thapa, said that the government would carry out policy discussions in the parliamentary committee to make the country self-reliant in food by empowering the country’s farmers.

Secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development, Deepak Kumar Kharal, stressed the need to replace imports by contributing to paddy production, consumption and export, while respecting the contribution of farmers in nepal’s agriculture sector. He said that due to the land use policy issued by the Government of Nepal, there were some problems due to the conversion of productive agricultural land into residential land and stressed the need to make it easier.

Executive Director of Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC) Krishna Prasad Timsina said paddy is an integral part of people’s way of life and culture. Stating that the import and export would continue to change as the chain of demand would change according to the increase in people’s interest and population, he said preparations were underway to make Nepal self-reliant in rice by 2030.

Farmer Dayaram Maramchi, who was awarded the National Best Farmer Award by the President this year, said that emphasis should be laid on increasing farmer-friendly policy arrangements, programs as well as food self-reliance by making changes in the days and programs that have been formally confined.

Presenting a working paper on ‘Self-Reliance in Rice and Rice’, Joint Secretary at the Ministry, Dr Ram Krishna Shrestha, said that the 10 countries producing most rice in the world are in Asia. He said nepal’s self-reliance in paddy production has been declining in recent times.

Keshav Devkota, chief of the Centre for Crop Development and Agricultural Biodiversity Conservation, said that The National Paddy Day is being celebrated across the country since 2061 BS with the aim of honoring the labor of the farmers by keeping their morale high.

Rice, the country’s main food crop, plays a major role in food security. In the context of nutritious, economic, social, cultural and religious importance, the area and production of paddy crop has not decreased significantly due to the ethnic development and changes in farming techniques and modernization in the paddy crop.

It is customary to celebrate June 15 as a festival, which is known as the month of planting and growing muri. Although there are two types of paddy cultivation in Nepal, only about seven percent of the total paddy producing area is under the cultivation of chaite paddy.

Therefore, there is a strong possibility that Nepal can be made self-sufficient in food and strengthen food security by intensifying rice cultivation through the expansion of the area of rice cultivation in the potentially irrigated areas.