by admin | 1 Jun 2021 | Uncategorized
By: Niranjan Pudasaini, LI-BIRD, Pokhara The National Seed Board (NSB) approved the registration of six unique landraces on 24th March 2021 under the Schedule D provision of Seed Regulation 2013. Registration of landraces will come into force soon with the formal...
by admin | 28 Apr 2021 | Uncategorized
By: Pradip Thapa BACKGROUND Varietal registration is the fundamental step to enable legal pathways for commercialization of a particular crop variety. Seed Regulation (2013) of Nepal has a dedicated provision (Annex 2-Schedule D) to register local crop landrace,...
by admin | 26 Apr 2020 | Uncategorized
By: Devendra Gauchan The alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT jointly with the Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC) and Local Initiatives for Biodiversity Research and Development (LI-BIRD) organized a national level sharing workshop on February 24,...
by admin | 20 Apr 2020 | Uncategorized
By: Niranjan Pudasaini Varietal registration is the fundamental step to enable legal pathways for seed value chain development and commercialization of particular crop variety. In order to promote access to high quality seeds of local varieties in the formal seed...
by admin | 17 Apr 2020 | Uncategorized
By: Pradip Thapa and Devendra Gauchan Background A consultation workshop on farmers’ variety registration and commercialization was organized on December 30, 2019 at National Genebank, Khumaltar, Lalitpur. The workshop was organized jointly by National Genetic...
