Traditional Practices of Bean Production: An option for Diversity Rich Solution to Combat Stresses
Bean is one of the important pulse crops with good economic value and high export potential in Western Nepal especially in Jumla and Humla. Beans are usually used as dal, soup and for porridge. The cultivation practices of landraces mixture have been passed down since...
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Traditional Practices of Bean Production: An option for Diversity Rich Solution to Combat Stresses
Bean is one of the important pulse crops with good economic value and high export potential in Western Nepal especially in Jumla and Humla. Beans are usually used as dal, soup and for porridge. The cultivation practices of landraces mixture have been passed down since...
Concepts & Tools
The project is utilizing and innovating on a variety of participatory tools and approaches for sustainable management of agrobiodiversity in the mountain environments
Mandate Crops
The Local Crop Project focuses its research and promotion work on neglected and underutilized species specifically adapted to high mountain cold environments
Project Sites
The project works in Humla, Jumla, Lamjung and Dolakha, four districts representing the different rainfed regimes of the mountain areas of Nepal spanning from the east to the western Himalayas
Traditional Practices of Bean Production: An option for Diversity Rich Solution to Combat Stresses
Bean is one of the important pulse crops with good economic value and high export potential in Western Nepal especially in Jumla and Humla. Beans are usually used as dal, soup and for porridge. The cultivation practices of landraces mixture have been passed down since...
Food Fair: An Initiative For Promotion Of Traditional Food Products
Smartly clad in traditional ‘Gurung’ (an ethnicity of Nepal) dresses, Sita Gurung, Babita Gurung and Lilu Gurung of Ghanapokhara, Lamjung, were preparing various food items of local crops in a stall. A curious group of onlookers were observing the food items, and...
Traditional Practices of Bean Production: An option for Diversity Rich Solution to Combat Stresses
Bean is one of the important pulse crops with good economic value and high export potential in Western Nepal especially in Jumla and Humla. Beans are usually used as dal, soup and for porridge. The cultivation practices of landraces mixture have been passed down since...
Food Fair: An Initiative For Promotion Of Traditional Food Products
Smartly clad in traditional ‘Gurung’ (an ethnicity of Nepal) dresses, Sita Gurung, Babita Gurung and Lilu Gurung of Ghanapokhara, Lamjung, were preparing various food items of local crops in a stall. A curious group of onlookers were observing the food items, and...
Local Crop Diversity Fair in Jugu, Dolakha: A move towards normal life in the aftermath of devastating earthquake
Seed is the foundation of life and so is traditional knowledge of the farmers. Diversity Fair -- a community based competitive event to display local seed diversity -- is a well-established participatory tool employed in conservation and management of agricultural...
Mandate Crops
The Local Crop Project focuses its research and promotion work on neglected and underutilized species specifically adapted to high mountain cold environments
Concepts & Tools
The project is utilizing and innovating on a variety of participatory tools and approaches for sustainable management of agrobiodiversity in the mountain environments
Project Sites
The project works in Humla, Jumla, Lamjung and Dolakha, four districts representing the different rainfed regimes of the mountain areas of Nepal spanning from the east to the western Himalayas