ntfps

Far-west hills especially Baitadi district is the habitat of high value NTFPs. People inhabiting in these hills have traditionally been collecting different NTFPs from private forests, community forests and government forests. There are several challenges and constraints in the marketing of collected NTFPs to increase the income and employment opportunities for the forest dependent rural people. There is no system for public collection and dissemination of NTFPs market prices in this region.

The thesis entitled “Cultivation and Marketing of Asparagus racemosus in Sarlahi District” aimed to explore perception and problems of its cultivation and marketing; find out the state of profit and examine the trend of price per unit, quantity traded and income obtained from Asparagus. Forty percentage of total cultivators’ HHs randomly were interviewed from the purposively selected eleven village development committee in Sarlahi District.

This study assesses the dependency of farmers on bamboo resource for rural livelihood in Lalitpur district of Nepal. Bamboo is known as a key resource for people and it is one of the income generating sources for poor and landless people in Nepal. Many rural communities of Nepal have been cultivating and managing bamboo in homesteads as well as in Community Forests (CF). The study is based on the sustainable livelihoods approach and employed qualitative and quantitative research methods.

The study documents plant species used as Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) and traditional knowledge on the utilization of these plant resources by local people around the Community Forests (CFs) in Kamere-Karchape and Madhuban of Arghakhanchi and Kapilvastu districts of Nepal between July and September in 2005.