| Budget Amount *help |
¥17,470,000 (Direct Cost: ¥16,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,470,000)
Fiscal Year 2001: ¥6,370,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,470,000)
Fiscal Year 2000: ¥4,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,800,000)
Fiscal Year 1999: ¥6,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥6,300,000)
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| Research Abstract |
The main issues that were studied in this research are farming and nonfarming production activities, food supply, sustainable local resource use and eco-conservation, development policy, and local participatory activities. In order to deal with these issues, studies were conducted in the montane districts representing each development zones ; Eastern, Central, Western, Mid-western and Far-western. A village-level household survey covering all the households in the village was conducted in two villages of each district for in-depth study, covering the above issues at the household level in addition to family structure, literacy, education and language ability of the household members. This information was analyzed in detail in order to understand the basic farming and rural structure in each village and issues of their respective districts. An overall picture of the situation facing Nepal was shown through these district level analyses in the final report. Some of the findings were pres
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ented at 24^<th> International Agricultural Economists Conference, Berlin and 51^<st> All Japan Regional Agricultural Economists Conference, Shimane during the research project period. The main findings of this research are 1) population growth is high even in the montane regions of Nepal and there many people migrating, some even to foreign countries for economic reasons, resulting in a decreased numbers of males residing in the village, 2) the self-reliant nature of rural life is no longer functioning properly due its subsistence nature and ever decreasing carrying capacity due to stagnating productivity of farming is hurting the small farmers the hardest, 3) cash crops have been introduced to overcome this issue, but due to the lack of infrastructure and supporting systems the expected results have not yet been achieved, 4) rural people are encouraged to organize themselves in order to tackle this problem, thus giving room for local organizations to be the recipient of the various services, 5) the increase of nonfarm work, such as, tourism-related jobs within the rural region, has lessened the pressure on the use of natural resources for making a living in the fragile montane regions, 6) multifarious nature of rural life has introduced cash economy in the region and the self sufficiency of the food supply is decreasing, 7) location-specific farming with maximum use of local, resources and full participation of the villagers is necessary to secure food and conserve the ecology, 8) the development levels of the country tend to decrease from the Eastern Development region to the Far-west, with the exception of the Central Development Region which tends to be the most developed. Less
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