Promoting Small-Scale Irrigation Scheme: A Sustainable Way Out to Food Insecurity and Poverty Reduction in Rural Nepal

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2009

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"In a country like Nepal where the monsoon is becoming increasingly erratic, the food need of the ever-growing human population cannot be adequately supported by the rain-fed agriculture alone. Certainly, irrigation is the utmost and crucial means of ensuring sustainable agriculture and coping with periods of inadequate rainfall and drought."

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irrigation, food supply, poverty alleviation

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