Problems and Prospects of Vegetable Farming A Case Study of Phakphokthum Rural Municipality Ward No. 7 of Ilam District

Abstract

Nepal, being one of the developing agricultural country, sustainable development is only possible through the way of agricultural resonances by investigating and investing in resent technologies, ideas, skills and land matching seeds including commercialization in vegetable farming. The prime concern of the study were to examine the trend of vegetable production in study area, to study the role of vegetable farming in the study area, to identify the problems of vegetable farming in the study area, and to analyze the prospects of vegetable farming in the study area. A set of questionnaire entitled 'Problems and Prospects of Vegetable Farming ' was the tools for the collection of data, there were 100 households engaged in vegetable farming, among them 30 households were selected for the study. Collected data have been analyzed and interpreted in descriptive ways. The study has used simple random method of sampling. The result of the study showed that the study area is one of the potential areas for the commercial vegetable farming and found most of the households used to have vegetable farming in their home for the purpose of self consume as well as the purpose of the business, it has great role in the socio-economic status of the people. The major problems of such vegetable farming in the study were found as lack of plain land, lack of irrigation, lack of manpower, lack of fertilizer and other pesticides, high labor cost, high production cost and low value of produced goods. And the different significant prospects were found in this profession which was as prospects to develop vegetable farming as a main occupation, availability of markets, existence of collection centre, presence of supporting factor, interests of people in vegetable farming, vegetable farming as the main source of income which will help to alleviate poverty.