Posted by: sajhabahadur July 9, 2009
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I am Dr. Sivakumar, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, India.
This is in reference to Message 96 of Sajhabahadur for ever reminding their
thinking on lack of resources.
Nepal has rich biodiversity like any other country and traditionally blessed
with food and fruit crops. It has admirable weather conditions and topography
that will provide opportunities in many dimensions for country's growth. In
agriculture, it has prominent food grain crops like maize, rice, wheat etc
and many fruit crops across its country. The government, institutions and
private functionaries should promote the higher end utility of these
agricultural products. We can see that many developed countries use their
particular advantage even without having any resources for production, simply
excels as trading centres. Like Europe, Nepal has tremendous opportunities
for making fermented foods, drinks and home distillaries for making alcohols,
wines etc. since it has good resources for starch from grain and fruit crops.
Biotechnology is not going to yield products immediately for any developing
countries. Most of the countries doing the start up work in most of the crops
and has not come to the stage of realizing benefits. Even if some progress
has been made, how far it is to their commercial application is a matter of
wait to see. Across the world, few private multinational players contributing
the innovations and their markets are supported by local institutions. Nepal
has a good chance to come to the forefront like Europe in making alcohol
drinks from food and fruit crops and can better promote agriculture,
employment, R&D set up for fermented products. Nepal should follow European
model to promote home made liquiors. Many biotechnological innovations can be
made in microbiological fermentations with less requirement in money
invesment and modern facilities. Hope, people around the world one day prefer
drinks from Nepal.
S. Sivakumar M.Sc, Ph.D
Associate Professor (PBG)
Tamil Nadu Agricultural University,
Coimbatore-641003,
India
Tel:+91-422-2450507(Off)
+91-422-2434512(Res),
+91-94435 67327 (Mobile)
email: subbarayansivakumar (at) yahoo.com
This is in reference to Message 96 of Sajhabahadur for ever reminding their
thinking on lack of resources.
Nepal has rich biodiversity like any other country and traditionally blessed
with food and fruit crops. It has admirable weather conditions and topography
that will provide opportunities in many dimensions for country's growth. In
agriculture, it has prominent food grain crops like maize, rice, wheat etc
and many fruit crops across its country. The government, institutions and
private functionaries should promote the higher end utility of these
agricultural products. We can see that many developed countries use their
particular advantage even without having any resources for production, simply
excels as trading centres. Like Europe, Nepal has tremendous opportunities
for making fermented foods, drinks and home distillaries for making alcohols,
wines etc. since it has good resources for starch from grain and fruit crops.
Biotechnology is not going to yield products immediately for any developing
countries. Most of the countries doing the start up work in most of the crops
and has not come to the stage of realizing benefits. Even if some progress
has been made, how far it is to their commercial application is a matter of
wait to see. Across the world, few private multinational players contributing
the innovations and their markets are supported by local institutions. Nepal
has a good chance to come to the forefront like Europe in making alcohol
drinks from food and fruit crops and can better promote agriculture,
employment, R&D set up for fermented products. Nepal should follow European
model to promote home made liquiors. Many biotechnological innovations can be
made in microbiological fermentations with less requirement in money
invesment and modern facilities. Hope, people around the world one day prefer
drinks from Nepal.
S. Sivakumar M.Sc, Ph.D
Associate Professor (PBG)
Tamil Nadu Agricultural University,
Coimbatore-641003,
India
Tel:+91-422-2450507(Off)
+91-422-2434512(Res),
+91-94435 67327 (Mobile)
email: subbarayansivakumar (at) yahoo.com