Researcher of the month: Rajan Ghimire

Rajan Ghimire, one of the diligent students from Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science (IAAS), is among the few bloggers (click to find) in our circle. He completed his bachelor’s degree from IAAS in 2003 (major: soil science) and subsequently his master’s degree in soil science from the same institute in 2006. Later he worked as an assistant professor of soil science at IAAS (2006-2009) and won huge response from his endeavors. His master’s thesis entitled ‘Soil organic carbon sequestration by tillage, mulch and nitrogen management in Chitwan valley soils, Nepal’ succeed to produce 3 peer reviewed journal papers and 2 proceeding papers. The links for his articles are listed below. Visit his personal website and learn more about him (http://www.rghimire.com/).

Pesticide use in agriculture, our health and risk on underground water in Nepal

Our family was always aware about toxic chemicals in our food because my mother who works in DADO (District Agriculture Development Office) was well known about how farmers were increasingly misusing toxic chemicals in the field. I remember her story about a farmer who friend handed her few cabbages as a gift when she visited his farm. When she was passing by his field some workers were scrapping out the outer layer of cabbage before they took it to the market. Good of her that she suggested they could utilize the outer leaves to feed animals. But her farmer friend replied instantly that the animals would die because of the pesticides without realizing that my mother had been carrying the cabbage gifts with her probably felling little lucky that day.

New Ideas and Facebook Pages

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We now have different pages under our Facebook account. These pages are created for your particular interest in Entomology, Horticulture, Agronomy, Economics or Genetics. Click the links and like the page for interesting news, stories, facts and illustrations. If you like the post then please consider to share and comment your views.

Entomology

Horticulture

Agronomy 

Economics

Genetics
Climate Change

We are happy that our Facebook group Agriculture Corner is slowly warming up with discussions and good posts. Thanks to all contributors and  your participation. 

You all know that we are working hard to bring our idea at a place for common discussion. We are happy that we have succeed so far for a bang start. But this is just a beginning. We aim to take our interest to a new level. However, we are nothing without your participation and involvement, we will go no where without your interest and share. We hope you will actively participate with us if you believe in the cause. 

Please share the post in our pages if you like.

We are in search of some energetic, updated and dedicated volunteer to maintain our current pages; Entomology, Agronomy , and Genetics . Or if you are a dedicated person in any other field than what we have we you are welcome to suggest and claim our responsibility :-) . We are working with our veterinarian friends to bring forwards similar ideas. You are welcome to send us email if you are interested in our work at agriculturecorner@gmail.com or agcorner@facebook.com

On behalf of AgCorner Team
Gunjan Khanal