Год выпуска: 2012 Автор: Ananta Ghimire Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 104 ISBN: 9783848449811
Описание
The study was carried out to assess the dependency of farmers on bamboo resource for rural livelihood in Lalitpur district of Nepal. It revealed that bamboo craftmaking is only the alternative income source to cope with this food insecurity situation as it is the traditional occupation of Paharis, indigenous caste for hundreds of years. The study also found that the lack of market, bamboo raw material, technical knowledge about bamboo plantation and management, small landholding, subsidies and micro-finance from the government are the major challenges of bamboo craftmaking. The rural farmers have opportunity to large-scale bamboo plantation in Community forest by CFUGs themselves and with the initiation of forest department for technical as well as financial support to run their enterprise in a sustainable way. They have also the opportunity to shift from traditional craftmaking to modern crafts, develop market network through farmers’ co-operatives, multiple uses of bamboo resource...
