Nepal, Feb. 3 -- If we are to make smart agriculture program successful, we first need to make our agriculture institutions smart

The Government of Province 5 has proposed 'Smart Agriculture Village Program' for all its 12 districts and allocated 360 million rupees for its implementation. The program is going to be launched from this fiscal year with a noble objective of increasing farmers' income through commercialization of agriculture. As per the program, activities to be implemented in smart agriculture villages should be climate smart, irrigation smart, nutrition smart, technology smart and market smart. But were the planners of this program clear about the concept of smart agriculture at the time of formulating this program? What a...