Research in agriculture has been started since 1950 in Nepal. Plant breeding works started
with the introduction and evaluation of rice, wheat and maize genotypes in 1951 in …

The numbers of food value plant species are 790 in Nepal and cultivated species are 577
including forage species. The estimated numbers of crop landraces are 30,000. Nepal is …

Big altitudinal range of crop cultivation ie from 60 m to 4700 m in Nepal has created and
maintained about more than 30,000 landraces of 484 crop species. These diversities are the …

Agrobiodiversity is one of the important components of biodiversity that is important for food
and nutrition security. This chapter aims to highlight the importance, conservation, and …

Basmati rice, also called the king/prince of rice landraces has very special values in
Nepalese society as well as in other countries of Indian Subcontinent. With the objectives of …

First rice collection mission in Nepal was held in 1971 in collaboration with IRRI. A total of
8389 rice accessions collected from Nepal are conserved in nine different genebanNs …

Crop diversity collections need to characterize their use for breeding and production.
Prebreeding help to accelerate the breeding works and this project focuses on identifying …

Nepal is considered one of the centers of diversity of Rice (Oryza sativa L.), which is a main
staple crop in the country. Pre-breeding is an important activity of genebank to enhance …

Background Agricultural plant genetic resources (APGR) are must important for securing
food and nutrition in the country and world. Diversity at species as well as genetic levels is …

With realization and importance of the agricultural/plant genetic resources (A/PGRs),
Genebank alias National Agriculture Genetic Resources Center (NAGRC) was established …