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Farmer Training
Full courses for working farmers — taught in Nepali and Maithili, with the practical done in the field.
Written for someone who already farms.
Farmer training is the university's main extension course. It assumes the participant already knows their land and their crop, and works on the parts where practice and evidence have drifted apart — seed rate, spacing, fertiliser timing, when a spray is actually needed, what to do with a crop after it is cut.
Courses are held both at the training centre and in the villages, and a group that cannot travel can ask for the course to come to it. Participation is free; where a course runs more than a day, the arrangements are stated in the notice announcing it.
Subjects covered
- 01Seed selection, seed treatment and nursery raising
- 02Soil testing and fertiliser use based on the result
- 03Integrated pest management — scouting before spraying
- 04Irrigation scheduling and water-saving practice
- 05Vegetable and fruit production for the market
- 06Livestock feeding, housing and routine animal health
- 07Post-harvest handling, grading and storage
- 08Farm records, costing and market information