| National Agricultural Mechanization Committee |
National Agricultural Mechanization Committee is Chaired
by the Secretary of Agriculture and Cooperatives, in the Government
of Nepal. Under the Ministry
of Agriculture and Cooperatives the NAMC was first formed
with support of the UN's Regional Network for Agricultural
Machinery (RNAM, now known as UN's
Asian Pacific Center for Agricultural Engineering and Machinery
) and was to be a a national round table for discussion of
the needs and . Though it was active in its earlier years
the NAMC became dormant for a long period in the 1990s. Beginning
in 2000 NAEF and its partners and its partners CIMMYT,
and the Agricultural Machinery Merchants Association AMMA
(NAEF aided in AMMA's formation in 2003) supported regular
yearly meetings of NAMC till 2005. These meetings helped restart
a national dialogue that was crucial for informing policy
makers and government officials of not only the needs, but
also what was actually happening around in and near Nepal
in regards to socially equitable rural and agricultural mechanization
processes. For over a decade rural and agricultural mechanization
fell off the radar screens of the government and donors and
there was literally no one department, agency. or discipline
left to monitor what was actually happening in the farmers
field. Many do not realize that lot of mechanization had happen
even with the past laisser-faire attitude. One of the positive
outcomes has been that the Department of Agriculture created
in 2005 the Agricultural Engineering Directorate. Even more
recently is the specific inclusion of targeted agricultural
mechanization in MOACs 2006 three year strategic agricultural
development plan. And just now September 2008 Nepal's President
Yadov specifically called for agricultural mechanization visa
RCT adoption in his first budget speech. Below you can click
on the links to find out more about NAMC and its past meetings.
May 2005 NAMC Meeting
Report
of NAMC May 2005 Meeting compiled by NAEF
Stephen
Biggs Presentation_Rural Growth Linkages
Agricultural Machinery
Merchants Association Report Nepalese bhasa
Amar Karki Presentation
(President of National Society Agricultural Engineers)
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