Technical Education on Trail : A Case of Rice Seed Hybridiztion for Food Security in Nepal

Abstract

Nepal government has implemented the technical education stream in secondary level schooling and included agriculture as the one of the major subjects. SSRP has envisioned the quality of technical education in trial. The program may be successful if we deliver the quality service with enough competencies of teachers to deliver the content. Rice is one of the major crops growing in different low lands including hills and Terai in Nepal. The traditional Nepali rice varieties possess low yield potentialities, in spite of suitable varietal characteristics like disease and pest resistance, tolerance to local conditions, and local taste. In this article the