Sufficient harvest-yields despite low soil fertility : The special strategy of Nepalese mountain farmers
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The climatic-ecologically favourable location of the monsoon-tropical Nepal Himalayas finds its reflection in the high population density in the Lower Himalayas, reaching up to 400 inhabitants/km2 and - just like in other developing countries- still growing steadily. Agricultural yields having guaranteed the self-sufficiency of the population with staple food products for centuries are unexpectedly high considering the unfavourable relief and soil conditions so very typical of the Lower Himalayas.If the Lower Himalayas of Nepal give the impression, especially during the rainy season, of a luxuriant green landscape and if yields adequate for the self-sufficiency of a slowly but steadily growing mountain population have been attained for centuries, this is due to the fact that the population is well aware of how to successfully manage its natural environment: Nepalese mountain farmers have developed and handed down to subsequent generations special forms of argrarian technology which considerably reduce, if not eliminat, the given unfavourable ecological soil factors.Link to publications or other datasets
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Aspects of Nepalese traditions. Proceedings of a Seminar, Kathmandu 1990. Ed. by Bernhard Kölver. Stuttgart : Steiner 1992, S. 1-16