International Journal of Graduate Research and Review

123-126

Authors: Keshav Bhusal, Subodh Pokhrel, Subash Bandari

Nepal is an agricultural country with diversified ecosystem and equally a prolific tourism hub. Nepal has numerous quality to endorse tourism and attract tourist. Diverse agro-ecology, favorable climatic condition, richness in flora and fauna, unique culture and traditional practice adhered by the peace and pastoral paradise are the features which can firmly attract tourists from various countries. In such circumstances, agro eco-tourism can be a tool for branding local, organic and traditional products developing the entrepreneurships in rural areas, creating job opportunities capitalizing the youth for development of nation which can be the mere source of satisfaction and glory. With the diversified agro-ecological zones the diversification of tourism sector can be done to build the national economy. Majority of people adopts subsistence farming due to lack of innovativeness, transformation and the proper utilization of the available resources. The forthcoming collective approach of agriculture, ecology and the tourism can bring the sustainability of the enterprises and widens the employment opportunities.In this article authors has summarized all of the policies implemented and suggests the promotional strategies for agro-ecotourism with an extent to help the Nepalese government for the celebration of “Visit Nepal year 2020”-a life time experiences for the development of tourism industry in Nepal.

129-133

Authors: Shailesh Gurung, Sumnima Dhakal, Ashish Chaudhary, Prabin Paudel, Birendra Shrestha, Dipendra Mishra

The experiment was conducted in Aquaculture lab of IAAS, Paklihawa, Rupandehi district from 6th February 2018 to 6th April 2018. The research was conducted for the evaluation of the effect of different probiotics on growth and feed utilization of Catfish (Clarias batracus) under laboratory condition. One hundred and sixty eight catfish fries with average initial weight 1.60-1.70gm were stocked in 12 glass aquarium tank of size 12”*24”*12” each half-filled with water and aerated continuously using an air compressor. The stocking density of catfish fries was 14 fish per aquarium. The experiment was performed at completely randomized block design with 4 treatments and 3 replications. The treatments were T1 Control (Rice bran + MOC), T2 (Rice bran + MOC + Microguard), T3 (Rice bran + MOC + Nicoli) and T4 (Rice bran + MOC + Grozyme). Probiotics i.e. Microguard, Grozyme and Nicoli was each applied at the rate of 2 % of total weight of supplementary feed (Rice bran and MOC) in T2, T3 and T4 respectively. Feed was allocated to each aquaria at the rate of 8 % of total body weight of fish. Water quality parameters pH, DO and Temperature was measured on weekly basis and Ammonia, Nitrate and Nitrite was measured fortnightly. The average pH varied from 8.1 to 8.4 within 2 months while the DO varied from 5.4 mg/l to 7.9 mg/l. The temperature was found optimum ranging from 19.6oC to 24.10C during the experimental period. Mean nitrate concentration ranged from 0.1 to 2.67 ppm concentration while mean nitrite level ranged from 0ppm to 3.5ppm and the mean ammonia level range from 0.21 ppm to 5.33 ppm. The mean total harvest weight of T2 (Feed mixed with Probiotics/Microguard) was found highest with 39.66 gm seemed fairly high in comparison to the other treatments during the experimental period. Considerably, the mean individual harvest weight in T2 was also found highest with 2.99 gm among other treatments. Moreover, Specific Growth Rate (SGR) of catfish in T2 during the experimental period was also display the best performance with 22.86 than other treatments. Hence Probiotics i.e. Microguard has good performance in terms of growth rate and feed utilization than other probiotics.

144-148

Authors: Amar Bahadur Pun, Hari Prasad Subedi, Manish Kumar Thakur

Nepal has a rich diversity of acid lime, having commercial importance in terms of fruit maturing time and quality. The study on the variety selection and evaluation of local acid lime genotypes has been conducted in the eastern region of Nepal since 2005. Ten local genotypes were evaluated for their morphological and fruit yield characteristics. The research results revealed that genotypes: NCRP-49 and NCRP-55 were found superior among the genotypes with higher yield potential for upland Terai condition. The genotype NCRP-55 produced 947 fruits/plant having 383.0 cm tree height with average fruit weight of 55.2 g and yield of 66.8 kg/plant, while genotype NCRP-49 had 284.2 cm tree height, producing 793 fruits/plant per annum with average fruit weight of 53.1 g and fruit yield of 50.9 kg/plant. However, other genotypes NCRP-53, NCRP-56 and NCRP-47 were also promising for the higher yield. Thus, these genotypes should be proposed for the variety release in the future.

156-160

Authors: Hina Samuel, Muhammad Afsor, Muhammad Afzal, Syed Amir Gilani

Introduction: The attitude of community towards menstrual hygiene and the awareness of its health consequences to offspring remain largely ignored. Methods: The purpose of the study is to the knowledge of rural community towards heath risk due to menstrual hygiene, attitude of rural community towards benefits regarding menstrual hygiene and practice of rural community regarding menstrual hygiene in the rural community. Results: The results are shown in 31 tables and 27 figures have been used to show results. The results of the study and discussion show that rural community has illiteracy regarding heath risk for offspring due to menstrual hygiene, results shows that they are women need to be educated about MHM and significance of menstruation and use of satisfactory absorbent material so as to enable them to lead a healthy reproductive life. Conclusions: In the present investigation, the greater part of the women (80.4 %) procured learning with respect to menstruation from their moms, trailed by neighbors and relatives. Part of instructors was watched irrelevant in conferring training about different parts of menstrual cycle in spite of the way that data on period given by the mother is frequently fragmented and erroneous Women (43.4%) in our investigation were terrified at the season of their first monthly cycle which means that they had no/little information about monthly cycle before its beginning.