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What programmes should be launched by government bodies to enhance the productivity in slopy land?
I'm a scientist working in government to set strategic agendas for the academic research needed to create more resilience food supply and more sustainable agriculture in the UK. I would with DEFRA and farmers unions like the NFU.
Your question is complicated. The government doesn't tend to focus policy or strategy on very niche areas, such as marginal land, but will build them into bigger strategies. There are currently plenty of policies and strategies about improving productivity and resilience of food production (for example locking carbon in the soil and climate change resilient crops to cope with heat stress and drought). The government doesn't want to micromanage farmers but let market forces push farmers to be more productive, as they would make more money and so want to make optimum use of the land.
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I focus on the UK, so I can't really advise specifically on Nepal. I have worked with internal aid organisations and transport logistics is an issue. Leaving land fallow, especially land in hilly or mountainous areas which has only a small fertile layer and is easily eroded, is not necessarily a problem and may protect the land, and give a home for biodiversity. You don't need to make every piece of land highly productive. But there are ways to farm this using regenerative techniques which can help reduce erosion and select crops suitable for this land, but it likely won't be high yielding and you still have the transport logistic issues.