Status of Agriculture Genetic Resources Of Ramechhap district, Nepal

Agriculture genetic resources are any genetic material of actual or potential value for food and agriculture. Agriculture genetic resources include all cultivated plant landraces and varieties, modern varieties, obsolete varieties, breeding lines, recombinant inbred lines (RILs), genetic stocks, near-isogenic lines (NILs), differential lines, exotic genetic resources, wild edible plants, and wild relatives of crops. Nepal is richly endowed with numerous agricultural crops and plants. The variation in temporal, altitudinal, topographical and aspects has made agricultural such biodiversity possible. Comprising less than 0.1% of the earth’s land area, Nepal is home to about 600 species of food plants, 400 species of agro-horticultural crops, 60 species of wild edible fruits, 200 species of commercially important medicinal and aromatic plants, 300 species of orchids, 5000 species of insects, 185 species of fishes, and a variety of other economically and ecologically important spec...