Coffee cultivation: Nepal could make huge gains

Agriculture is the backbone of the national economy. About 57 percent of the population is involved in farming which contributes around 38 percent to the GDP. Nepal's agriculture has taken a step forward by going commercial recently. Among the cash corps cultivated in Nepal, coffee is a high value cash crop commercially grown in many parts of the country with environmental importance and is growing popular among the Nepalese since the last few decades. At present, coffee cultivation is spread in over two dozen districts of the mid hill regions. Coffee, a commercial crop, requires an exceptionally apposite geographic and climatic condition in the country.