About 1.97 million households registered in farmer listing system

By A Staff Reporter,Kathmandu, Jan. 25: About 47.7 per cent of farmers' households across the country have been registered in the farmer listing system so far.

According to the Agricultural Information and Training Centre under the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development, about 1.971 million farmer households have been registered in the farmer listing system by mid-January 2025. 

This is 47.7 per cent of the total farmer households across the country.

According to the National Agricultural Census, 2021, there are 4.13 million farmer households across the nation.

At a coordination seminar on provincial-level farmer registration organised by the Centre in Lalitpur on Thursday, chief of the Centre and Joint Secretary Dr. Ram Nandan Tiwari said that as per the secretary-level decision on December 6, the Centre has received the responsibility to collect the necessary details of farmers for farmer registration and manage and operate the electronic system. 

Even based on this, more than half of the farming families are yet to be listed in the government listing system. 

The centre said that the work of collecting details of farmers through an online system is currently underway at the local level.

Tiwari said that the farmer listing campaign has been taken forward in partnership with all three levels to identify farmers and formulate factual plans and programmes through the government and to enhance transparency and good governance of the services provided to farmers.

The farmer identification and registration programme has been operating by exercising the authority granted by Section 47 of the Right to Food and Food Sovereignty Act, 2075. 

The Ministry said that the Centre has been designated as the responsible body for the management and operation of the Farmer Registration System as per Section 6 of the Farmer Registration System Management and Operation Directive, 2081.

Joint Secretary Dr. Tiwari said that there are plans to identify and classify farmers through the system and link the farmer identity card with the national identity card and other software developed for farmers by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development, as much as possible.

He said that discussions and interactions have been held on the issue of linking farmer registration, as it needs to be linked to services provided to farmers, including agricultural insurance, agricultural loans, chemical fertilisers, seeds and subsidies.