Shree Kumar Maharjan, Ph.D. International Cooperation Studies

Shree Kumar Maharjan (2009, Aug 8 Friday 2066, Shrawan 24) It was first time taking decision to do such adventurous event in my life. We ( Shashish, Sujata and Me ) were just walking around the Kumari Cinema Hall searching for Japanese language institute. First we went to Reukai Building and then went for watching 4-D movie in city center. It was nice to see such movie in nepal. The movie 'Insectopia' was too short i.e., only 15 minutes. We enjoyed a lot watching the 4-D movie, the film with length, breath, high and also motion. On the way back from Center, We were discussing about Bungy and immediately Sujata called Mrs Mala and we planned to go for jump on saturday (2009, Aug 9). We all agreed to jump and went to book ticket at thamel. At the moment, we called some of frens to join with us and Rajib Maharjan and Manjil Man Singh agreed to go with us. Then we booked it and went for Coffee at Himalayan Java. At night, I was thinking about the jump we planned and paid for nextda...

Shree Kumar Maharjan With the initiation of the tourism industry in Nepal, Religious tourism is playing significant role in development and promotion of tourism. Nepal is well known country for the living Goddess Kumari; having festivals more than days in a year; gods more than the people in a country and temples more than the houses, it is home of several religions of the world and has large number of shrines dedicated to various gods/goddesses and catering to different religions. Pashupatinath temple, Manakamana temple, Janaki temple, Lumbini, Changu Narayan, Macchendranath Ratha Yatra, Gosainkunda and Dakshinkali temple are well known religious sites of the country. Regular and frequent visit to these sites by different foreigners and domestic visitors plays important role in improving lifestyles of the surrounding communities and advertising of tourism throughout the historical movement in Nepal. Kirtipur is a small artistic municipality and an old settlement on a double hillock in...

Shree Kumar Maharjan Background Ropai Jatra or Mela is a festival celebrated for planting rice in the farmers’ fields, in which group of farmers and other participants including tourists plough and levels the field using pair of bullocks, plant the rice seedlings singing traditional folk songs (called ASARE GEET in local language). It is celebrated on Asad 15 of nepali year (i.e., June 29) every year as a symbol of end of planting period in most of the areas. In recent years, it is gaining popularity in the various parts of Nepal, due to increased interests and participations of tourists and tourism organizations and addition of some interesting events and competitions on muddy paddy fields like Folk song competitions, planting rice competitions, Bull race competition playing with mud (HILO KHELNE in Nepali), serving traditional food items, playing PANCHE BAJA (traditional musical instrument) as a symbol of good fortune and several other entertaining games. This ceremony is important f...

Honey Hunting is the real and frequent activity of indigenous Gurung and Magar Community in Bhujung and Pasgaon for honey hunting from which they are able to solve their problem of bread and butter. This ancestral job of honey hunting still continues in many remote villages of Nepal while offering high tourism potential. A large section of travelers are increasingly showing their interest in honey hunting thereby ensuring staple sources of local revenue generation, besides Ghalegoan Bhujung and the hole of Annapurna region, Dhading and Jharlang across Ganesh Himal Arun valley in Makalu and other trekking areas have become Popular for honey hunting, a new tourist activity but in Nepal except Bhujung area of Annapurna region, special package of Honey hunting for tourist is not developed yet. Nerveless few lucky tourist get chance to observe honey hunting on spot while traveling along the trekking routes. There are myriad be nests found in the inner and outer rings of different trekking a...

Shree Kumar Maharjan, LI-BIRD, Nepal Western Terai Landscape Complex Project (WTLCP) is landscape level conservation project implemented in Far-Western Region of the Nepal as a new paradigm in conservation arena. It is joint program agreed between the Government of Nepal and the UNDP. The overall goal of the project is to ensure the conservation and sustainable use of globally and locally significant biodiversity in Western Terai regions of the country, with the aim of establishing effective management systems and building capacity of the farmers, stakeholders and local professionals for the conservation and sustainable use in that region of Nepal. Local Initiatives for Biodiversity Research and Development (LI-BIRD), an NGO, is one of partners for this project focused its activities in the conservation and sustainable use of agro-biodiversity in this region. LI-BIRD is implementing WTLCP project in 6 VDCs out of 51 VDCs and one municipality for agrobiodiversity component within Bardiy...

Participatory tools to analyze Eeuwig Moes Network for the conservation and use of indigenous and forgotten vegetables: A case study from the Netherlands (Working Paper) Shree Kumar Maharjan1, Nattaya Montri 2, Alfred Oduor Odindo3, Bayush Tsegaye4, Shyamala Subbareddy5, Huni Tambudzayi6, Ibidunni Sakirat7 1Nepal, 2Thailand, 3Kenya, 4Ethiopia, 5India, 6Zimbabwe, 7Nigeria Background Neglected and forgotten vegetables are those vegetables that are not in use these days due to various reasons. But recently, there are growing interests among conservationists and businessman for the conservation, use and promotion of such traditional and forgotten vegetables in The Netherlands and also all around the world. One of these indigenous vegetables in the Netherlands is Eeuwig Moes, cruciferous vegetable (Brassica oleracea var ramose) (fig.1). In the old days, it was used to be grown in early winters as a source of vitamin C, in home gardens. Traditional vegetables including Eeuwig Moes were vulne...

  A mushroom is the fruit of a fungus. Its purpose is to disperse spores, microscopic single cells that can grow into new fungi. The fungus looks like a series of branching threads infiltrating the soil or in the wood of living or dead trees. (These higher fungi, which produce mushrooms, consist of many cells. Single-cell lower fungi, which don't produce mushrooms, aren't covered here.) Mushrooms in different groups take different forms because they have diverse strategies for disseminating spores. Ecology There are many lingering superstitions and prejudices, people overlook mushrooms' essential roles in our environment. Some fungi interconnect to a tree's microscopic root hairs, taking glucose (simple sugar) in exchange for the minerals and water the fungus obtains from the soil, a symbiotic (living together) relationship called commensualism. The fungus may also create plant hormones that stimulate the tree to grow. About 80% of trees depend on these overlooked fungi...