Population Growth

Agriculture forms the principal occupation of the people of Nepal.A large majority of the people of our country are peasants.The peasant live mostly in villages.They are found on the hills,in the valleys and the plains.Though Nepal is a small country,the peasants of our country differ from region to region in dress,language and customs.
Broadly speaking the peasant of Nepal are poor.They live in small houses or huts.They eat poor food and wear regged clothes.Most of them are illiterate.They are too much occupied with their work.They do not know what is happening occupied with their work.They do not know what is happening in the world.They live in midst of uncleaned surrounding.They are ignorant of hygiene and sanitation.They suffer from disease.They are so poor that they cannot send their children to school.
Most of the peasant have small plot of land.The product of the land is hardly sufficient to maintain themselves and their families.Most of them cannot get two meals a day.They have hardly any subsidary occupation.They remain idle in the off seasons.Some peasant have no land of their own.They cultivate the land of other.Such landless peasant are poorer then the landed peasants.
The peasants are very busy in the working season.They work in the fields from down to dusk.They are helped by their wives and children.They work with spads and holes.The peasant of the plains plough their fields with the help of oxen.while those of the hills and the valleys generally dig their fields with spads.The peasant tame animals like cows,oxen,goat and sheep.These animals help them in their work and they are a source of small income.
The peasants generally follow the traditional method of cultivation.The produce of their land is not high.They do not use good seeds and fertilizer.They do not have irrigational facilities.They cannot sell their produce at a profitable rate.They have to market their goods in their own localities.They are hard hit by the scarcity of roads.
The peasants of our country also must be willing and active to improve themself .They owe a duty to themselves to the country to move forward.They should cast off their traditional out look and change their mood of living and working.They should march with the times and cooperate with those who try to help them. Until and unless the peasants come forward and strive to improve themselvves,nobody can do much to help them.They must be prepared to help themselves and others who seek to help them.