In Nepal, agriculture is not the priority sector of the youth farmers. There are many policies and strategies targeted to youth, but the youths are unable to sustain in their business as they lack productive assets, mainly capital assets. The youths are not trusted by the financial institutions and are not involved in policymaking process and their voices always remained disregarded. The productive youths are also given less priority in capacity development trainings and are less exposed to the stakeholders.

Agroforestry system is practiced by most farmers but an in-depth understanding of its scientific application for biodiversity conservation is lacking. Young farmers lack capacity development activities and grants to support their enterprises due to which they are compelled to migrate to gulf countries in search of better employment.

CTCF, Nepal has a youth subcommittee and the youth committee developed three years strategic plan to increase youth involvement in agriculture. CTCF has been conducting different kinds of training i.e capacity development, technical and vocational training.

CTCF, Nepal organized three days virtual training under the project entitled “Improved capacity of the youth committee members on Lobby Advocacy skills, Sustainable Agriculture and Enterprise Development” from 15 to 17th July, 2021 using zoom platform and distributed tea and Kiwi Seedlings, training on lobby and advocacy, lobby to access to finance, access to market, etc. CTCF Nepal is implementing different projects in coordination with national and international organizations like AFA, Agriterra, Dakchyata (British Council), and government organizations.

Altogether, 18 youth farmers and leaders engaging in different cooperatives and private sectors from eight districts participated in the training. The objective of the training was to orient the youth farmers towards Sustainable farming practices and supplement them with the inputs to support their enterprises. The training participants and their families were engaged in agriculture/family farming from the past and present.