Dr. Tika Bahadur Karki

Dr.  Karki has recently retired from the post of Director of Crops and Horticulture Research at Nepal Agriculture Research Council (NARC), Nepal. He served the National Agricultural Research System (NARS) for 36 years in various capacities starting from Junior Technician (JT) at the then British government operated Lumle Agriculture Centre (LAC) to the Director at NARC, Nepal. Dr. Karki has completed his M.Sc. in Agronomy from Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), Pusa, New Delhi, India and Ph.D. in Agronomy having the dissertation entitled “Identifying Pathways for improving Food Security Outcomes in Two Contrasting Production Ecologies of Hills and Terai in Nepal”, from Institute of Agriculture and Animal Sciences (IAAS), Tribhuvan University, Nepal. Dr. Karki is presently the president of agronomy society of Nepal and member of many communities of practices. He had a long experience of planning and monitoring in NARCs research projects across its 62 cost centers across the country. He has successfully implemented and completed the hundreds of research projects in the field of agronomy, soil and seed science, food security and livelihoods, farming systems, climate change and biodiversity conservation. Dr. Karki has been instrumental in digging out the farmers’ researchable problems across all agro-ecologies and farming systems and translating them into research agenda. Throughout his career, he has been working with various farming communities’ on-station and off-station in generating resource use efficient and climate resilient crop genotypes and their management technologies. While serving the NARC’s outreach program, he has been involved in preparing the agriculture plan of the village/VDCs/municipalities. Dr. Karki has experience of working with international organizations like UNDP, SDC, JICA, USAID, CIMMYT, IRRI, ICRISAT, ICARDA, and ICIMOD. He has published the hundreds of articles in international and national peer-reviewed journals and farmer’s friendly package of practices in Nepali version. Dr. Karki has developed the modality of Farmers Field School (FFS), in order to outreach the communities on climate resilient practices and has also trained the hundreds of trainers as a master trainer in carrying out the FFS on climate resilient technologies across the country. He is also keen to disaster risk management due to climate change.