Agriculture is the process of producing food, feed, fiber, and many other desired products by the cultivation of certain plants and the raising of domesticated animals (livestock). Nepal has traditionally been dependent on agriculture as a major contributor to its GDP. Even today 66% of Nepalese are involved in agriculture but the production is not even enough to feed half of the population. Nepal relies on age-old techniques that have traditionally provided enough to survive but with the right use of technology and innovation a rapid and drastic change can be brought on. Nepal has not embraced technical improvements to rapidly ramp up its production. With the right amount of advancement in technology, Nepal’s rich agrobiodiversity can change the import-based economy to an export-based one.

Vector hopes to bring out the best ideas and solutions that when applied in the community will impact production, storage, and distribution of agro products and decrease Nepal’s dependence on imports. The ideas presented in the technical festival under this theme can ease the process in any stage from giving the right training and knowledge to the farmers and encouraging youth to be involved in agriculture to aiding the production process to create a market for the produced products. As long as the idea makes the lives of farmers a tad easier and contributes to more production, it’s eligible. The competition hopes to be a breeding ground for ideas and hopes to bring out the best of the best Nepal has to offer and create a long-lasting impact on Agricultural practices in Nepal.

Main Theme:

• The idea must be practical and original.
• The feasibility of the idea in a practical context is of prime importance.
• Ideas can be highly specific( for example, focus on a single crop or animal) or be highly generalized ( applicable for crops or livestock from terai to hilly region but must take Nepal geography and needs into account.
• Impact of the idea in the production i.e how much did the idea increase production will be of prime importance.

Projects demonstration

• Each project will be given a stall of (2m X 3m) to demonstrate projects.
• At least one presenter must be available in a stall at any time.
• The presenter must describe their ideas to interested visitors.
• The arrival time of a jury team is informed only before 30 min.
• If the project malfunction at the time of presentation the team can still present their idea with a deduction of some points.

Point System:

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The jury team will decide the exact marking scheme but the marking scheme is based on the following theme.

• The idea with higher economical and technical feasibility is beneficial.* The economic burden during the application of the idea must be minimum while it must produce high economic output.
• The idea which can help farmers attain greater production and ease up the work will be preferred.
• The ideas must be scalable and applicable in the farms rather than complex ideas. However, the final decision will lie on the jury and will be based on the presentation.

Jury team
The Vector organizing committee will collaborate with the executive committee of the Free Students Union and Paschimanchal Campus to finalize the jury team. The decision made by the jury team will be fair and unguided. In case of the result of the competition the decision made by the jury team will be a final decision.

General Rules

• Each team will have 5 min for presentation in front of the jury team.
• The team must be present every day of the event.
• Any activities that bring disrespect to the jury team will be taken as an activity against the event so will be punished accordingly.
• The time of arrival of the jury team is informed in the stall. If none of the team members are present during jury visit the team will get 0 points and can be termed as eliminated.
• Participate should not dismantle their projects before completion of the whole competition.
• In case of any kind of dispute the decision made by the organizing committee will be a final and binding decisio​n.
  
  

Disqualification
The team with the following activity will be disqualified

• Violation of the general rule of the competition.
• Use of explosives, fires or dangerous chemical which may endanger life or property.
• Involvement or attempt of destruction of others project.
• Any form of plagiarism or any other form of cheating
• Behaviors that may offend or bring hurt to any caste, religion, sex or nationality.

Team Specification
A team may consist of a maximum of 5 members. There is no restriction for participation. Students from any part of the nation can form their teams with anyone. Students from any field can participate.

Eligibility
Any individual who is keen to share his/her ideas is open to participate. Anyone who wants to take part must fill up a Registration Form and pay an amount of Rs 500.

Rewards and Certification
A cash prize of Rs 50,000 along with certificates will be provided to the winning team. Every participating team will be given a Certificate of Participation.

Registration Information

• Teams must register for “Tourism” with names and two passport size photos of all the members within the end of Mangsir.
• A registration fee of Rs 500 has to be paid during registration (includes lunch set).