Kedar Nepal

The essence of acquiring a foreign degree coupled with professional experience demands working with veterans and organizations that can shape your career. Having been through extensive Economic Analysis studies on a profound basis, I was keen to work in an international organization setting to explore new environments, learn and excel in my skills. With this motivation in mind, I am lucky to work as a Market Research Analyst for Thünen Institute, Bundesalle, Braunschweig, Germany. I am contibuting to a Project- Reducing German Soy Imports? Feasibility, Requirements, Consequences. The Project is interesting and harnesses different market-based instruments and experts' views and models that are commendable. The major task focuses on the analysis of the demand for protein animal feed, estimate future market-driven demand for GMO-free or regionally produced animal feed in Germany or Europe deploying official statistics, expert discussions, and web analysis, determine the agronomic a...

Having been through different fresh vegetable and fruit markets in Nepal, I was typically wondered if there were some in Germany. After exploring Germany, I came to know that in Hannover, there is also a farmers market that offers fresh fruits, vegetables, meat, fish, bread to consumers. The product is also offered at competitive prices compared to big supermarkets. The major astonishing factor of the market is the diversity of buyers and sellers. They are from different regions of the world- This market helps to achieve fresh products with diverse and seasonal fruits and vegetables.

Under the “European Union support to the competitiveness of quality coffee in Nepal”, Good Neighbors International (GNI) Nepal implemented  Coffee Value Chain Development Project (CVCDP) in partnership with Beautiful Coffee Nepal (BeaCoN) in Kaski, Syangja, Gulmi, and Palpa districts of western Nepal and in coordination with 60 Primary Coffee Cooperatives (PCCs) at village level and Union of Coffee Cooperatives at the district level.  This two-year-long Project started in March 2017 and ended in June 2019. The primary target group includes 3000 small-holder coffee farmers associated with Primary Coffee Cooperatives (PCCs) and the secondary target group includes institutions and market actors involved in the production, processing, and marketing of coffee in Nepal.  At the national level, the Project also aims at institutional strengthening of the National Tea and Coffee Development Board (NTCDB) through the establishment of a comprehensive information management system....

With some years of professional experience and a good academic degree of BSc. Agriculture, I was looking for an academic degree that could define me and shape my career and future. Having known with different scholarships around the globe, I tried to some of them and clicked my mind when I entered www.daad.de, Having glitches on the website, I started to work on it and prepared for the documentations and academic references and so on. with the six months long hardships, I was happy to receive the nomination email for DAAD scholarship which was not the final one. But after some weeks my dream came into reality when I was selected for DAAD scholar in an International course at Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany representing Nepal. www.daad.de https://www.uni-hannover.de/en/