4. Problems and Challenges

In the absence of an integrated land use policy, various problems have emerged in terms of utilizing the country's overall land in an appropriate manner and achieving maximum benefits. Since the effectiveness of land use work depends on internal coordination, due to its lack, the arrangements in the sectoral policies and the provisions in the existing laws and regulations have not been implemented effectively. Arable land is shrinking due to unorganized and uncontrolled urbanization, while encroachment on government and public land under various names is increasing. Maximum benefit could not be taken by utilizing the land properly. Agricultural production is declining due to the uncontrolled fragmentation of land. Due to the lack of appropriate policies, arable land is used for non-agricultural purposes, and the production and productivity cannot be increased, which has adversely affected food security and sovereignty. In order to solve the mentioned problems, it is necessary to formulate a suitable policy and implement it. For this, bringing about a change in the current thinking in Nepali society that uses land as an asset, activating political will in relation to land use, developing and expanding the necessary resources and institutional capacity for the implementation of land use related programs, making internal coordination effective, etc. are problems and challenges. are in the form of .