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Dr. Y. S. Parmar University of Horticulture & Forestry, Solan
Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Solan, was established on 1st December, 1985 with the objective to promote education, research and extension education in the fields of Horticulture, Forestry and allied disciplines. Late Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar, the first Chief Minister and the architect of Himachal Pradesh perceived the importance of Horticulture and Forestry to develop and improve the State economy which led to the establishment of this University. Its history lies in erstwhile Himachal Agricultural College, Solan, established in 1962 and affiliated to the Panjab University. It became one of the campuses of Agriculture Complex of Himachal Pradesh University on its formation in 1970. Consequent upon the establishment of Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishvavidyalaya in 1978, this campus became its Horticulture Complex and finally in 1985, assumed the status of a State University, being the only University in the country engaged exclusively in teaching, research and extension in Horticulture and Forestry.
The University is located at Nauni in Solan District of Himachal Pradesh, 13 km from Solan on Solan-Rajgarh Road, at an elevation of 1300 metres above mean sea level. Solan town is situated on national highway (NH-22) and is well connected by train and bus services.
The University has four constituent colleges, out of which, two are located at the main campus Nauni, one for horticulture and the other for forestry, having 9 and 7 departments, respectively. The third College i.e., College of Horticulture & Forestry is located at Neri in Hamirpur District on Nadaun-Hamirpur state highway, about 6 Km from Hamirpur town and is well connected with bus service. The college offers three Undergraduate Degree Programmes i.e. BSc (Hons.) Horticulture, BSc (Hons.) Forestry and B. Tech. Biotechnology and MSc degree programme in a few subjects. The fourth college i.e. College of Horticulture and Forestry, Thunag (Mandi) is located at Thunag District Mandi. This college offer BSc (Hons.) Horticulture and BSc (Hons.) Forestry degree programme. In addition, there are five Regional Research Stations, 12 Satellite Stations and five Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs) situated in different zones of the State.
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ThesisItem Open Access MARKET INTEGRATION AND PRICE TRANSMISSION BEHAVIOUR IN APPLE MARKETS OF INDIA(UHF,NAUNI, 2019-03) SHILPA; SHARMA, RAVINDERABSTRACT The present study entitled “Market Integration and Price Transmission Behaviour in Apple Markets of India” investigated the integration among five major apple markets i.e., Dhalli(Shimla), Chandigarh, Bengalore, Azadpur(Delhi) and Mumbai. The trends in area, production, productivity and export of apple were analysed at national and state level. The results of state-wise trend analysis during 2006-07 to 2015-16 revealed highest growth rate in area (2.72%/annum) and production (6.46 %/annum) was found in J&K and Himachal Pradesh respectively. The trends of apple area and production in India were analyzed by dividing the study period into two sub periods viz. 1960-61 to 1990-91(P-I) and 1991-92 to 2015-16(P-II) and the results revealed significant positive growth in both the periods with highest growth (6.23%/annum) in P-1 and variability in area was also higher in P-I as compared to P-II. Trends in production of apple recorded a significant positive growth in apple production during both the periods with highest growth rate of 7.11 percent per annum during P-I, whereas, variability was highest during P-II (4.58). The productivity was increasing significantly during P-II (2.73%/annum) and (0.32%/annum) in overall period, whereas, declininggrowth was foundduring P-I (-0.28%/annum). Decomposition analysis of apple production in India revealed that in P-I production variation in apple was mainly due to area effect, whereas, in P-II, it was due to yield effect. But in overall period area effectwas recorded. Period-wise and areas wise trends were also analysed for Himachal Pradesh from 1973-74 to 2015-16 and the results revealed highest growth rate in area of 3.78 percent per annum during P-I in potential areas. The growth rates in production in potential areas showed significant increase, while, marginal areas showed declining growth in all periods except P-II, that exhibit highest growth rates in production (5.86%/annum). Growth rates in productivity showed significant increase in P-II in all the apple growing areas with maximum growth in potential areas (3.88%/annum) except marginal areas that showed significant decline in productivity in P-I and overall period. The decomposition analysis revealed that production variation in all areas in HP during P-I was due to area effect except marginal areas, whereas P-II was marked by yield effect in all apple growing areas on the account of varietal improvement. But, the overall increase in production was due to area expansion except marginal areas. Export trends of apple from India revealed that it is a net importer of apple as a verymeager share only 1.5 per cent of its production base was exported. The 99 per cent of apple is exported to SAARC nations. The results of seasonality analysis revealed that that price seasonality of apple markets varied between 23.43 to 93.26 per cent. The highest seasonal variation was found in Shimla market whereas, lowest in Delhi market. Co integration analysis revealed that the five selected apple markets although geographically dispersed and spatially separated, yet they depict long run price association. As per Pair-wise Granger causality there were unidirectional causality between market pairs; Shimla-Chandigarh, Delhi-Chandigarh wholesale markets and bidirectional causality between Mumbai-Shimla, DelhiShimla, Bengaluru-Shimla and Bengaluru-Chandigarh and no causality between pairs; Delhi-Mumbai, ChandigarhMumbai, Bengaluru-Mumbai and Bengaluru-Delhi. The impulse response function revealed that apple prices in all the markets reacts immediately to the shock by going down initially for 4 to 5 months and then it stabilizes for the remaining period i.e., the process of price transmission was very quick in selected markets. Structure, conduct and performance analysis was also performed for Dhalli, Solan, Chandigarh and Azadpur markets which revealed that Chandigarh and Dhalli markets are highly competitive having GCR of 0.33 and 0.32 respectively, while Delhi and Solan are comparatively less competitive having GCR of 0.51 and 0.56. Market infrastructure index revealed that Azadpur and Chandigarh were found comparatively developed markets with respect to infrastructure as compared to Dhalli and Solan market. Market performance studies revealed that Azadpur market followed by Dhalli market are the more efficient markets as compared to Chandigarh and Solan marketsThesisItem Open Access ECONOMIC IMPACT OF MID HIMALAYAN WATERSHED DEVELOPMENT PROJECT ON AGRICULTURAL FARMS IN HIMACHAL PRADESH(UHF,NAUNI, 2018-05-24) GULERIA, AMIT; RANDEV, A.K.ABSTRACT The present study has been carried out in the purposively selected Solan, Sirmour and Mandi districts of the state by selecting randomly a sample of 270 respondents comprising of 180 beneficiaries and 90 nonbeneficiaries, in terms of 2:1 ratio for the comparison of both the categories of respondents. The results revealed that average family size at overall level comprises of 5.54 and 5.44 persons and sex ratio has been found to be 910 and 921 females per thousand males for beneficiary and non-beneficiary farms, respectively. The overall literacy rate has been found to be 91.67 and 89.89 per cent, while literacy index has been worked out to be 2.69 and 2.60 for beneficiary and non-beneficiary farms, respectively. Agriculture has been found to be the main occupation as 72.29 per cent of workforce practice farming on beneficiary farms and 73.95 per cent on nonbeneficiary farms. Average size of land holding has been found to be 1.29 and 1.34 ha on beneficiary and nonbeneficiary farms respectively. The cultivated land and orchard area accounted for 41.62 and 1.65 per cent of total land holding in case of beneficiary farms whereas 33.80 and 0.13 per cent of total land holding for nonbeneficiary farms at overall basis. Irrigated land has been found to be 28.00 and 10.63 per cent of total land holding in case of beneficiary and non-beneficiary farms, respectively. The overall cropping intensity of beneficiary farms has been 196.51 per cent which has been significantly higher than the overall cropping intensity of non-beneficiary farms i.e. 156.96 per cent, indicating a shift towards high-value cash crops and better use of land resources accomplished by more irrigation available on beneficiary farms. Overall adult cattle unit (ASU) has found to be 3.65 on beneficiary farms and 2.86 on non-beneficiary farms. Agriculture sector has contributed a major share in total household income on both types of farms. The Gini Concentration Ratio has lower value (0.3831) for beneficiaries as compared to non-beneficiaries (0.4296), indicating that the income has been found to be more evenly distributed among beneficiaries. Productivity, total household income, gross farm income, net farm income and output input ratio have been found to be higher on beneficiary farms as compared to non-beneficiary farms. Beneficiary farms have utilized more land under high value crops than cereals as compared to non-beneficiary farms. Per hectare utilization of labour, fertilizer, seed and plant protection measures have been found to be lower on beneficiary farms as compared to non-beneficiary farms, whereas, more labour for irrigation has been utilized by beneficiary farms. In functional analysis, the included variables explained 95.0 per cent of variation in major crops for beneficiary and 98.0 percent for non-beneficiary farms in overall category and both types of farms have been operating in increasing return to scale i.e., 1.28 and 1.23 respectively, significant at p<0.01 indicating sub optimal use of most of the inputs. A significant positive difference has been found between beneficiary and non-beneficiary farms as values of dummy variable has worked out to be +0.06 indicating positive contribution of each input added to their gross income by 0.06 per cent. In spite, of the above benefits from the project, beneficiaries encountered some major problems viz. price fluctuations in perishable crops (76.75 %), stray/wild animal menace (72.38 %) and ineffectiveness of gram panchayats (60.56 %). The study has suggested to increase cold storage facility; to frame policy for wild animal menace specially monkey; to provide good extension services and stream line working of gram panchayats.ThesisItem Open Access GROWTH AND DIVERSIFICATION OF AGRICULTURE IN MOUNTAIN AREAS: A CASE STUDY OF HIMACHAL PRADESH(UHF,NAUNI, 2018-02) NISHA, DEVI; PRASHER, RAGHBIR SINGHABSTRACT “Crop diversification has emerged an important alternative to attain the objectives of output growth, employment generation and natural resources sustainability in the developing countries. The diversification with commercial crops is now a key strategy that can increase agricultural incomes and minimizes risks due to crop failures. The necessary data used in the current study has been collected from two sources. The primary data was collected from the farmers in four districts of Himachal Pradesh, all from different ecological zones and the secondary data has been collected for a period of 38 years from 1972-73 to 2009-10 from various organizations in Himachal Pradesh. Growth rate, Herfindahl Index, Entropy Index, Simpson Index and Multiple step wise linear regression analysis, Garret ranking technique, F-test, Chow test, Coefficient of Variation were implied for the analysis of data. Growth rates estimated for changes in area and production under different fruits and vegetables crops showed a significant positive growth while the productivity of these crops were low and continue to oscillate over a period of time. Analysis of Herfindahl indices over a period from 1972-73 to 2011-12 revealed that Bilaspur, Chamba, Hamirpur, Kangra, Mandi, Solan and Una were the districts depicting a trend towards specialized agriculture at varying rates. The values of Herfindahl indices were, however, less than 0.5 for all the districts. On the contrary, Kinnaur, Lahaul & Spiti, Kullu, Shimla and Sirmour witnessed tendency towards diversified agriculture at varying extents. Within crop groups some definite trend of diversification was seen in the vegetable group where the Herfindahl index value has shown a decreasing trend from 0.591 in 1972-73 to 0.205 in 2011-12 indicating thereby the clear trend of diversification. Results of log linear regression analysis showed that in zone-I and II agricultural diversification was positively while in zone-III & IV was negatively related with farm productivity and market problems/integration were negatively related with farm productivity in all the zones. Because the selected districts of Zone-III and IV are already diversified. Lack of irrigation facilities, small land holding, price fluctuation, distant markets, inadequate storage facilities, problem in the availability of water resources and incidence of diseases and insect pests attack were the major constraints related to production, marketing and ecology in the study area which were ranked by Garrett Ranking technique.ThesisItem Open Access Common property resources and rural livelihood security: A study of common pasturelands in hills of Nepal(YSPU, 2012) Regmi, Sudarshan Prasad; Sharma, RavinderThe study analyzed the linkages of common property resources (pastureland) with the rural livelihood security of people in Rasuwa district of Nepal. A stratified multistage random sampling design was used to select a sample of 180 respondents from three different climatic zones, viz., temperate (2000-3000 masl), sub-alpine (3000-4000 masl) and alpine (4000-5000 masl). The selected samples were further classified as users’ and non-users’ depending upon their dependence on common pastureland. The result of the study revealed that 63.33 per cent of sampled respondents were users and 83.33 per cent were exclusively dependent on agricultural farming. The pasture to herder ratio was found higher in the temperate zoneand lower in sub-alpine and alpine zone indicatingthat as the altitude increased the number of herder also increased. A maximum likelihood estimates using Tobit model was used to determine collective effort for the pastureland management. It was revealed that area of common pastureland, Gini ratio and income from livestock were positively and significantly whereas, membership to local organization and quadratic form of Gini ratio were negatively and significantly affected the management of the common pastureland. The Tobit analysis revealed that probability in thecollective effort of an average illiterate farmer having Gini ratio of 0.40 and non-member to local organization with landholding of 0.30 ha has probability of 0.261; which further decreased to 0.197 with increased landholding (0.60ha). Further increase in educational level from illiterate to primary lowered in probability to 0.158. The condition of pastureland in physical term and availability of forage were high in alpine zone than the other regions and overall condition was found to be fair to good; with highly weed infestation and unwanted shrubs (56.12 %). The major determinants of the good pastureland condition found using Tobit analysis; were land holding, land to man ratio, family size, household work force, forage availability index andthe status of respondent being user of the pastureland. The findings explicitly indicated that livestock income contributed 51.89 per cent to user household income whereas remittance as off-farm income constituted 59.92 per cent of the non-users’ household income. It was found that food availability based on their own production level of wheat, rice and maize) was deficit in all categories of respondent and climatic zones. Whereas, when potato crop was considered as stable food, then the food available become sufficient. The analyze of the major determinants for willingness to pay for betterment of pastureland condition inferred that were cost of stay, management level, and livestock units were found positively and significantly, and family size and value of resource use negatively and significantly affecting the willingness to pay of with cost of stay being most important (<0.01) factor for both users and non-users of the pastureland. It was further investigated that probability of extent for willingness to pay (WTP) for average respondent in the study area increased with increased in cost of stay, livestock income and family size. The expected amount of WTP for average respondent in overall situation varied from NRs. 304.53 to 680.00 ha 1 yr 1, whereas, in case of nonuser it varied from NRs. 216.58 to 362.62 ha 1 yr 1 . In case of users it increased from NRs.2163.29 to2666505.45 ha 1 yr 1 implying thereby that users were highly motivated to pay more than the non-users in the study area. Itwas revealed that respondents were willing to pay higher price for the higher quality of pastureland improvement. The findings of the present study strongly recommend that there should be a separate pastureland policy to bring several activities related to the pastureland management so that livelihood of the users may be strengthening in future.ThesisItem Open Access COMMON PROPERTY RESOURCES AND THEIR MANAGEMENT: A CASE STUDY OF DISTRICT KINNAUR IN HIMACHAL PRADESH(UHF,NAUNI, 2017) CHAMAN, LAL; PRASHER, R.S.ABSTRACT The study analyzed the common property resources and their management systems in Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh. Multistage stratified random sampling design was used to select a sample of 180 respondents from three different developmental blocks. The selected samples were further classified as marginal (<1 ha), small (1-2 ha) and medium (>2 ha) category farmers on the basis of their land holdings. The results of the study revealed the average family size of 7 members per household of which joint family system (57.22 %) dominated the study area, literacy rate 82 per cent, sex ratio of 831, average land holding of 1.10 ha and average livestock population of 5 ACU per household. Survey further revealed that around 18 per cent of the household’s, income being derived from CPRs based activities and lower caste households were found highly dependent on CPRs (26.87 % of total income). The Ginni coefficient of income from CPR’s in case of upper caste was 0.51 and in case of lower caste it was 0.44. On an average the employment generated through CPR based activities were found 253 man days with an opportunity cost of ₹ 63250 annually. The dependency of households for animal grazing showed that CPRs supported 113 animal units grazing per households, which confirm heavy dependence of tribal people on these resources. Factors like social participation, family size, livestock population significantly and positively affected the dependence on CPR’s whereas, caste, education and non-farm income affected negatively. Devta committee leads in the benefit sharing and management of CPR’s (11 per cent involvement of locals) followed by Gram Panchayat (5.67 %) and Mahila Mandals (5.33 %). The main factors responsible for the degradation of CPRs were the construction of hydroelectric projects followed by excessive lopping of trees for fodder and firewood collection, population pressure, overgrazing, forest fire etc. So, to improve the conditions of CPRs in the study area community-based collective management system in which government and beneficiaries come together for the benefit sharing and sustainable management of resources should be strengthened.ThesisItem Open Access EVALUATION AND BENEFIT SHARING OF JOINT FOREST MANAGEMENT IN HIMACHAL PRADESH(2016) GULERIA, CHANDRESH; VAIDYA, MANOJ KUMARABSTRACT The present study entitled “Evaluation and Benefit Sharing of Joint Forest Management in Himachal Pradesh” was conducted in the total 18 JFMCs of 6 forest development agencies (FDAs) of the state, using random sampling technique to select the sample. A sample of 206 respondents was selected from the 18 selected JFMCs. The results revealed that average family size at overall level comprises of 6.45 persons and the sex ratio was 946 females per thousand males in the study area. The overall literacy rate was found to be 85.64 per cent while literacy index was only 2.18. The size of land holding per family head varied from 0.331 ha in Dehra FDA to 1.655 ha for Kullu FDA whereas, average holding on overall basis was found to be 0.761 ha. The cropping intensity was worked out to be 169.68 per cent at overall level and was found highest in Palampur division (193.64 %). The share of income derived from forests in total income was only 4.25 % in the study area. The level of inequality in total income among the sample households at an overall level was 0.31 and varied from 0.22 in Una division to 0.43 in Sundernagar. As on 1st February, 2016 there are 1562 registered JFMCs in Himachal Pradesh which are involved in execution of National Afforestation Programme out of which only 963 were active. There has been an increase in the total number of the FDAs from 11 to 36 from 2007 to 2011, however, the funds outlay to the FDAs decreased significantly from 644.11 lakhs in 2007-08 for 11 FDAs to 62.59 lakhs in 2014-15 for 36 FDAs. In the selected FDAs, the total number of JFMCs were 172 out of which only 80 were found to be active. The number of executive committee members varied from minimum of 8 in Thore and Dhamasan JFMCs to a maximum of 28 in Badoo Kandi JFMC. Among 18 JFMCs, 7 failed to fulfill the condition of minimum 33 per cent female members in the executive committee in the study area. The expenditure of 41.95 lakh rupees has been made in the selected JFMCs during 2005-06 to 2015-16 and maximum expenditure of 12.47 lakh rupees was incurred in the JFMCs of Dehra FDA. It was also found that the funding to the JFMCs were meagre and also not provided regularly. Among all FDAs except the Dehra and Paonta Sahib shows the decline in the expenditure and employment growth rate over the years. The employment of 23463 mandays has been generated in the selected JFMCs during 2005-06 to 2015-16. Maximum employment of 5249 mandays was generated in Dehra FDA. Since the inception of JFMCs 336 ha area was covered under new plantation, 69 check dam/ retaining walls, 26 water harvesting structures, 10 vermicomposting pits, 3 nurseries and 21 path construction, tialas, kuhls road repair work etc. was done in the area. During the past 29 years, the forest cover in the state has registered an increase of 2115 sq. km to 14997 sq. km during 1987 to 2015. The results of the people participation at various stages of JFM programme reveals that at an overall level the participation index in the planning stage, implementation stage and maintenance stage was found to be 60.29, 51.32 and 61.53 per cent. There is almost equal participation of the households of general caste and the other caste and the APL as well as BPL at an overall level. The study also concluded that the annual income from community forest is higher for small and marginal, and poor households than that of rich households. Lack of involvement of local institutions in micro plan, lack of budgetary support to micro plan, lack of incentives to the village leadership, operational clash between agriculture & JFM activities, failure to address the social factors, and delay in payments were observed to be the main constraints in the effective implementation of JFM programme in the study area.ThesisItem Open Access STRUCTURE, CONDUCT AND PERFORMANCE OF IMPORTANT TIMBER MARKETS OF NORTHERN INDIA(2012) SHARMA, SUBHASH; NEGI, Y.S.ABSTRACT Present study analyzed the “Structure, Conduct and Performance of Important Timber Markets of Northern India” by taking a representative sample of 254 tree growers, pre–harvest contractors, commission agents and wholesalers/sawmillers. Representative markets of Saharanpur, Yamuna Nagar, Amritsar, Hoshiarpur, Baddi and Mantaruwala were purposively selected for the present study. Results of the study revealed that for majority of the tree growers the income from farm forestry was prominent; with its share in the total household income ranging from 15.18 per cent in Amritsar area to 24.70 per cent in Hoshiarpur area. Majority of the respondents were in the business of tree growing for reasons of long term financial security. Important tree species planted on the farms were shisham, kikar, mango, eucalyptus and poplar. Eucalyptus and poplar were the most prominent tree species as far as relative allocation of land to growing of different tree species is concerned. Timber marketing in the region was found to be lacking in quality and timely market information, as also in enforcing grade specifications and quality control. Only Saharanpur and HPSFC’s depots were regulated markets. The functioning of other markets was regulated by local marketing organizations like Poplar Safeda Arhatiya Sangathan in Yamuna Nagar and Lakkar Mandi Samities in Amritsar and Hoshiarpur. Yamuna Nagar market is a big market which handles about 250 thousand quintals of timber daily of which bulk is that of poplar and eucalyptus. The timber markets in the study areas are working under imperfectly competitive market situations tilted more towards oligopolistic nature of the market. Contractors, commission agents and HP State Forest Corporation are three marketing intermediaries with whom producers deal directly. Channel involving producer -- contractor -- wholesaler/sawmiller -- consumer is the most important channel through which bulk of the timber is transacted. However, in case of poplar and eucalyptus the channel: producer – contractor -- commission agent -- consumer was found to be more prominent. Shisham is the main species of which an estimated average quantity of 245 quintals per tree grower is transacted in different markets. Shisham was followed by mango with average transaction ranging from 120 quintals in Saharanpur market to 245 quintals in Hoshiarpur market. Producer’s share for poplar ranged from 73.20 per cent in Hoshiarpur market to 77.50 per cent of consumers’ price in Amritsar market. Similarly, in case of eucalyptus the producer’s share ranged between 66 per cent in Yamuna Nagar market to about 80 per cent of the consumer’s price in Amritsar market. Contractor’s margins in Yamuna Nagar were estimated to be about 13 per cent of consumer’s price for poplar and 20 per cent of consumer’s price for eucalyptus. In other markets these were in the range of 4 to 8 per cent in case of poplar and 3 to 5.9 per cent of consumer’s price in case of eucalyptus. HPFSC’s costs forms about 22 per cent of the consumer’s price while wholesaler/sawmiller’s margin were in the range of 11 to 16.6 per cent of the consumer’s price. A high degree of market integration was there in the selected markets for different timber species. Production area wise response regarding various problems related to market intelligence reveal that tree growers and pre–harvest contractors of Yamuna Nagar and Saharanpur were relatively at a disadvantage as compared to their counterparts in other selected timber producing areas. Difficulty in getting harvesting permit, late information, small size of auction platform and high transportation charges were other important problems faced by the tree growers. Lack of market infrastructural facilities is the major and the common problem faced by the commission agents and wholesalers/sawmillers in all the study markets, followed by problems of unregulated vehicles and the lack of accommodation for the tree growers in the markets. The results of the study suggest the need to assure tree growers of the remunerative returns, if not by support prices then may be by further promoting wood-based industries and improving the industrial infrastructure for these industries. Establishment of such industries in the vicinity of producing areas will send a right message to the tree growers with regard to sustainability of the demand for their product. Also, there is a need to ensure proper conduct of timber market which is the responsibility of the concerned public agencies. Forest corporations or tree growers’ cooperatives need to be promoted and the same should show their presence to increase competition in the market to improve the efficiency of the timber markets.ThesisItem Open Access COMMON PROPERTY RESOURCES AND RURAL LIVELIHOOD SECURITY: A STUDY OF COMMON PASTURELANDS IN HILLS OF NEPAL(2013) REGMI, SUDERSHAN PRASAD; SHARMA, RAVINDERABSTRACT The study analyzed the linkages of common property resources (pastureland) with the rural livelihood security of people in Rasuwa district of Nepal. A stratified multistage random sampling design was used to select a sample of 180 respondents from three different climatic zones, viz., temperate (2000-3000 masl), sub-alpine (3000- 4000 masl) and alpine (4000-5000 masl). The selected samples were further classified as users’ and non-users’ depending upon their dependence on common pastureland. The result of the study revealed that 63.33 per cent of sampled respondents were users and 83.33 per cent were exclusively dependent on agricultural farming. The pasture to herder ratio was found higher in the temperate zone and lower in sub-alpine and alpine zone indicating that as the altitude increased the number of herder also increased. A maximum likelihood estimates using Tobit model was used to determine collective effort for the pastureland management. It was revealed that area of common pastureland, Gini ratio and income from livestock were positively and significantly whereas, membership to local organization and quadratic form of Gini ratio were negatively and significantly affected the management of the common pastureland. The Tobit analysis revealed that probability in the collective effort of an average illiterate farmer having Gini ratio of 0.40 and non-member to local organization with landholding of 0.30 ha has probability of 0.261; which further decreased to 0.197 with increased landholding (0.60 ha). Further increase in educational level from illiterate to primary lowered in probability to 0.158. The condition of pastureland in physical term and availability of forage were high in alpine zone than the other regions and overall condition was found to be fair to good; with highly weed infestation and unwanted shrubs (56.12 %). The major determinants of the good pastureland condition found using Tobit analysis; were land holding, land to man ratio, family size, household work force, forage availability index and the status of respondent being user of the pastureland. The findings explicitly indicated that livestock income contributed 51.89 per cent to user household income whereas remittance as off-farm income constituted 59.92 per cent of the non-users’ household income. It was found that food availability based on their own production level of wheat, rice and maize) was deficit in all categories of respondent and climatic zones. Whereas, when potato crop was considered as stable food, then the food available become sufficient. The analyze of the major determinants for willingness to pay for betterment of pastureland condition inferred that were cost of stay, management level, and livestock units were found positively and significantly, and family size and value of resource use negatively and significantly affecting the willingness to pay of with cost of stay being most important (<0.01) factor for both users and non-users of the pastureland. It was further investigated that probability of extent for willingness to pay (WTP) for average respondent in the study area increased with increased in cost of stay, livestock income and family size. The expected amount of WTP for average respondent in overall situation varied from NRs. 304.53 to 680.00 ha1yr1, whereas, in case of nonuser it varied from NRs. 216.58 to 362.62 ha1yr1. In case of users it increased from NRs.2163.29 to 2666505.45 ha1yr1 implying thereby that users were highly motivated to pay more than the non-users in the study area. It was revealed that respondents were willing to pay higher price for the higher quality of pastureland improvement. The findings of the present study strongly recommend that there should be a separate pastureland policy to bring several activities related to the pastureland management so that livelihood of the users may be strengthening in future