Share Currently, the cultivation of some kinds of fruits like sweet oranges (junar) is being done along commercial lines, hence the juice market can be explored internationally. Unfortunately, due to the lack of processing facilities, most of the sweet oranges and oranges produced locally are going to waste. THE KATHMANDU POST Nepal should allow FDI in agriculture Thu, 28 January 2021 Nepal is now immersed in a new debate about whether she should allow foreign direct investment (FDI) in agriculture. The country’s farm sector faces chronic under-investment, under-production and a severe lag in mechanisation and modernisation. For these reasons, Nepal must welcome all forms of investment in agriculture to lift it from the present state of subsistence farming and small-holding production practices. Nepal has been practising subsistence agriculture for centuries primarily due to land fragmentation, and this condition persists even till date.