摘要：Healthy soil is the basis of high quality food
production. Increased awareness toward safe and
healthy environment further aggravated the significance
of soil quality evaluation and adoption of rational
management practices. Evaluation of soil quality is
crucial but expensive task for organic growers and
smallholder agriculture. Participatory approach in soil
quality assessment, thus, can serve the purpose of soil
quality assurance for quality production. Physical,
chemical and biological soil quality parameters are
identified through participatory discussion and they are
integrated in a way familiar to farmers. Farmers
evaluate their farm soils based on their existing
knowledge, agro-ecological condition and farming
system of the area. This approach bridges farmers’ ideas
with scientific facts with minimum financial investment.
Initiatives have already been taken in this line, however,
strengthening and institutionalization of the process is
needed to replicate this practical technique. Preliminary
work in Baccheuli, Chitwan, Nepal indicated the
approach as practical, easy, cost effective and
convincing to farmers. Moreover, this enhanced
confidence to farmers of their soil quality and supported
for further strengthening of organic and smallholder
agriculture in Nepa
