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Agroforestry is the unique way of farming practice of agriculture and forestry in the same plot of land, Chepang are backward ethnic of Bagmati Province engaged in farm-based agroforestry system and generate production from its practice realized helpful during a crisis. A Novel Coronavirus called COVID-19 devastated sphere and keeps the human lockdown. The farmer faces trouble unexpected long day lockdown. This study is anticipated to analyze the impact of COVID-19 within Chepang in Nepal; as well as a proposed model for the agroforestry caused through COVID. Purposive sampling, with some 100 HHs (Raksirang Rural Municipality, Makwanpur district) data collected in the lockdown period. Chepang experienced many calamities, and COVID-19 was the unique way to fight, farm production was more consume instead of a sale. Continue lockdown engaged in agroforestry farming, lack of wage opportunity, partial functioning of the market, no sale of farm products are the common trends. Food aid support by Rural Municipality played a role helped some 30 HHs poor families. A long-term food security self-sustainability strategy suggested; continue lockdown may crisis, if farm products not sold and wage stopped. A model proposed considering COVID with pointing three major actors (Farmers, Local government and Development agencies) could play a vital role in the future for sustainable development, among the model conditional wage scheme could relieve farmers in the future sustainability.