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Kathmandu Tuesday July 24, 2001 Shrawan 09, 2058.
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Inadequate rainfall hits paddy
transplantation
Post Report
MORANG, July 23 - Farmers have not been able to
sow paddy on nearly 50 percent of the arable land in Morang district although the season
for paddy transplantation is fast approaching its end.
Last year, they had transplanted paddy on about
90,000 hectares of land, but this year, they have yet to transplant paddy on about 40
thousand hectares in the absence of rainfall.
Of the total 105,000 hectares of arable land in
the district, irrigation facility is available for 60,000 hectares while farmers have to
depend on rainfall for nearly 45,000 hectares of land.
Paddy is yet to be transplanted on 90 percent of
the land in Pokhariya, Majhare, Bhathigach, Dainiya, Nocha, Bisbani Badara, Sarovhag,
Budhnagar, Katahari, Rangeli, Jhurkiya, Govindpur, Sinjuwa, Sundarpur, Mrigouliya,
Harakpur, Bahuni and Rajghat VDCs.
According to District Agriculture Office, if
there is no rainfall even within a week all the remaining land will remain fallow this
year and production will decline by 50 percent as compared to that of last year.
Although 50 percent of the paddy field has been
cultivated, the paddy crop has been destroyed due to lack of irrigation facility and
absence of rainfall.
On the other hand, the paddy shoots are drying
up in the seedbed and farmers have started to graze their cattle on the paddy seedbed,
particularly in Pokhariya, Nocha, Majhare, Bhathigach, Sorabhag, Budhnagar, Katahari
Jhurkiya and Rajghat VDCs.
A farmer of Majhare VDC, Rajendra Prasad Mandal,
who had prepared the paddy seedbed to transplant paddy on 15 bighas of land has already
grazed his cattle on the paddy seedbed.
Like Mandal, many others have also started
grazing their cattle on the paddy seedbed.
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