Lack of irrigation facilities hit farmers in Ramechhap

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DURAGAON (Ramechhap): Local people have started planting millet as the irrigation canal constructed four years ago at a cost of l5 million rupees has gone unrepaired this year also.
Although 56,908 hectares of land in Ramechhap district are brought under agriculture, irrigation is available only for 6,830 hectares, it is stated.

Although the biggest budget project in irrigation undertaken by His Majesty's Government is situated in Duragaon, shoddy work has meant that local people have not been able to cultivate paddy properly even for one year.

Farmers who invested in the improvement of their land once the government built irrigation works are now facing the prospect of not recovering their investment. The government provides annual grants for running 36 small irrigation projects, none of the canals flows with water more than once , it is stated.

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