Inadequate rain, fertiliser shortage hit paddy plantation

Farmers are now busy planting paddy across the country despite facing a shortage of chemical fertilisers and rainfall. Paddy plantation has been completed in more than a half of the total paddy cultivation area – 54.13 per cent – by July 12. Plantation was delayed in some areas for a lack of fertiliser and poor monsoon rains. According to the Department of Agriculture, under the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development, paddy plantation has been completed in around 814,350 hectares of paddy field. Farmers in Nepal grow paddy in 1.504 million hectares of land.

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No chemical fertiliser shortage this paddy season, agriculture ministry says

This fiscal year, the ministry requested funds in mid-February to import fertiliser for paddy transplantation.

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Fertiliser supply improves

Lack of fertiliser during the paddy plantation season has been a recurrent problem in Nepal. Every year, the farmers face ordeals of fertiliser shortage. However, this year, the authorities have claimed that there would be no shortage of chemical fertiliser at least during the plantation season. They said they would manage to cater at least half of the demand to each farmer. “We will provide fertiliser to the farmers. They will not face dearth of fertiliser this year like in the past years as the government has made arrangement for it,” said Dr. Yogendra Kumar Karki, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development secretary.

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