In lack of rain, only 50 per cent of paddy plantation has been completed by the end of July in Sarlahi district. According to the Malangawa-based Sarlahi district’s Agriculture Kno
KATHMANDU, July 15: A total of 53 percent of the paddy transplantation has been done so far in the country.
Paddy seedlings plantation got delayed in the country due to scanty rain in the country in this monsoon, the Ministry of Health and Livestock said. The paddy plantat
Bishnu Paudel, a resident of Deupur, Lamahi Municipality-6, in Dang district, had to bear a loss in paddy crops last year. Due to the rain, there is a problem of decaying of paddy that had been cut and dried in the field.
Satellite radar image showing position of the heaviest rainfall on Thursday morning. The System is now moving north, and will bring more rain to the central Himalaya. nseasonal late monsoon rains across Nepal are causing floods, early snowfall in the Himalaya, stranding trekkers and damaging paddy fields ready for harvest. Relentless rain battered Kathmandu and […]
Satellite radar image showing position of the heaviest rainfall on Thursday morning. The system is now moving north, and will bring more rain to the central Himalaya. nseasonal late monsoon rains across Nepal are causing floods, damaging paddy fields ready for harvest, and early snowfall in the Himalaya has stranded trekkers and festival travellers. Relentless […]
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.
KATHMANDU: The government has said that the paddy crops worth Rs 7.22 billion have been ruined by the unseasonal rains that occurred across the country earlier this week.
Unveiling a report on Friday, the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development shared that the three-day [Sunday-Tuesday] torrential rain inflicted the loss of ready-to-harvest paddy crops in 198,521 hectares of land.
According to the ministry, three provinces --- Lumbini, Sudur Paschim and Province 1--- were hit hard by the unseasonal rains triggered by cyclonic conditions in the Bay of Bengal and the westerly wind.
Of the three provinces, Lumbini reported the heaviest loss. Paddy crops planted in 93,676 hectares of land were ruined. The loss has amounted to Rs 4.51 billion.
Of the 55,000 hectares of land impacted by this year’s unexpected rains, the paddy crops planted in 18,000 hectares were completely damaged in Sudur Paschim Province, reveals the report released by the ministry. The loss equals to Rs 1.91 billion.
Similarly, Province 1 reported the loss of paddy crops worth Rs 800 million. The rains impacted the ready-to-harvest crops in an area of 49,945 hectares of land.
Districts in the south-western part of the country including Bardiya, Kapilvastu, Banke, Rupandehi, Kailali and Kanchanpur and those lying in the eastern terai --- Jhapa, Morang and Sunsari--- have reported the heavy loss of paddy crops.
With over a week of dry spell, paddy plantation has started becoming affected in several parts of Sarlahi. Cracks have developed in the paddy fields as they are drying up owing to a lack of irrigation facilities and rain.
