The government has committed to purchasing 500,000 quintals of paddy this year.
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KATHMANDU, Aug 11: These days farmers at Khokana, Lalitpur are busy plowing paddy fields.
As soon as the clouds provide shade from the scorching sun, farmers here hit the field.
Here are some pictures taken by Ratopati photojournalist Subhash Shrestha:
Kailari Rural Municipality has distributed wheat seeds to farmers of the municipality who had their paddy crops damaged due to the post-monsoon floods.
KATHMANDU: The government has decided to give up to 65 percent in subsidy to paddy farmers for the loss they incurred from the recent flooding.
A meeting of the Council of Ministers held on Thursday took a decision to dole out subsidy amounts to the farmers by classifying the farmers into small, medium and large groups based in the area of farming.
According to the government spokesperson and Minister for Communications and Information Technology Gyanendra Bahadur Karki, farmers would be given a subsidy upto 65 percent of the total loss for the paddy farming done in 10 katthas or an equal area of the land plot.
Likewise, farmers involved in paddy farming from 10 katthas to three bighas of land would be provided a maximum of 30 percent in subsidy while the farmers doing farming in more than three bighas of the plot would be given a maximum of 20 percent of the loss.
Minister Karki said that the government announcement on subsidy would be given by fixing the minimum support price of the paddy.
For this, a task force comprising secretaries at the Office of the Prime Minister would submit the required procedure within five days for approval.
NAWALPUR, June 1: Madhyabindu Municipality in Nawalpur district has provided quality paddy seeds
to farmers in 50 per cent subsidized rate.
The municipality distributed the paddy seeds in a subsidized rate after purchasing it through open bidding process.
Chief Administrative Officer of Municipality, Narayan Prasad Sapkota, said that farmers from all wards in the municipality have got the seeds.
Such an initiative was taken to facilitate the farmers to ensure their access to quality seeds and prevent them from being cheated, Sapkota argued.
“The municipality has provided quality seeds in grant as a relief to the farmers,” he said.
It is stated that the municipality bought paddy seeds at Rs 72 per kilogram through open tender and provided it to the farmers at the rate of Rs 36.
Sapkota shared that a total of 4,500 households were distributed as high as 51,300 kilograms of paddy seeds.
After receiving the quality paddy seeds in time at a subsidized rate, the farmers in the municipality have expressed their excitement.
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