Paddy fields have dried up right ahead of the harvesting season in Eastern, Northern and Southern part of the district, according to officials at the Agriculture Service Centre, Chandranagar.[break]
“Paddy plants have withered and the fields have been left dry in different areas of the districts such as Haripurwa, Basantpur, Suknaha, Jigdawa, Nokailawa, Chandranagar and Fardawa,” said Siya Saran Raya, chief of the Agriculture Service Centre of Chandranagar.
According to Raya, irrigation facility is available only in the western part of the district. “Most of the farmers in this district rely on rainfall for farming,” added Raya. He said some of the farmers are using pumping sets for irrigating their fields. Farmers are worried about the prospect of paddy harvest as paddy plants have withered just before the harvest time.
“Some of the farmers have already started to feed the dry paddy plants to cattle,” said Gagan Dev Raya, a farmer from Malangwa.
According to Ram Prakash Mahato, chief of the Agriculture Development Office at Sarlahi, farmers planted paddy in only 85 percent of total 39 hectares of arable land in the district.
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