Midday in May, Tantalapur is scorched by the sun. The heat inside the cornfield is the same. However, he does not care about any of these things. He is wearing a blue shirt and blue pants. Freshly plucked corn from the plant inside the head. He only has a knife to crack corn. He is Teknarayan Tamang of Jhapa Rural Municipality-7.

Not only Tamang . Most of the locals of Jhapa Rural Municipality are currently busy harvesting maize. We planted corn in one and a half acres. It has grown well, this is the source of our income,'' said Tamang, who was found while breaking corn, "After spending 46,000 on planting corn, the income has reached more than one lakh." Where it is difficult to see a field that has not been planted with corn and a family that has not cultivated corn. Now there is a corn storage platform here. Some are drying corn, some are releasing corn from the machine, some are busy breaking .

Dhanpati Sangraula of Jhapa Rural Municipality-3 was found while drying corn on the road. He has planted corn on about 15 acres of land . Now they are planning to leave the corn and dry it and sell it . The main crop here is corn. Paddy is only planted to keep the field barren, because we need to eat rice,' he said, ``maize earns good income.'' It is also sold from home.'

According to him, maize is now being sold for three thousand rupees per quintal. Traders come to the house to get the dried and prepared corn . They weigh and take away. Since the soil of Jhapa rural municipality and Kankai municipality is fertile for maize cultivation, the government has also implemented the maize zone program here since 2076.

at the beginning of Jhapa rural municipality ward no. 6 and Kankai Municipality Ward No. The maize zone program was implemented as a trial in 9 . Later the program was expanded . All seven wards of Jhapa rural municipality and neighboring Kankai municipality ward no. Maize zone program was implemented on 5 and 6 . As a result, more than 90 percent of farmers here are attracted to commercial corn farming.

Sangraula, a farmer, said that he has grown up to 104 quintals of corn on 26 katta land. In other words, he claims to have grown up to 10 maunds of corn in one piece of land. Corn grows twice as much as rice. However, there is a lack of chemical fertilizers to be applied to corn. We cannot buy it, nor does the government give it,' he said, 'if there is no shortage of chemical fertilizers and if they are available at an affordable price on time, the production would increase.'

Bir Bahadur Karki, another farmer of Jhapa Rural Municipality-3, complains that the maize grows very well, but even if it is broken, left, dried, and made suitable for grinding in mills, it does not get a fair price. "Until a while ago, the price of maize, which was up to 3700 per quintal, decreased to around 3000 after the farmers' corn came out. Who is in control of this market?,' he says, who has planted corn on more than one square meter of land, 'diseases, insects, drug treatment, chemical fertilizers have prepared corn. Reduces the price . Farmers are forced to sell as much as they want.

In the municipality where maize zone is implemented, the municipality will also set the support price and the farmers will benefit, he says, "The municipality has set the support price". The price would have been the same . Farmers used to get a fair price. Similarly, due to the lack of places to dry corn, farmers are forced to dry corn on the streets. The Hulaki highway connecting east-west through the southern part is more like a corn drying tunnel . Other internal roads same .

Dharamalal Hemaram of Jhapa Rural Municipality-2 says that if corn drying tunnels or any other option are given to the farmers in the municipality where the maize zone is implemented, the compulsion to dry them on the road will be removed. The entire municipality is busy with corn cultivation. Farmers are also happy to see that the corn they have planted has grown . However, the pest infestation, drug treatment, lack of chemical fertilizers, traders' arbitrary prices are also very distressed.

How many farmers are engaged in commercial corn cultivation throughout the municipality? The municipality does not have data. How many hectares of corn are cultivated in the entire municipality with the agricultural branch of the municipality? We also understand that . However, the municipality has not kept the data. "The service facilities in Jhapa rural municipality are better than in other municipalities," said Samishka Upreti, head of the agriculture branch.

According to Krishi Gyan Kendra Jhapa, corn is cultivated in an area of ​​44 thousand 350 hectares in Jhapa. More corn is cultivated in the southern region than the northern region of the East-West Highway. The information officer of Gyan Kendra, Chetanath Bhandari, says that maize cultivation is flourishing in the entire municipality of the district. Farmers are especially attracted towards hybrid varieties of maize, he said.