The farmer says, ”The paddy was planted after draining most of the water, but due to lack of irrigation facilities and sufficient rainfall, the paddy fields are broken.”
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Farmers of Marchawar of Ruppandehi, who planted paddy after draining as much water as possible, are now forced to spend their days seeing the paddy field torn. Barren land is not found in Marchwar area where there is a lot of paddy planting in the district. However, in the planted fields, the paddies are broken and the rice has turned yellow.
Even though we have been waiting for the monsoon since the first week of May, the rains have not yet started. Sporadic rain does not wet the ground. The wells constructed for irrigation are dry.
Most of them planted by extracting underground water through boring. Some planted paddy using pumpsets from nearby water sources. Some have brought water from far away through pipes. Farmers say that due to lack of irrigation, the cost of paddy cultivation has increased. Marchwari-6 Prahlad Chaudhary of Piparhawa has cultivated paddy in 20 fields this year. There is no source of water for irrigation around his farm. Tried to bury the boring to solve the problem. "However, even after burying a 5-foot pipe, water did not come out," he said.
Every year, Akash has been doing farming with rain water. He said that when there was no other option, he ran a pump set in the Danda River, one kilometer away, and brought water from the pipe. "As much as rice is planted," he said, "it needs water to grow, but now the fields are dry and broken." I am worried that the seeds will turn yellow and dry.' Since the pipe bought by one farmer does not reach, many people are connecting the pipe and bringing water to the farm. "If it wasn't for this Danda river, we would have died of drought," said Awadhesh Kurmi of Marchwari-6, "We have drawn this water to 2/3 km." According to him, the problem of inadequate irrigation is repeated every year. Due to the lack of water, some have grown trees. Kurmi said that he only planted because he was worried that he would starve throughout the year if he did not cultivate.
Shri Krishna Chaudhary, President of Shri Mahalakshmi Agricultural Cooperative Society, said that the production cost has increased due to lack of irrigation. "There is no profit except stress from farming," he said, "Expenses are being added to expenses." Pumpsets should be run to draw water from the canals. Running the pumpset consumes one and a half liters of diesel in an hour.
According to him, it takes at least three hours to irrigate a kattha with water drawn like this. "When irrigating one paddy field, four and a half liters of diesel is spent," he said, "Farmers who cultivate a lot of land have to take loans to run pumpsets." "There is no chance of rain yet," he said.
Narayan Kafle, head of the Project Implementation Unit Office under the Prime Minister's Agriculture Modernization Project, said on Tuesday that the wheat zone is an area. Rice and wheat seeds are being produced from here. According to him, there is an irrigation problem in 10,000 hectares on Tuesday. Here it is expensive to draw water through shallow tube wells. A culvert has to be constructed in the command area of Tuesday Lift Irrigation. He said that now the project has built 350 meters of canal to bring water to the fields.
'Irrigation has become indispensable even for sustainably running the seed production program,' he said, 'Marchwar farmers are lacking water.' He said that the project is constructing small drains in wheat and paddy pocket areas by spending 50 lakhs under the construction of community infrastructure.
