Farmers have started planting rice as irrigation facilities have been installed and rain has gradually started falling.
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Paddy sowing has begun in rural areas of Lamjung. Farmers have started sowing paddy in Tamrkhet of Khwalasothar Rural Municipality-4, Ghimchephant, Ward No. 5 of Bhujung, and Ghermuphant of Marsyangdi Rural Municipality-5.
Farmers have started sowing paddy as soon as irrigation facilities have been provided and it has started raining. Yama Bahadur Gurung of Bhujung said that paddy sowing has started in Ghimchephant since Saturday. According to him, villagers have started sowing Tamre (Takmare) variety of paddy. The villagers claim that the local variety Takmere paddy is cultivated only in Bhujung. According to local Tul Bahadur Gurung, since there is irrigation system in Ghimche field, more than half of the field can be sown by the end of Jestha.
Ward Chairman of Kholasothar Rural Municipality-5, Geet Bahadur Gurung, said that sowing has started in Singdi since Sunday. Planting has been going on in full swing since Monday. Local Vartamaya Gurung said that sowing has started in the village and paddy has been planted collectively.
According to Dhankumari Gurung of Ghermuphant, paddy sowing has started in Ghermuphant since Monday. She said that all the farmers in the village have come together to plant paddy. Local Birkh Gurung said that there is an irrigation system for Ghermuphant and there is no shortage of water as it has started raining in the last few days. 
According to him, Marsi and some hybrid paddy have been planted in Ghermuphant. Local varieties of paddy including barley and gori are also being cultivated here. In recent years, the planting of hybrid rice has increased, said Ward Chairman of Marsyangdi Rural Municipality-5, Ghanshyam Ghale.
There are no settlements in this area above Bhujung in Lamjung. Local farmers say that although there are villages and fields above Ghermu, there is no rice crop. After the planting of rice in Ghermuphant, rice planting also begins in places such as Bahundanda and Bhulbhule in the lower region. After the planting of rice in Bhujung in the northwest and Ghermu in the northern region, the planting activity increases in the lower regions of Lamjung.
According to Ward Chairman of Kholasothar Rural Municipality-4, Bhujung, Narayan Gurung, after planting rice in Ghimchephant, rice is planted in places such as Talhyu, Ramche, Kaundi, Kizgun. He said that it is customary to plant rice in Ghimchephant, where corn is not cultivated, initially. In other fields here, corn is harvested in Asar and paddy is sown.
‘The paddy planted in Bhujung’s Ghimche is brought in in Asoj.’ Then, cowsheds are brought to that place and kept there,’ said Ward Chairman Gurung. ‘After the sheds are gradually moved to other fields and fields, crops including wheat and barley are planted.’
According to Madan Regmi, an agricultural expert at the Agricultural Development Office, Lamjung, paddy planting has already begun in the Lekali area of Lamjung, where there is sufficient moisture. He said that planting has begun in areas where moisture and irrigation have been provided and will gradually be planted in the lower areas as well. 
According to the Agricultural Development Office, there is a total of 61,819 hectares of cultivable land in Lamjung. Of this, 45,050 hectares are cultivated. In the last fiscal year, 35,336 metric tons of rice were produced when rice was sown on 9,299 hectares. Regmi said that Chaite rice has been sown on 82 hectares this year and data on its production is yet to come.
In Lamjung, large fields such as Rainastar, Dhamilikuwa, Bhalakharka, Chakratirtha, Ramchokbensi, Bhorletar, Duipiple, Sotipasal, Parewadanda, Sundarbazar, Satrasaya and others are used for more rice cultivation.
Although local varieties of rice are being planted in rural areas, advanced varieties of rice including Ramdhan, Sunaulo Sugandha, Sukkha-2, Savitri, Jethobudho, Ekle, and Loktharkan are being planted in the fields in the lower areas. Similarly, hybrid varieties of rice such as Loknath, Gorakhnath, US-312, Makwanpur, Sheri-3004, and Mansuli are also cultivated. In areas with low water availability, farmers grow dry-1, dry-2, and dry-3 varieties of rice.
