Due to the drought, due to low water levels in the rivers, farmers have not been able to plant crops even though they have plowed their fields and made them better.
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Last year, 80 percent of the fields were sown by the second week of Asad, but this year only about 45 percent of the fields have been sown in Salyan. Due to the long-term drought, the water level in the rivers has decreased, so this year only about 45 percent of the fields have been sown in the district by the second week of Asad.
Due to the lack of timely rains and the decrease in water level in the rivers, only the fields around the Sharda River in the district, Darma, Triveni, Chhatreshwari, and Siddhakumakh rural municipalities have been sown by the second week of Asad. In many places in the district, farmers have not been able to sow even though they have plowed and prepared the fields for sowing.
Mahesh Acharya, head of the Agricultural Development Office, Salyan, said that out of the 6,059 hectares of fields, about 2,700 hectares have been sown by Sunday. He said that even though the Agricultural Development Office has been building canals for irrigation every year, farmers have not been able to sow rice due to lack of rainfall on time.
According to him, sowing has been completed in the fields along the Sharda River in Bagchaur, Sharda Municipality, Siddhakumakh, Chhatreshwari, Triveni and Kalimati Rural Municipality of the district, and in the fields near the source of Darma, Kumakh and Chhatreshwari Rural Municipality. Sowing has not been possible in the fields along the Bangad Khola in Bangad Kupinde Municipality, the fields around Marmakhola in Ragechaur of Kumakh Rural Municipality and other fields along the Khahare Khola. He said that despite the lack of rainfall, farmers have plowed and prepared the fields.
Last year, in the second half of Asad, sowing was completed in 787 hectares of fields across the municipality, but this time only half of that has been done, said Susan Gautam, head of the agriculture branch of Tribeni Rural Municipality. She informed that farmers have been taking turns sowing since the water in the Sharda and Luham rivers is very low.
Narayan Belbase, head of the agriculture branch of Bangad Kupinde Municipality, said that out of 655 hectares of cultivable land in Bangad, sowing has been completed only in a few fields near Dhorpipal, which is between Wards 6 and 11, while all the others are still under cultivation.
Ramhari Gaire, head of the agriculture branch of Darma Rural Municipality, said that 94 percent of the 347 hectares of fields across the municipality have been planted. He informed that despite the lack of water in the local river, farmers have worked together to irrigate and sow. Meanwhile, Saroj Kunwar, head of the agriculture branch of Kumakh Rural Municipality, said that farmers have completed planting only in areas with springs and have cleared the land elsewhere by plowing and placing beds.
