Residents of Marchawar, bordering Rupandehi, who have planted paddy after draining as much water as possible, are now forced to spend their days seeing the paddy fields 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 rice fields are broken and the rice has turned yellow . Although waiting for the monsoon since the first week of May, the rains have not yet started .

This time it has started raining but it has not rained. The ground does not get wet by the rain that falls. The wells constructed for irrigation are dry. Water does not seem to be enough in the water flowing village . Most of them planted underground water through boring. Some planted paddy using pump sets from nearby water sources.

Some have brought water from far away through pipes. Common people say that due to lack of irrigation, the cost of paddy cultivation has increased dramatically. Traditionally, political parties and people's representatives have won the election with the slogan of managing 'irrigation and fertiliser', but the local residents have not yet received the facilities .

March-6, Pralhad 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, water did not come out even after burying a 5-foot pipe," he said, "the water inside the ground has also run out."

He has been farming with sky water every year. 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 delivery pipe. "No matter how much rice is planted," he said, "water is needed to grow, but now the fields are dry and broken." We are no longer worried about the seeds drying up, nature has cheated us.' Since the pipe purchased by one farmer does not reach, many people are tying the pipe and bringing water to the farm . "If there was no Danda river here, we would have died of drought," said Awadhesh Kurmi of Marchwari-6, "We have drawn water like this to 2/3 km". The water drawn by the pumpset reaches the fields through pipes. According to him, irrigation is not only insufficient this year. Every year the problem is repeated. Due to the lack of water, some have grown trees on the land. Kurmi said that he only planted because he was worried that he would starve throughout the year if he did not cultivate.

Mr. Krishna Chaudhary, President of Mr. Mahalakshmi Agricultural Cooperative, said that the production cost of farmers has increased due to lack of irrigation. "There is no profit from farming except stress," he said, "Expenses are adding to expenses." Pumpsets should be run to draw water from the canals.

Running a pumpset consumes one and a half liters of diesel in an hour . According to him, it takes at least three hours to irrigate a dry land with water drawn like this. "When irrigating a piece of land, four and a half liters of diesel is spent," he said. "There is no chance of rain yet," he said.