Due to insufficient rainfall, only 50 percent of the planting has been completed in Bardiya by the third week of Ashar this year.
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Manakala Tharu of Madhuban Municipality-3 Dhanaura has started uprooting the rice to be planted in the first week of Asad. She has to plant the rice quickly because she fears that the rice will spoil even though the field is dry. After the lack of rain, she has managed to prepare the field for planting by arranging boring.
Ramshankar Tharu of Dhanaura is sitting looking at the sky as there is not enough rain for planting. He is also worried that the rice that is ready for planting will spoil if there is not enough rain.
Bardiya had 5 hours of continuous rain on Asad 15. Since then, Basu Chaudhary, a farmer from Badaiyatal Rural Municipality-8, said that although there has been a little rain in some parts of the country since then, it is not enough for planting. Due to the lack of sufficient rain, only about 50 percent of the rice has been planted in Bardiya till Asad 22.
The Integrated Agriculture and Livestock Development Office, Bardiya, has stated that the highest planting has been done in Rajapur Municipality and Geruwa Rural Municipality, which are considered to be irrigated areas by the Karnali River. About 75 percent has been done in this area.
Kamala Adhikari, head of the Integrated Agriculture and Livestock Development Office, Bardiya, said that about 35 percent planting has been done in Madhuban, Thakurbaba, Barbardiya, Basgadhi, Gulariya Municipality and Badhaiyatalma Rural Municipality. She said that planting has been affected in fields that rely on rainwater. She said that if it still rains for one or two days, 100 percent planting will be done by Ashar. Paddy is cultivated on 50,100 hectares in Bardiya.
Planting has been affected due to low water in the main canal of the Babai Irrigation Project. Since Babai is a murky river, the water level fluctuates depending on the rainfall. Project Chief Gopal Sharma said that irrigation facilities will not be provided for 12 months until the Bheri-Babai diversion work is completed. The target is to complete the Bheri-Babai diversion within the next two years.
