Vidyayanand Rai, a farmer of Gaushala municipality-12, has planted paddy of Katarni and Hardinath varieties in 2 bighas. After irrigating with motors from wells and boardings, plowing 1,000, planting 1,000, fertilizer 500, irrigation 500 per paddy, the planted paddy has started to dry up.
There is electricity in the farm to irrigate by driving a motor . But due to lack of voltage, the motor has stopped pulling the water . If there is no rain and there is no voltage of electricity to irrigate, will the planted rice grow? The problem of rice drying in the field has become a common problem of the farmers here. Farmers are struggling to save the irrigated paddy planted by boarding from drying up. To irrigate the planted paddy, the motor and pumpset have to be run day and night . Farmers are worried after the field that was watered at night starts drying up the next day.
Bardibas-Jaleshwar road section from Aurhi to Jaleshwar, leaving the settlement area, the paddy cultivation area is empty this year . The fields are dry . Even though the heat is reduced and cool due to normal rains, the pain of the farmers is increasing day by day due to lack of rain in the fields . Due to lack of sufficient rain, the rice seeds have started to dry .
Rai said, 'The fields that were planted in June and looked green in the past years are now dry . Due to lack of sufficient rainfall and lack of planting, the fields prepared by digging and plowing are in a state of disrepair. The fields visible from the road are ready to be planted with paddy . In the gap of two bighas, only the paddy beds are green and the fields look dry.'
In Mahottari, paddy is cultivated on 40,000 hectares. Devananda Rai Yadav, head of Krishi Gyan Kendra Mahottari, said that in about 20 percent of the areas where rice is cultivated, farmers have irrigated and planted paddy with pump sets.
'Since there is no rain, the paddy planting beds have started drying up, farmers have started planting paddy in rivers with boarding, wells and water using fire engines and motors,' Yadav, the head of Krishi Gyan Kendra, said, 'There is no canal in Mahottari. Farmers were waiting to plant rice in the rain. After no rain, paddy planting has been started little by little by irrigating from boardings, wells and rivers with water. Ekdara, Pipra, Manrasiswa, Jaleshwar, Ramgopalpur, Gaushala, Sonma, Samsi and other municipalities have not been able to plant rice like last year.
