62-year-old Hira Devi of Mahottari Alipatti started preparing to plant paddy with her son and daughter-in-law on Monday, after two days of rain, but there was not enough water to plant paddy in the field. As she did not have money to run the pump set, she agreed with the neighbor to buy diesel and started irrigating the fields without rain.

When it rained after a long time, Hira prepared to plant paddy in the field through loans, but she said that there was a problem because the seeds had rotted due to drought.

Mother Hira said that after managing the money to plow the fields with pumpsets, diesel and tractors, it was easy for her son Dipachan Mandal to plant paddy by applying water to the fields taken on lease in Bataiya . "We were worried about what to eat when there was no rain," Mandal said. Since the rain has soaked the soil well, I have to irrigate water from the side of the nearby road to irrigate it.'' The group believes that after the recent rains, after planting Genten paddy in the field, it will yield abundantly.

Farmers of Mahottari are getting ready to plant paddy in the fields like Mandal who is collecting water from the side of Janakpur-Jaleshwar road section and planting paddy. Devanand Rai Yadav, head of Krishi Gyan Kendra Mahottari, said that although there is no water in the fields, paddy planting has increased in recent days with the water collected from the river, pumpset and nearby. He said that the rains of the last two days have brought relief to the farmers of Mahottari who have been suffering from drought for a long time.

Yadav, head of Krishi Gyan Kendra Mahottari, said that after the rains intensified the planting, 50 percent of the rice has been planted in the district. After the rains, the farmers are seen busy in the fields from morning till evening. According to Krishi Gyan Kendra Mahottari, if the rain continues for a few more days, the possibility of planting in the remaining fields has also increased.