On both sides of the road, and in some places right in the middle, corn kernels and husks have been dried to such an extent that only a hand's worth of space remains for vehicles to drive.
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With the heat of summer, the rural areas of Rautahat are in a hurry to bring in corn. As farmers rush to bring in their annual crops, the main and inner roads here are now decorated in a unique way.
Vehicles are supposed to drive on the roads, but when you reach the villages, you feel like these paved roads are 'corn drying fields'. Due to the corn scattered all over the road, blocking the road, rural travel in the district has become extremely risky.
Corn is being dried on the inner roads of Chandrapur, Gujra, Gadhimai, Vrindavan, and Katahariya municipalities. On both sides of the road, and in some places in the middle, the corn grains and husks have been dried in such a way that only a hand's worth of space is left for vehicles to drive.
‘It was difficult to tell whether it was a road or a farmer’s yard,’ says local Rupendra Patel, ‘The bike tire slipped on the corn kernels and almost fell.’
Rautahat District Traffic Chief Rajendra Thapa Magar said that he has been requesting people to remove corn from the road whenever he sees it being dried.’
In some places, farmers have placed large stones, wood or bamboo mats in the middle of the road to prevent the corn from drying.’
Dilip Bachhar, a farmer from Balachanpur, says, ‘The house has a small yard, so much corn cannot fit in there.’ The corn must be dry to be picked from the field and taken directly to the market. The road surface is hot. If the government had made a common place for us to dry corn, why would we come to the road?’
He says that he is forced to use street heat in a hurry because the corn dries slowly and the traders do not pay a fair price.
