Rupandehi farmers forced to use groundwater for rice plantation in lack of sufficient rains

बाँकेमा रोपाइँ गर्न आकाशे पानीकोभर

बाँके। बाँकेमा पर्याप्त वर्षा नहुँदा यस वर्ष धान रोपाइँमा ढिलाइ भएको छ। बाँके जिल्लाको केही भू–भागमा सिक्टा सिँचाइ र भूमिगत पानीको प्रयोग गरी रोपाइँ गरिए पनि अधिकांश किसानले रोपाइँ गर्न सकेका छैनन्। आकाशेपानी परेपछि दुईदिनयता करिब १० प्रतिशत रोपाइँ भएको कृषि ज्ञान केन्द्र बाँकेकी सूचना अधिकारी वरिष्ठ कृषि प्रसार अधिकृत सुजिता शर्माले बताइन्। मसिनो र []

Pre-monsoon floods wipe out Boro rice harvests in Bangladesh’s haor wetlands

On a raised rural road cutting through Bangladesh’s haor wetlands, 70-year-old farmer Firoz Khandaker sat surrounded by his family, spreading out freshly harvested but water-soaked rice to dry in the sun. Around him, water stretched endlessly across submerged fields, an image that captured the scale of this year’s agricultural disaster in the country’s north-eastern floodplain. (image) Would you like us to summarize articles for you? ARTICLE SUMMARY Pre-monsoon flash floods have devastated Bangladesh’s haor wetlands, destroying thousands of hectares of boro rice just as farmers were preparing to harvest their most important annual crop. Triggered by intense rainfall and upstream water flows, the floods have wiped out livelihoods, deepened food insecurity, and threatened national ...

Drought worries Soru farmers as paddy planting is delayed

By Our Correspondent, Mugu, July 11: A prolonged dry spell in Soru Rural Municipality in western Mugu has left farmers w...