Heavy Rainfall in Kailali Damages Harvested Paddy Crop

Dhangadhi. Heavy rainfall in Kailali on Monday night damaged paddy crops that had been harvested and left in the fields. According to the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, heavy rain occurred in Kailali as well as Bardiya due to the influence of a western weather system. The rain soaked the harvested paddy left in the fields and damaged the straw.

Farmers in the western Terai region are currently busy harvesting paddy. Ghanashyam Chaudhary, chief of the Agriculture Knowledge Center in Kailali, stated that damage occurs when farmers harvest their paddy without paying attention to weather conditions.

According to him, although the Knowledge Center had been warning farmers about potential rainfall, there is a trend of ignoring these alerts and harvesting the crop anyway. He added that the damage occurs because the harvested paddy is not kept in a safe place. The Knowledge Center estimates that around 15 percent of the paddy in the district had been harvested by Monday.