Baglung Rice Planting Affected by Insufficient Rainfall

Baglung. Rice planting in Baglung has been affected by insufficient rainfall even by mid-Asar. While 60 percent of planting was completed by this time last year, only 38 percent has been planted this year by mid-Asar.

Although planting has taken place in some areas of western Baglung, most of the fields around the district headquarters are still dry. According to Kumar Pun Magar, chief of the District Agriculture Knowledge Center, more than half of the area should have been planted by this time, but due to insufficient rainfall, rice has only been planted in 38 percent of the area.