Mountains. Painyu rural municipality in south Parbat is to provide relief to farmers affected by incessant rainfall in the course of bringing paddy, the main food crop of the farmers. The rural municipality has decided to provide relief to most of the farmers in view of the incessant rainfall since November 26 causing a huge loss to their ripe and dried paddy crops. The incessant rain has destroyed the paddy harvested by the farmers here on October 22 and 26.

Chief Administrative Officer of the rural municipality, Jeevan Gaire, said that the rural municipality has decided to proceed with the process to collect the exact details of the loss immediately after the rain stopped and to provide relief on the basis of assessment of the damage.  “The rural municipality has started the process in all wards to collect the exact details of the damage caused to the farmers’ crops due to the disaster,” he said. The aim of the municipality is that farmers can buy paddy or other grains again. ’

Rainfall has damaged paddy crops in all seven local levels of Parbat district, according to Agriculture Knowledge Centre. Sobita Subedi, information officer and crop protection officer at the Agriculture Knowledge Centre, said that some farmers have informed that the hybrid paddy has been harvested and soaked in the fields. According to Subedi, farmers have reported more damage to the local varieties of paddy than those that have been sliced and dried.

According to him, the rain has not affected the paddy which is standing in the field, but the fully ripe paddy may fall. Subedi said that the exact data has not been collected yet as the details of the damage are being collected. He said the Centre would take initiative to compensate the farmers.