According to the data TAG_OPEN_div_38, only 72,520 hectares of land has been planted so far. This is 23.94 percent of the total potential area. A total of 302,939 hectares of land is under paddy cultivation in Lumbini Province.
The total paddy cultivable land in TAG_OPEN_div_36 the province is 680,015 hectares. Ram Prasad Pandey, director general of the Directorate of Agriculture Development under the Ministry of Agriculture of Lumbini Province government, said paddy production has been increasing in the province in recent years.
{{TAG_OPEN_div_34} The planting situation is different in the districts of the province. Among the districts of the province, pyuthan has the highest planting of 82 percent, while Gulmi has the lowest planting of only 5 percent.
Kapilvastu and Rupandehi are the major rice producing districts in the TAG_OPEN_div_32. In these districts, 21.82 per cent paddy in Kapilvastu and 21.06 per cent in Rupandehi occupied the area. Rukum East district has the lowest area under paddy cultivation. The district accounts for 1.46 per cent.
A total of 65,871 hectare TAG_OPEN_div_30 s of land has been planted in Kapilvastu so far this year, but so far 4,611 hectares have been sown. Paddy has been sown in 6,328 hectares out of 37,225 hectares in Dang. Paddy has been sown in 13,714 hectares out of 50,150 hectares in Bardiya.
Similarly, paddy TAG_OPEN_div_28 has been sown in only 3,818 hectares out of 34,711 hectares in Banke. Hilly districts like Palpa, Arghakhanchi, Gulmi and Rolpa have also witnessed low sowing. Last year, paddy was planted on 301,809 hectares of land in Lumbini Province.
Director General ram Prasad Pandey said TAG_OPEN_div_26 that the state government has been carrying out various programmes including seed production, technology demonstration, irrigation, increasing concentration, chaite paddy promotion and conservation of indigenous varieties to increase paddy production.
At present, there are variet TAG_OPEN_div_24 ies of Savitri, Sama Mansuli, Hardinath 6, Radha 4, Dry Paddy 1 and 2, Gangasagar 1 and 2, Khumal Basmati etc. In addition, the use of traditional varieties of paddy such as Tilki, Simtharo, Kalanamak, Hansraj, Jinuwa, Mansara is also increasing.
Similarly TAG_OPEN_div_22, paddy cultivation in the state contributes 56.15 per cent to the total food production and 43.87 per cent to the total consumable food. On the occasion of the National Paddy Day, State Agriculture Minister Dinesh Panthi said the government has launched a special campaign to make Lumbini province an ‘organic’ province. He said that the campaign was started from Rukum East of the state.
Agriculture Secretary Yam Narayan Devkota said TAG_OPEN_div_20 the government was committed to the promotion of paddy as it is not only a major food crop but also associated with culture and tradition.
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