Late-started sowing in Mahottari reaches 70%

लगानी न्यूज

२९ श्रावण २०८२, बिहीबार १३:१०August 14, 2025

Mahottari. Although paddy sowing started late in Mahottari this year, paddy sowing has been completed in 70 percent of the district’s land after the farmers planted it.

According TAG_OPEN_div_30 to Devananda Raya, chief of Agriculture Knowledge Centre, Mahottari, 70 per cent of the sowing has been completed in the district after 3÷4 days of continuous rain.

Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli had visited Matihani municipality of the district on July 12 to inaugurate a bridge and a maternity home when the farmers who could not sow paddy due to lack of rain for a long time in the district were worried. TAG_OPEN_div_28 ।

Prime Minister Oli also inspected the drought situation in Madhes province by helicopter and after a week, the rain started in the district and after that the farmers here started planting even if it was late. TAG_OPEN_div_26

Mahottari TAG_OPEN_div_24, which has 10 municipalities and five rural municipalities, has a total of 71,570 hectares of cultivable land, of which 64,977 hectares is under cultivation, out of which 40,000 hectares is expected to be cultivated this year.

According to Rai, the farmers of the north-western region of the district had planted very little in the past with the help of motor, diesel pump, rivers, wells, wells and shallow tubewells. TAG_OPEN_div_22

Office Chief Rai said that the rain for 3÷4 days in the district had proved to be a boon for the farmers and the farmers have planted paddy crops in 70 percent of the land after planting it. TAG_OPEN_div_20

TAG_OPEN_div_18 He said that the percentage would increase further as paddy transplantation is still going on in different villages of different municipalities of the district.

He said TAG_OPEN_div_16 that the farmers here have planted paddy of Bhadaiya, Hardinath, Muslim, Katarni and Basmati varieties. Last year, paddy was cultivated on a total of 42,500 hectares of land in the district, out of which 150,800 metric tonnes of paddy was produced. According to the Agriculture Knowledge Centre, Mahottari, rice production will decline this year due to lack of timely rainfall.