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By Our Correspondent

Tamghas (Gulmi), Aug. 4: Farmers here have been forced to plant paddy as if it were millet, after not receiving sufficient even at the end of July.

Farmers of Ishma Rural Municipality-2, Chaldi Phant of Gulmi have been compelled to plant rice like millet due to lack of rainfall this year.

Normally, paddy is planted in mud after receiving sufficient rain. However, due to lack of rain even by mid-Shrawan, there is no reserve water in the fields which affected plantation.

Farmer Jang Bahadur Khatri of Ishma Rural Municipality-2 said that due to lack of rain, he was forced to plant rice like millet in of Chaldi Phant. 

Another farmer, Prakash Thapa, complained that millet was planted as if it were planted after the rice seedlings started drying up. Jamuna Khatri, Nara Bahadur Thapa and others from the same place have planted rice in a dry place. There is a field of about 60 people in that place with an area of more than 500 ropanis.

Another farmer, Prakash Thapa, complained that the paddy saplings were planted in the same way as millet sapling after the paddy sapling started to dry out.

Farmers Jamuna Khatri, Nara Bahadur Thapa and others from the same place have planted rice in the dry land. 

In the Chaldi Phant, 60 people have a farm with an area of more than 500 ropanis.

After the saplings started drying in the seed bed, farmers including Shyamlal Shrestha, Tika Reshmi, Purna Prasad Shrestha, Rajan Kunwar, Yadav Pandey, Bhaviswar Khatri, Laxmi Thapa and others have planted rice by lifting water from the river with the use of motors.

The water of the Chaldi River, which is about five metres below the field, flows near the field. However, due to the lack of canal management, the farmers here have been planting relying on sky water.

According to Agricultural Knowledge Centre, Gulmi, paddy plantation has been completed in 88 per cent of paddy fields in the district as of Sunday (August 3).

Although some problems have arisen due to insufficient water in places, including Chaldi Phant, it has been easy for plantation in other places due to the availability of irrigation facilities.

Published Date: August 4, 2025