Bajhang folk face huge food crunch
Residents of Dhamena VDC in Bajhang district are reeling under food shortage. With the local canal that had been providing irrigation facility to the farmers obstructed for the past one year, crop production has dwindled.
As a result, many are forced to work as daily wage labourers while others are venturing to India in search of jobs.
The 950 meter-long canal which had been irrigating over 700 hectares of land, was damaged while the Chainpur-Saipal road stretch was being constructed.
Farmer Bir Bahadur Kunwar said that wheat yield dropped last year due to lack of irrigation, adding that this year too, the crop is drying up. Vegetable production also has been affected. Many residents of the VDC have left off vegetable farming due to lack of irrigation facility.
Another farmer Parbati Dhamena said she doesn’t know how to sustain her family. She said that the harvest
from her land used to sustain them for almost six months.
“But over these some years, it is hardly two months,” she said.
Posted on: 2011-04-19 09:01
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