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Despite forecasts of a below average monsoon, paddy transplantation has been progressing faster than expected but not as well as in 2013, the Ministry of Agricultural Development said.
According to the ministry, paddy has been transplanted on 42 percent of the country’s 1.52 million hectares of rice fields as of July 13. In the same period last year, the transplantation rate was recorded at 38 percent due to a late monsoon and untimely rainfall. However, this year’s transplantation rate is slightly below the previous year’s rate of 45 percent rate when the country received good rainfall ultimately leading to a bumper harvest.
Ministry officials said that paddy transplantation had progressed at a faster rate in the Far Western Region and helped pull up the national average. Plantation has been completed on over 85 percent of the fields there.
Weathermen have issued flood and landslide warnings in the Tarai districts, especially in the Far Western Region and parts of the Mid-Western Region, due to heavy rains.
Meanwhile, paddy transplantation has been moving slowly in the Eastern and Central regions. As of mid-July, paddy transplantation was recorded at 32.5 percent and 32.2 percent respectively in the Eastern and Central regions. In the same period last year, paddy transplantation was recorded at 45.6 percent and 28.6 percent respectively. There are 470,665 hectares of paddy fields in the Eastern Region and 410,342 hectares in the Central Region.
Similarly, paddy has been transplanted on 43.7 percent of the 312,740 hectares of rice fields in the Western Region. The figure was 35.8 percent last year. The Mid-Western Region recorded a transplantation rate of 41.7 percent against 38.7 percent last year. There are 172,112 hectares of rice fields in the region.
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