How Koshi farmers turn sand dunes green

Around 3,100 bighas were covered with sand from the 2008 Koshi flood making them unfit for cultivation of traditional crops such as paddy, wheat and maize.

Surya Narayan Mahato of Shripur in Koshi rural municipality was involved in subsistence farming before the Koshi flood swept away hundreds of homes, destroying land and livelihoods in 2008.