Nepal faces a double whammy—dry spell in Tarai, floods in mountains and hills

The country is reeling from an extreme climate crisis, as hundreds of farmers in the Tarai are unable to plant paddy.

Seven out of the eight deep borings installed for irrigation in ward 4 of Bara’s Pheta Rural Municipality have dried up due to a prolonged dry spell during the mid-monsoon. The transformer of one of the borewells, which was functioning, was stolen.