Farmers Await Unfulfilled Relief After Hailstorm Destroys Wheat Crops

Surkhet. Nirak Budha, a resident of Gwalipinna, Thatikandha Rural Municipality-1, whose 7-member family used to have enough wheat produced from their land to eat until the month of Kartik. He had sown 12-15 pathi of wheat. With a production of 7-8 sacks of wheat, it was enough to eat until the maize crop season.

In the hills, winter crops are usually consumed until the harvest of summer crops is brought in, and food grains produced from summer crops are consumed until the winter crops are produced. In the second week of Chaitra 2082, just as the wheat crop was to be brought in, a sudden hailstorm completely destroyed Nirak Budha's wheat crop.