Farmers high and dry as local units fail to help

Local governments only care about construction of roads and bridges, neglecting agriculture, voters say.

Praseni, a village in Ward 4 of Gadhawa Rural Municipality, Dang, lacks irrigation. Farmers from the village depend largely on rains for farming. There are some deep borewells, but farmers like Labaru Chaudhari don’t have one. If Chaudhari needs to irrigate his field during the dry season, he has to fork out for water as he must pay the borewell owners.