Who moved my rice?

Rice keeps the country together. Let’s come together to help farmers grow more rice.

The paddy planting season is back again, and it is the most important season of the year for a reason. With a paddy acreage of 1.5 million hectares, resulting in a harvest of over 5 million tonnes of rice, and per capita consumption of about 120 kilos of milled rice per year, Nepalis have for the longest time maintained rice as their principal good grain. Rice contributes around 20 percent of the agricultural gross domestic product, over 50 percent of the total cereal food production, and almost a third of the total calorie intake for Nepalis. The gastronomical significance rice holds for Nepalis cannot be exaggerated . Rice keeps the country together, so to speak.