A dry spell in mid-monsoon pushes hundreds in Banke to migrate to India

Last year, unseasonal and extreme precipitation damaged ready-to-harvest paddy, while this year, paddy saplings and other crops have dried up due to a dry spell.

Kalpana Sharma, a local from Narainapur Rural Municipality-4 of Banke district, has stopped hoping for rainfall. All the crops in her field have dried up. She has sold her goats, and one of her sons is in India looking for work as district authorities