Floods damage arable land in Pyuthan every monsoon
kathmandupost.com · Fri Jul 23 01:15:00 GMT 2021
Farmers in Pyuthan Municipality are seeking government help to protect their fields that the Jhimruk river has been turning into dry desolate land.
The Jhimruk stream in Pyuthan destroyed around 246 hectares of cultivable land in 2016. Since then the stream has been continuously breaching its banks and destroying huge swathes of paddy fields and threatening settlements at Bagdula, Punyakhola, Bijuwar, Jurmi and Kwadi, among others.
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