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<span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The plantation areas are vulnerable to blaze. This is the story about the cardamom estate of Siddhadanda at Phungling Municipality in Taplegung. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Another farmer Bir Bahadur Phembule from the same locality shared a similar story. He expressed sadness over the imminent loss of income with drying cardamom. </span><br />
<span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">In the previous years, there used to be rainfall in early January while the Himalayan region witnessed snowfall during that time. But this year, there was no snowfall. It resulted in diminished sources of water, according to Principal Raju Hellok at Parbati Basic School from Phaktanglung Rural Municipality-5. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Moreover, Ran Bahadur Baboko, a farmer from Mangmakhe of Sirijungha Rural Municipality-6, said they will most certainly bear huge loss in cardamom plantation this time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The plantation areas are vulnerable to blaze. This is the story about the cardamom estate of Siddhadanda at Phungling Municipality in Taplegung. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Another farmer Bir Bahadur Phembule from the same locality shared a similar story. He expressed sadness over the imminent loss of income with drying cardamom. </span><br />
<span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">In the previous years, there used to be rainfall in early January while the Himalayan region witnessed snowfall during that time. But this year, there was no snowfall. It resulted in diminished sources of water, according to Principal Raju Hellok at Parbati Basic School from Phaktanglung Rural Municipality-5. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Moreover, Ran Bahadur Baboko, a farmer from Mangmakhe of Sirijungha Rural Municipality-6, said they will most certainly bear huge loss in cardamom plantation this time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The plantation areas are vulnerable to blaze. This is the story about the cardamom estate of Siddhadanda at Phungling Municipality in Taplegung. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Another farmer Bir Bahadur Phembule from the same locality shared a similar story. He expressed sadness over the imminent loss of income with drying cardamom. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The plantation areas are vulnerable to blaze. This is the story about the cardamom estate of Siddhadanda at Phungling Municipality in Taplegung. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Another farmer Bir Bahadur Phembule from the same locality shared a similar story. He expressed sadness over the imminent loss of income with drying cardamom. </span><br />
<span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">In the previous years, there used to be rainfall in early January while the Himalayan region witnessed snowfall during that time. But this year, there was no snowfall. It resulted in diminished sources of water, according to Principal Raju Hellok at Parbati Basic School from Phaktanglung Rural Municipality-5. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The plantation areas are vulnerable to blaze. This is the story about the cardamom estate of Siddhadanda at Phungling Municipality in Taplegung. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Another farmer Bir Bahadur Phembule from the same locality shared a similar story. He expressed sadness over the imminent loss of income with drying cardamom. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The plantation areas are vulnerable to blaze. This is the story about the cardamom estate of Siddhadanda at Phungling Municipality in Taplegung. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Another farmer Bir Bahadur Phembule from the same locality shared a similar story. He expressed sadness over the imminent loss of income with drying cardamom. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The plantation areas are vulnerable to blaze. This is the story about the cardamom estate of Siddhadanda at Phungling Municipality in Taplegung. </span><br />
<span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">With the parched cash crop, farmers here are worried much about the income. There is neither rainfall nor irrigation facility to water the dried crop. It is not possible to fetch water and irrigate the estate. </span><br />
<span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">"I've been planting cardamom for 40 years. I harvested as much as 1600 kgs of cardamom, but for some years, the harvest has been dented much with disease and drought. Now, the absence of rain this year has hit hard the cultivation," farmer Krishna Gurung shared the plight. "What is left to grow as the plant is dried before flowering,” he expressed his grief. </span><br />
<span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Another farmer Bir Bahadur Phembule from the same locality shared a similar story. He expressed sadness over the imminent loss of income with drying cardamom. </span><br />
<span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">In the previous years, there used to be rainfall in early January while the Himalayan region witnessed snowfall during that time. But this year, there was no snowfall. It resulted in diminished sources of water, according to Principal Raju Hellok at Parbati Basic School from Phaktanglung Rural Municipality-5. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Moreover, Ran Bahadur Baboko, a farmer from Mangmakhe of Sirijungha Rural Municipality-6, said they will most certainly bear huge loss in cardamom plantation this time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">The plantation areas are vulnerable to blaze. This is the story about the cardamom estate of Siddhadanda at Phungling Municipality in Taplegung. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Another farmer Bir Bahadur Phembule from the same locality shared a similar story. He expressed sadness over the imminent loss of income with drying cardamom. </span><br />
<span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">In the previous years, there used to be rainfall in early January while the Himalayan region witnessed snowfall during that time. But this year, there was no snowfall. It resulted in diminished sources of water, according to Principal Raju Hellok at Parbati Basic School from Phaktanglung Rural Municipality-5. </span><br />
<span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">"Farmers are cheerless this time as the cash crop has dried for lack of rainfall," he added. </span><br />
<span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Moreover, Ran Bahadur Baboko, a farmer from Mangmakhe of Sirijungha Rural Municipality-6, said they will most certainly bear huge loss in cardamom plantation this time. </span><br />
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