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A record production of 5. 2 million mt

Paddy production up by 22 percent

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A record production of 5. 2 million mt
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January 10:  Production of summer crops in Nepal has considerably improved this year despite the situation that plenty of cultivable land in Nepal remains barren in recent years.

 The production of paddy, maize and other crops has increased this year compared to past years, as per the preliminary statistics published by the Ministry of Agriculture Development (MoAD).

According to MoAD, production of paddy this year has broken all the past records.

According to the Agriculture Statistics Section, paddy production this year has reached 5.23 million metric tons increasing by 21. 66 percent compared to last year. Last year, a total of 4.29 million metric tons of paddy was produced in the country. The increase this year is by 9 hundred and 31 thousand metric tons compared to last year.  

This has been record production of paddy in the history of country.  Although there has been improvement in production of cereals, situation is such that there is an outflow of billions of rupees annually for import of food grains. As per the statistics of the Trade and Export Promotion Centre, rice amounting to Rs 10 billion has been imported in the past four months.

 

According to MoAD spokesperson Yogendra Karki, the ministry has made a preliminary projection of production of 10.4 million tons of the main food crops in until April this year. As per the Ministry statistics, Nepal needs 9.6 million tons of food grains including rice, maize, wheat and millet.

The import and export of food grains for Nepal is considered obvious as the country is the member of the World Trade Organization and has adopted the free-market economy. “However, it is a serious issue that the Nepal is importing foods grains amounting to billions of rupees despite an enormous potential of agriculture in the country,” says Karki.

Sources say usually the import of fine and fragrant rice have been increasing every year due to the rising living standards of Nepalis contributed by impact of remittances and increasing capacity of  people to earn money.  The Ministry claims that Nepal can be self-reliant on food grains very soon if the food habit of the Nepalis improves.

This year, the production of maize has also increased and reached 2.25 million metric tons against 2.23 million metric tons last year.          

The main reasons for rise in production this year are adequate rainfall, timely transplantation, smooth supply of chemical fertilizers and hybrid seeds and improvement in agro technology, the ministry says.

 

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