Bajura, March 15: Hailstones coupled with heavy rains have damaged wheat crop, vegetables and fruit farms here in the district Saturday (March 14). Budhiganga in the Badimalika municipality along with other local level units in the lower part of the district saw such natural phenomenon for more than an hour, thus significantly wrecking the crops, said the Agriculture Knowledge Centre, Bajura.
The near-harvest wheat, barley and vegetables were damaged. The extent of the damage is yet to be calculated, said information office of the Centre Min Prasad Jaisi. The farmers have suffered a great loss as a result of the hailstorm, Triveni ward no. 3 chairman Min Bhandari confirmed.
Meanwhile, the centre has urged the concerned authority to provide relief support to the farmers who have suffered as a result of Saturday hailstorm, according to Acting Chief Govinda Sijapati. The Budhiganga municipality is sending technical teams to every ward to assess the damage.RSS
