. In the current fiscal year 2083\u00f784, more than 96 percent paddy plantation has been completed across the country so far. According to the data of the Department of Agriculture, paddy plantation has been completed in 1,316,039 hectares of land across the country till August 5, which is 96.06 per cent of the total target. <\/p>\n
In the same period last year, only 91.<\/p>\n
31 per cent paddy was planted. At that time, paddy plantation was completed in around 1257,000 hectares out of 13,78,967 hectares of cultivable area. <\/p>\n
Province-wise, paddy plantation has been completed in the far-western state. Paddy plantation has been completed in 154,950 hectares of land in the province. Lumbini Province has 97.37 percent, Karnali Province 96.82 percent, Bagmati Province 97.82 percent, Gandaki Province 95.57 percent, Madhesh Province 94.65 percent and Koshi Province 93.69 percent. <\/p>\n
According to officials at the Ministry of Agriculture, the progress of paddy plantation this year is encouraging due to timely activation of monsoon, adequate rainfall and favourable environment for farmers for planting.<\/p>\n
Rice is one of the major food crops of Nepal. The progress of planting is seen as an important indicator of the agriculture sector as it is directly related to the total agricultural production and food security. This year, the pace of plantation has improved significantly compared to last year. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
. In the current fiscal year 2083\u00f784, more than 96 percent paddy plantation has been completed across the country so far. According to the data of the Department of Agriculture, paddy plantation has been completed in 1,316,039 hectares of land across the country till August 5, which is 96.06 per cent of the total target.Continue reading “96 per cent paddy plantation complete, 100 per cent completed in Far-West”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":85642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-samachar-en"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_9762bd9d.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85665,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85664\/revisions\/85665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/media\/85642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}