93 percent paddy plantation in Bagmati Province

Kathmandu: Bagmati Province has recorded around 93 percent of monsoon paddy transplantation so far this year.

'About 93 percent of paddy transplantation has been completed,' said Anup Adhikari, the information officer for the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development, Bagmati provincial government.

In Nepal, in general, the best time for paddy plantation is considered early June to mid-July. In the Kathmandu Valley (Kathmandu, Lalitpur, and Bhaktapur districts), a cent percent paddy plantation took place, he said.

Meanwhile, the Ministry said a team would be deployed with the assistance of local levels of all 13 districts of the province to test the acidity of the soil of arable land in the districts.

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