{"id":51791,"date":"2026-07-24T13:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T07:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=51791"},"modified":"2026-07-24T13:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T07:42:09","slug":"paddy-plantation-in-madhes-nearing-completion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/paddy-plantation-in-madhes-nearing-completion\/","title":{"rendered":"Paddy plantation in Madhes nearing completion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Janakapurdham, July 24: As of July 23, Madhes province has achieved an impressive 78.59 percent of its paddy planting goals, covering over three lakh hectares.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Madhes Province Agricultural Development Directorate, by July 23, paddy had been planted across 3 lakh 580 hectares. Siraha district leads the way with a remarkable 94 percent of plantation, while Mahottari lags behind at 55 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to ample rainfall this year, farmers are diving into planting with great enthusiasm. Kiran Bishwakarma, the Horticulture Development Officer at the Directorate, shared with RSS that farmers are not only opting for advanced paddy seed varieties but are also focusing on the effective use of both chemical and organic fertilizers.<\/p>\n<p>However, some farmers have raised concerns about the lack of irrigation infrastructure and fertilizer availability in certain areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Janakapurdham, July 24: As of July 23, Madhes province has achieved an impressive 78.59 percent of its paddy planting goals, covering over three lakh hectares. According to the Madhes Province Agricultural Development Directorate, by July 23, paddy had been planted across 3 lakh 580 hectares. Siraha district leads the way with a remarkable 94 percent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-main-news","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51791"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51793,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51791\/revisions\/51793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}