Crop-cutting method used to estimate amount of paddy production

28 Oct, Chitwan : A ‘crop-cutting method’ has been applied to estimate the amount of paddy production.

Chief of the Agricultural Development Office in the district, Jhalak Nath Kandel, informed that the crop-cutting was completed in the eastern belt of Chitwan. It will be over in two days in Bharatpur and Madi of western Chitwan.

The crop-cutting will be done in every 10 square metres area of paddy and the production will be estimated accordingly. Kandel said, “This year, we have estimated that the entire district will produce more rice than the last year as the weather was favorable during plantation.”

However, there will be a slight decrease to the expected amount of production. It will not be a big loss either.

“On average, the production can be estimated at about four metric tons per hectare. We will know about the production after crop cutting in all places and acquiring statistics accordingly,” Kandel shared.