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Bhadrapur, 23 Nov :

Jhapa district, which enjoys the virtue of being the most rice producing district in the country, has witnessed an increment of 15 per cent in paddy production this season as compared to the last year, according to the District Agricultural Development Office (DADO), Jhapa.

The paddy productivity in the district, which stood at 4.31 metric tonnes per hectare, has risen to 4.69, according to DADO Jhapa's Agricultural Technician Shalikram Bhattarai.

Agricultural Technician Bhattarai shared that the paddy was planted across 87,500 hectare area in the district this year, yielding 410,375 metric tonnes of rice.

Last year, rice was grown across 83,000 hectare area, said Bhattarai, attributing the increment in the crop production to the usage of improved rice seeds and decrease in pests' attacks.

The paddy plantation areas in the district are shrinking due to growing activities of haphazard land plotting, informed Bhattarai.

The government has recently implemented Super Zone programme in various places in the east and south of the district as Baniyani, Kechana, Prithivinagar to promote paddy production.