Biratnagar. In late Ashoj and early Kartik of 2078 BS, unseasonal rainfall across Nepal, including Jhapa, caused massive damage to ripening paddy crops. According to the then Agriculture Knowledge Center in Jhapa, the unseasonal rain destroyed 50 percent of the paddy crop, resulting in losses worth billions.The Agriculture Knowledge Center collected damage reports in coordination with local levels and forwarded them to the provincial and central governments. The federal government even passed the 'Criteria for Providing Relief to Farmers for Paddy Crop Damage Due to Unseasonal Rain-2078' to compensate for the losses.Accordingly, the Environment and Disaster Management Branch of the...