Snowfall in Humla: Farmers elated

Rajan Rawat / Humla, Mar. 21: Farmers in Humla are elated for it has snowed after months as drought has dried crops.

The snowfall will also make it easy for sowing the Kattike crops.

What has fallen is not snow, it is like gold for the farmers, said Dala Bhandari, a local farmer who has planted 150 apple saplings on his apple orchard.

He said the snow accompanied with rain fall will now help the plants grow, which he said were getting dried due to a long drought spell.

He said snowfall has also rescued the Jethasi crop.

Another farmer, Takka Bahadur Shahi, shared that farmers were worried that they would be unable to sow Kattike crop as the drought had too hardened the field to plough and dig.

It has snowed this more thickly at Chhobakhor, Labli Danda, Ralingumba, Changla Himal, Namkha’s Limi, Hilsa, Naralekh, Yari, Chala and Nyalu lekh in addition to district headquarters of Simkot.