Dailekh:A hailstorm is reported to have caused extensive damage various fruits, vegetables and seedlings of grains at the agriculture research centre, Dailekh last Saturday.

According    to   chief   of    the   centre    Dil   Bahadur   Gurung, two varieties of fruits, eight of vegetables and nine of wheat which are grown experimentally at the centre were affected 30 to 100 per cent.

Orange and tangerine on cross-breeding, radish, onion, cauliflower, swiss vegetable seedlings and Annapurna-1 and Annapurna-2 varieties of wheat were also damaged. The centre works as technology development centre for various hill districts of mid-western and far western development regions.