Food scarcity in remote areas of Myagdi: Report

February 22, 2006
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More than half a dozen Village Development Committees (VDCs) south of district headquarter Beni Bazaar of Myagdi district have been facing serious food crunch for some time.

According to Nepal Samacharpatra daily, various VDCs of the district including Rum, Baranja and Okharbot have witnessed food scarcity due to drought during monsoon, repeated disruption of transportation to and form the district headquarters and various other obstacles.

The people in these areas only produce food grains enough for five months and they are dependent on imported food grains for the remaining months, the report said.

The paper quoted Man Prashad Buda of Rum-5 as saying, “Me along with my 15-20 friends move from one village to another to find work and we send back rice to our homes from the money that we earn. For the last three months, the villages have been facing food scarcity. We have not been able to send rice from here.”

For years now, the villages of Myagdi district have been abandoned by its youths. Locals say that they are finding it difficult to cultivate their land as only women, children and elderly people are there in the villages.

Gajman Gharti of Okhartar VDC says, “There is no one to help us out. Even to get things from the market, we do not find people, so old people like us or children have to go to the market.”