Banke. The cultivable land of the National Animal Breeding Office in Khajura Rural Municipality-2 Gaughat has been eroding Mankhola. Dr. Khimananda Khanal, Chief Senior Animal Development Officer of the National Animal Breeding Office Gaughat, said that Mankhola has eroded about two bighas of cultivable land due to the failure to build an embankment.
‘Mankhola had been eroding land for many years. It has started to erode rapidly in the last two years,’ he said. ‘In the last year alone, Mankhola has eroded and washed away about one and a half bighas of cultivable land.’
Khanal informed that if the embankment is not built this year, another two bighas of land are at risk of erosion. He said that if the embankment is not built even for two years, the danger of Mankhola entering Guranspur settlement along with the Animal Breeding Office is increasing.
He complains that despite repeated initiatives to the Minister, Secretary, Director General and concerned bodies to prevent erosion, the problem is increasing due to the lack of necessary budget. According to him, the barley grass and grass trees that are grown here are often cut down and carried away by the floods during the rainy season.
If there is no embankment to stop erosion, the Mankhola will enter the cultivable land and cause huge loss of life and property, said Dev Narayan Jaishi, an animal service technician at the office. According to him, the office is located in Khajura-2 Gaughat, 15 kilometers west of the district headquarters Nepalgunj, on an area of about 34.4 hectares. He informed that two hectares are forest, two hectares are office structures and 25 hectares are used for grass cultivation.
Through this office, the operation of artificial insemination services has been facilitated in a total of twenty-four districts, including nine each in Sudurpaschim and Karnali provinces and six in Lumbini province.
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