A hail that battered 11 Village Development Committees (VDCs) of Khotang on October 23 destroyed paddy worth over Rs 110 million, the District Agriculture Development Office (DADO) said.

This statistics was presented by the DADO on Friday. Senior Agriculture Development Officer Shyam Prasad Ghimire said the recent hailstones destroyed ready-to-harvest paddy in at least 11 VDCs, including Dorpachuridanda, Nerpa, Patheka, Kharmi, Diktel, Ratancha and Nirmalidanda areas. “Around 90 percent paddy plantation was destroyed in the affected area,” Ghimire said.

DADO informed that this was a preliminary data and it might slightly change once all the information is collected from the district. District Disaster Management Committee has demanded relief from the Ministry of Agricultural Development for the hailstone victims.