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Nepal shifting rains and changing crops

2013-10-16 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

SciDevNet: With weather becoming more erratic every year as a result of climate change, Nepali farmers are progressively shifting their approach, turning vast areas of rice paddies into small-scale vegetable farming. Vegetables are more resilient as they can be hand watered in case of drought. Farmers say that with rains that used to come in April now shifting as late as mid-June, vegetables that can be sown at the time the rains finally fall are now a better investment. But large parts of their fields now...

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