{"id":434546,"date":"2026-08-23T13:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T07:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=434546"},"modified":"2026-08-23T13:27:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T07:42:51","slug":"energy-minister-shrestha-stresses-irrigation-to-boost-agricultural-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/08\/23\/434546.html","title":{"rendered":"Energy Minister Shrestha stresses irrigation to boost agricultural production"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kathmandu:<\/strong> Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation Biraj Bhakta Shrestha has stressed the need to expand irrigation facilities to boost agricultural production and retain young people in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During an inspection of the Sunsari-Morang Irrigation Project, Energy Minister Shrestha said irrigation should not be limited to canal construction, but should also include programmes to empower farmers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the ministry was studying ways to integrate irrigation and agricultural programmes. According to him, the Sunsari-Morang Irrigation Project contributes to more than 14 billion rupees in annual agricultural production. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Energy Minister Shrestha also stressed making irrigation systems more user-friendly and prioritising nature-based solutions while developing irrigation infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During an inspection of the Sunsari-Morang Irrigation Project, Energy Minister Shrestha said irrigation should not be limited to canal construction, but should also include programmes to empower farmers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":434549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,4,76,5],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-434546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en-cover","category-english","category-en-news","category-society","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434548,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434546\/revisions\/434548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434546"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=434546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}