Serzhongs crisis
Situated at the foot of the hills that rise up to Zhemgang dzongkhag, Serzhong village is a fertile stretch of flat land perfectly suited for paddy cultivation. But only seven of the 63 households in this village, eight kilometres from Gelephu town, cultivate paddy. This is because monsoon torrents keep washing away irrigation channels and deposit sand and gravel into the fields making cultivation impossible. And so about 100 acres of paddy land in the village have become fallow land filled with shrubs.