BUTWAL: Floods have caused the loss worth millions of rupees in agriculture sector in different parts of Rupandehi district.

A flood has affected an ostrich farm, causing the loss of over 80 ostriches while it has also eroded the land plot as well, said CP Sharma, operator of the Ostrich Nepal Private Limited.

Similarly, floods inundated over 12,000 hectares of cultivated land in the district.

The District Agriculture Development Office's officiating chief Ashwini Sharma informed that the paddy planted on thousands of hectares of land were inundated and damaged by the floods.

Meanwhile, the District Livestock Office has shared that the floods have caused a huge loss in the district in the sectors including the damage to the paddy crops, vegetables, bananas, peanuts, cash crops and fisheries, among others.

Tinau, Danav and Rohini rivers were swollen and they inundated several places in the district, it is learned.