Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from April, 2022

Ganglapongpas- And the story of the land lost to flood

Ganglapong is a small and remote village of Mongar. It is located at about 12km drive from Austho-Lhentse highway. Since it is located above 2000m from the sea level, Ganglongpong experience warm and heavy shores during summer and cold-dusty winter. There are about 70 household with more than 150 people living in the village. Almost of all the people depends on agriculture farming. They practices mixed kind of farming where people grow crops as well as rear cattle for livelihood. What are the crops grown by the villagers? Well, this is the story I am going to narrate today.  Our villagers used to own both dry and wet land until year 2003. Our parents used to grow maize and paddy sufficiently for all mouths in the family. However, after the unfortunate flood in the year 2003, we lost our land to flood and had to depend on imported rice thereafter. Brief story of flood (Introduction of disaster-flood)   Satellite Map of the Ganglapong explaining disaster. Back in 2003, our village ha