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Phangyul’s irrigation scheme transforms lives

Dec 06, 2024 2 mins read

Sumcho Pem, 45, from Phangyul Goenpa, Wangdue was all smiles as she took Mafalda Duarte, executive director of Green Climate Fund (GCF) to her paddy fields where she was threshing her rice harvest. It is Sumcho Pem’s first rice harvest in about five decades.

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