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NEPAL, 1968. The mounting pressures of over population, soil erosion and land hunger are driving increasing numbers of the hill farmers of northern Nepal down to the southern plains. Of late the flow has been increasing. To ease the settler problem - aggravated by returning migrants from Burma and Assam-the Government has established new colonies in the Terai Plain along the Indian border. Previously inactive land has been distributed free. The UN/FAO World Food Programme is shipping in 1,350,000 daily rations to tide the settlers' families over the first agricultural season until their crops can be harvested from land allocated at the border town of Nepalganj.
Settlers' children at village school.