India is providing a grant assistance of 2.59 crore rupees to Nepal for installation of 350 Shallow Tube Wells in District Siraha. The assistance is given under the India-Nepal Economic Cooperation Programme. A Memorandum of Understanding was signed today by the Embassy of India,Kathmandu with Ground Water Resources Development Board under Nepal's Ministry of Irrigation. The project will provide assured all season irrigation facility to about 1050 hectares of land.In the field of irrigation, India is currently providing 17.71 crore rupees to install 1,000 tube- wells in the two districts of Mahottari and Dhanusha and 22 Deep Tube Wells in Jhapa, Sunsari, Siraha and Saptari Districts of Terai region, known as the granary of Nepal AIR Kathmandu Correspondent reports that agriculture, the largest sector of the Nepalese economy, constitutes about 39 percent of country's GDP. Nepal has 2.6 million hectares of cultivable land out of which only about 1.2 million hectares have irrigation facilities. The Indian assistance comes at a time when many districts of Nepal are facing food crisis due to delayed monsoon this year. According to the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) almost 3.5 million Nepalese people are facing food scarcity in the current year.