In Manang, in April, there are small, conical mounds of earth in a regular array along the mountain slopes. What are they?

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These seem like plantings, but not on terraces nor. They appear to be an alternative way to ploughing and planting in furrows.

Carl Alexander Frisk

Could be soil mounds from gophers, voles or moles or similar type of burrowing animal.

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