IN PICTURES: Farmers gear for Ropain fest
KATHMANDU, June 29: With the onset of monsoon, farmers have started to sow plants in their fields across the country. Of the monsoon season, one of the most prominent dates of plantation is Asar 15, well known as plantation (ropain) festival. Ropain in Nepali means rice plantation. The day is important to farmers as it marks the day they plant new seedlings of rice crops of the year.
Farmers celebrate the day as the festival as they play with the mud and water, plough the field, plants rice and eat beaten rice with yoghurt (dahi-chiura).Asare Bhaka or Asare Jhyaure geet is the famous folk tune/song that is sung in the paddy fields during rice plantation this month. The day is well marked even in the urban cities at least by taking beaten rice with yoghurt.
A farmer seperates rice sapplings before planting them at Manohora, Bhaktapur.
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