Rice Planting in Nepal
- Live with local.
- Learn how to plant paddy.
- Help farmers organize sowing of saplings
- Play with the mud with your friends, sing and dance to the local cultural tunes
- Feast on Dahi-Chiura (Yougart and beaten rice)
Qué esperar
Nepal is an agrarian nation, with agriculture accounting for the majority of its GDP. Monsoon season in Nepal In Nepal’s rural areas, Paddy Plantation Jatra, as it is known locally, is observed in a more elaborate and customary manner. One of the main jobs in agriculture nowadays for a self-sufficient household is cattle husbandry.
Ropai Jatra ( paddy plantation day) is a time of happiness among Nepalese people. With the arrival of monsoon, paddy seeds are sowed and nurtured to make the plant ready to be replanted later, which is in the festival time. Meanwhile, the fields are plowed and leveled. Monsoon rains soon make, the field muddy and wet making it a perfect condition for planting of paddy. The semi grown paddy plant is uprooted and replanted in the muddy fields.
