Harisiddhi Rice Plantation

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Harisiddhi Rice Plantation

On the picture you see a man plouging the land with his hands. Some rich framers hire the tractor to plough the land and rural part of Nepal it is popular to use Oxes for ploughing. Mainly women work on planting the rice plants on the ploughed land by men since it involves hard work. In Nepal it is believed that women should not use Oxes to plough the land and it is purely mens job.

Just before the monsoon really starts people all over Nepal start to plant rice and Nepal is lush in green. The Hills are green. Fields are green. Entire Nepal is green. The Monsoon is the greenest time of the year in Nepal. The Newar farmers of the Kathmandu Valley are supposed to complete the planting of the rice before the Ghantakarna festival which starts exactly on the 14th day of the dark fortnight of Shrawan (June-July). Planting of the rice rougly takes arround seven weeks.