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Celebration National Rice Plantation Day |
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On the auspicious occasion of 15th Ashad(28th June), every year ?Dhann Diwas? (Literally translated as Rice Plantation Day) is celebrated at National level. All national and local newspaper are all flooded with news headline of Rice Plantation Celebration. Different I/NGOs, GOs, farmers? group, youth clubs celebrate auspicious occasion with great zeal. The joyous moment used be celebrated since prehistoric time but it was officially endorsed by Government on 2060BS(2003 AD) as an acknowledgement to farmers whose toil and hardship have made us survive. Not to mention, agriculture has highest contribution on GDP and provides employment opportunities to more than 60% of population. Through our own eco-club The Eco Minions(TEM), we celebrated ?12th National Rice Plantation? Day at Dibyanagar, located few miles from Agriculture and Forestry University(AFU) where I am pursuing my agriculture study. This year?s theme was ?Mechanisation in rice farming, cost minimisation in production?. The program was jointly coordinated by Upakar Bhandari and myself Rahul Acharya. Despite being located near district headquarter ( now it being recently included on municipality) and premier Agriculture University, Dibyanagar is still backward in terms of physical and economical development. Most of the I/NGOs are reluctant to go there due to being near the cities and Government projects often miss the place due to same reason. Nevertheless, they are one of the most helpful communities filled with realistic goals. Before the day of celebration, we went for the field inspection and hold small community meeting with ?Sagun Fresh Vegetable Farmers? Group? who were our major local partner. We briefed about the programs that we were going to have and encouraged them to call all the farmers and other people to celebrate festive. That was when we knew about the condition of Dibyanagar. EVENTS:
This way we celebrated our National Rice Plantation Day. But there are somethings that made me ponder whole day and after. It is expected to have all the field already transplanted by Ashad 15. However, more than 75% were still barren. Thanks to erratic rainfall, climate change and inability of resource poor farmers to use irrigation/boring facilities( which are also inadequate amount). This made me scare while charm for agriculture is fading exponentially, such condition just add fuels to the fire. And, we had almost nil participation of male. When we inquired about why are men not showing up, almost all of them have been to Foreign countries. When sons and husbands are all abroad , hardship of agriculture and family burden has come to shoulder of women. Women who are devoid of necessary training and knowledge. If this continues to prevail, i can't imagine the aftermath and future of the place. This is where we need to ponder. Bring back the lost charm of agriculture and show lucrative aspect of agriculture. Its time we rejuvenate agriculture and make farming communities prosperous. I am thank full to all the helping hands. Loads of thanks to my TEM members and friends for cherishing with us and farmers. I do believe we have been able to bring close together academician, students and farmers together and celebrate biggest feast. |
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8 Comments
Yes, we did what we could. Nevertheless, we had lots of fun and finger crossed for coming amazing days :D
Thanks for going through report Upakar :D
Posted 28-07-2015 20:36
Limited Resource Unlimited Fun
Posted 28-07-2015 14:03
YES. IT feels great to spend quality time with farmers and interactive with them :)
Posted 25-07-2015 23:14
It was really a wonderful day, well spent with farmers. We had quality of time in the field, planting rice :)
Cheers Rahul brother!
Posted 25-07-2015 00:23
Thank you Luiz for going through report.
It's cherishing to see youths all over world advocating for environment. And I like the projects you are engaged in :)
Posted 24-07-2015 10:29
It'great to see women taking responsibility and handling them so well. They are improving and getting empower and now empowering the whole society. Saying this, I would like to stress on this point that if we have equal participation and share burden, we can gurantee development. Still, we need vigorous training and skill development program to usher quality of living. Thank you so much for going through report Arushi
Posted 24-07-2015 10:25
That was beautiful Rahul!!!I am always proud to see Nepal working out forenvironmental education. Thanks for sharing the Rice Plantation Day Celebration. Keep it up!!! =)
Posted 24-07-2015 06:58
WOW! What a celebration of Rice Plantation Day. I like the concept of celebrating this day as a mark of respect to farmers , reemphasising the role and contribution of agriculture to Nepal's GDP. It's indeed disappointing to note thin participation of male population due to whatsoever reason. On other hand it is really good to see women shouldering the responsibility of agriculture.Thanks for well written report.
Posted 24-07-2015 02:26