Foreign tourists will be taken to the fields to see threshing.
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The Pokhara Tourism Council is organizing the second edition of the Daiin Festival on Saturday with the slogan 'Pokhara for All Seasons'. It was informed through a press conference on Thursday that the festival will be held from 9 am to 4 pm on Saturday at Churunga, Purunchaur, Pokhara Metropolitan City-19, in collaboration with the local Toll Development Organization.
Program coordinator Hari Bhujel said that the festival has been continued with the aim of promoting domestic and foreign tourism through agriculture, encouraging farmers, and informing the new generation about traditional agricultural systems. He said that it was necessary to explain about the harvester as foreign tourists participating in the Asar planting festival are interested in the production process.
‘Tourists who come to the planting festival plant rice, see it being planted. They ask us how it grows, how it grows,’ he said, ‘We have now seen the need for the harvester festival to explain this too.’
The festival will feature the best bull raising competition, the best paddy producer competition, the paddy threshing competition, the straw-tying competition, the gundri weaving competition, the distribution of hats to the threshers, and local gifts to guests, informed Chairman Bhujel.
The first-place winner in the best bull raising competition will receive a prize of Rs 5,000. ‘On the day of the festival, farmers bring their own bulls. Our judges evaluate those bulls. One bull will be declared the best,' he said.
Those who participate in other competitions and come first, second and third will receive prizes of Rs 3,000, 2,000 and 1,000 respectively. 'Except for cowherd, participation in all other competitions is open. Rice farmers must be from within the 33 wards of the metropolis. They will have to disclose how much rice they have produced and bring a recommendation from the ward and the Agriculture Division,' he said.
The organizers estimate that 800 to 1,000 tourists, including locals from Purunchaur, Pokhareli, domestic and foreign, will participate in the festival. Preparations are underway to take foreign tourists visiting Pokhara to the festival venue to show them how to thresh.
