Kathmandu. Paddy Day, which is celebrated every year on June 15, is being celebrated today by working in the fields and eating curd powder.

Tired of work, farmers eat curd powder to gain strength. At this time, it is believed that curd powder accumulates energy by cooling the body. June 15 is also considered as the festival of eating dahi chura in Nepali society. Apart from farming, Nepalis engaged in other professions and businesses also celebrate June 15 by eating dahi chura today.

Curd has an important place in our culture. There is a tradition of going out of the house for auspicious work, going abroad, etc. before doing important work. Before going out for such auspicious activities, curd is also given in the form of sagoon. There is a popular belief that you have to eat curd while going out.

Yogurt is also considered to be scientifically healthy. Guru Gorakhnath is said to have prophesied that he would become mighty by giving curd to King Prithvi Narayan Shah, the unifier of Nepal. In Ayurveda, if you drink curd made at the end of the meal, you do not have to go to the health worker for medicine treatment. Sentences such as “Bhojante pibet takram vaidyasya ki nayagam” are also mentioned in Ayurveda. Yogurt also increases digestion.

Eating curd powder during diarrhea works as a medicine. Therefore, the culture of eating dahi chura has taken a big form in Nepali culture. In this way, June 15 has become a national cultural festival in The Nepali society.

National Paddy Day has been celebrated since July 1, 2062 BS after taking a ministerial-level decision on December 1, 2061 BS. Being an agricultural country, farming is the profession of most of the people of Nepal.

Farmers are busy in farming this month to earn food for the whole year. On this day, paddy is sown in the mud by singing folk songs in Asare Bhaka. Local songs such as ‘We will plant paddy in the chupu and chupu mud, make a well and come to the water’ are also enjoyed in the field.

In this time of mid-summer, young lathes and young planters entertain the fields by splashing mud on them. There is also a belief in nepali society that one has to enter the mud once in June.

This year, due to lack of adequate rainfall in all parts of the country till mid-July, paddy has not been sown as much as it should have. Farmers complain that there is a shortage of chemical fertilizers in some places. However, the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development has claimed that there is sufficient stock of chemical fertilizers.