KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Thousands of farmers and their families across Nepal celebrated an annual paddy festival by planting rice, splashing in the muddy fields and enjoying a special feast. The ...

National Paddy Planting Day or Dhan Diwas is a celebration across the country. It is an even bigger deal here in Pokhara Valley which grows some of Nepal’s most famous indigenous varieties of rice ...

Farmers work in a paddy field on the occasion of National Paddy Day in Lalitpur, Nepal, June 29, 2025. The National Paddy Day marks the beginning of the paddy planting season in Nepal. (Photo: Xinhua) ...

Splashing mud and drinking local rice beer, Nepali farmers this week celebrated National Paddy Day to mark the beginning of the rice-planting season, despite some coronavirus lockdown measures still ...

Farming communities across Nepal came out by their hundreds of thousands to transplant rice seedings on Tuesday, which is officially National Paddy Plantation Day. Most wore masks as the men waded ...

The Sejong the Great Royal Tombs Management Office of the Royal Palaces and Tombs Center announced on May 6 that it will host a rice planting experience event at the Witodap field of the Sejong the ...