Manual Transplanting of Rice
Traditional Pulling of Rice Seedling |
Transplanting is the most common and traditional method of
crop establishment for rice in Lepcha cultures. Rice seedlings grown in a
nursery are pulled and transplanted into leveled fields. This is done in order
to get higher yields.
Manual Transplanting is done most by people of the village
itself with enthusiastic, passionate and vehement. They help each other for pulling
and transplanting of rice. The village people enjoy working in the paddy fields
by drinking testy organic millet wine. This method has been carried out hundred years to
keep the Lepcha tradition alive.
So come and see the Lepcha traditional rice farming and enjoy with
the millet wine at Lingthem Lyang Homestay.
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