Sri
Lanka will hold its annual New Rice Festival (Harvest Festival) Sunday
at the Sri Maha Bodhi premises in Anuradhapura with the participation of
President Mahinda Rajapaksa as the Chief Guest.
The traditional rice festival is held annually to invoke blessings for
the success of the harvests in both Yala and Maha seasons.
The farmers from different areas will
offer the first portion of their harvest to the Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi at
the ceremony. The ceremony will commence with a procession in the
morning. Chief Minister of North Central Province S.M.Ranjith said that
the festival has been held uninterruptedly for 46 years.
Meanwhile, the Chief Minister told the
state-run radio that the fertilizer subsidy being provided by the
government has now been given uninterruptedly for 17 cultivation seasons
and Sri Lanka has achieved self-sufficiency in rice now. A large number
of people who left farming in the past have now rejoined farming
activities and a vast area of abandoned paddy lands is also being
cultivated at present.
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