The National Paddy Day is being marked today across the country.

The government in 2061 BS had decided to mark Ashad 15 of the Nepali calendar every year as National Paddy Day and Paddy Cultivation Festival. 

Rice plantation, eating delicacies like curd and beaten rice and participating in the traditional cultural programs like singing, throwing mud at each other and merriment are the major attractions of the day.

Paddy is the major crop not only in Nepal but in entire South Asia.