Happy Nuakhai Festival

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Today is a festival for the Odia people.

This is an important and basic festival for Odia people.

The festival is Nuakhai.

Nuakhai is the harvest festival of Western Odisha. The occasion marks the consumption of the first harvested crops and falls on the Bhadraba Shuklapakhya Panchami tithi, which is the day following Ganesh Chaturthi. It is the most important festival in the region and is an official holiday in Odisha.

In Odisha, Nuakhai, an important agrarian festival in the State is being celebrated today. Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and many other dignitaries have wished people peace, prosperity, and good health. As per the customary practice, people offer the new grains of crops to the deities before their own consumption.

Nuakhai is a festival that promotes mutual harmony and brotherhood. As our farmers are struggling relentlessly with uncertainties like drought due to low rainfall, and diseases due to indiscriminate use of pesticides, the festival of Nuakhai celebrates their hard work and struggle.

Harvest Festival in StateUttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka called as Makar Sankranti.

In Jharkhand state harvest festival Called as Sohrai.

In Odisha, the Nuakhai festival is like a collective festival for all Odia's People.

Nua- New     Khai- Food

Nuakhai- New Food

In Nuakhai all Odia people Gather to their own father's mother's home or they Gather to their Grand Father home with their wife, children, Brother they all gather and eat Nua. 

Harvest festivals are those that occur at the time of the main harvest of a particular, Each of the 29 states of India celebrates its harvest festival at different times throughout the year, owing to the diversity in climate and difference in the staple crop of a region.

After Nuakahi all odia people say to all odia people that Nuakahi juhar and they Vari to all people..

I hope this can give some information about the festival of Odia.

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