Farmers celebrated Ellu Amavasya in Yadgir

The yearly festival of the farming community, Ellu Amavasya, was celebrated with spiritual fervour successful Yadgir territory connected Friday.

Farming families accompanied by friends performed rituals that signify worshipping Mother Earth and made offerings of jowar-mixed nutrient items.

“It is the premier work of each husbandman to honour Mother Earth by making offerings to the fields with a supplication for a bully output successful the rabi season,” Chandrashekhargouda Bilwar, a husbandman from Hadnur village, said.

Traditionally, it is simply a signifier of thanksgiving to Mother Earth during which farmers connection a peculiar puja connected their farmland earlier they person a feast together.

“We are indebted to Mother Earth. Through the puja and offerings, we convey Mother Earth. For centuries, it has been the practice. It volition proceed for centuries to come,” said Bheem Reddy, who besides belongs to a farmer’s family.

The feast usually consists of a assortment of dishes, including jowar and bajra rotis, groundnut chutney, spicy dishes of atom and millets and sweets.

For the farming families, the time begins early, arsenic they person to hole the peculiar feast earlier heading to their farmland. “We statesman preparing nutrient aboriginal successful the morning. The accustomed signifier is to stock it with others aft the puja,” different farmer, Rudragouda Patil, said.