Five days long Sowing festival of Phalee Village of Ukhrul District came to an end today. The closing ceremony of the festival was marked with Cultural Day showcasing many cultural programs with the aim of cultural preservation and promotion. An indigenous food exhibition was also held in which the villagers of Phalee exhibit their own produce.
Attending the closing ceremony, Intending Candidate of Outer Manipur Parliamentary Constituency for the upcoming Lok Sabha Election Dr. Alyson Abonmei expressed that the sowing festival celebrated by this Tangkhul-inhabited village will strengthen the working spirit and will help enhance production he also expressed the needs of government attention in mending the difficulties and disadvantages facing by the villagers, he said that people will feel the presence of a government if they are accountable to the mandate given by the people.
Attending the ceremony President of Ching Tam Women Development Association N. Kunjeshwori expressed the lack of a proper market faced by the people in the hills in selling their produce despite large production. Lack of markets, proper transportation, and storage facilities forced the hard-produced farmer products to rot and impoverished them thereby resorting to easy, profitable illegal cash crops to earn and live an easy, poverty-free life, she added. She also said that it is the responsibility of the government to provide a feasible market, storage facilities, and connectivity to the hills to sell the products and save the people of the hills from resorting to illegal means.
She said that celebrating cultural day is very essential for the preservation and promotion of culture and we should support this with the thought that “Our Culture is Our Identity.”
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