Women Winnowing.

A wall painting, I come across this beautiful wall art at lagankhel...this amazing wall art where a woman is winnowing rice by nanglo. Winnowing is a tradition that is still practiced in both rural as well as urban areas of Nepal. Nepal is considered as an agricultural country, many types of grains are grown in large fields across the country.  Winnowing newly harvested rice is an important task. So, at a large extent winnowing is practiced by farmers to separate the grains from chaffs and supply edible crops to the market as well as for personal uses. She is seprating rice grains from the chaffs which we can see on art. Almost every household still winnow rice, lentils and other crops by the help of an equipment usually made by bamboo and it's called Nanglo in then Nepali language.

Rice, wheat, millet, barley and other crops are major food of many people in Nepal. The cultivation of rice is mainly dependent to rainfall which is the main determining factor. However, rice is cultivated in 1.5 million hectares of arable land in Nepal where rice is the main crops and contributed only around 50%(percent) in total crops production.

Though, with technology the method of seprating grains from chaffs have also became mechanised yet farmers and household prefer winnowing by their hands and winnowing is an almost everyday household activity in nepali families. Further more, it is also an interesting sight to see a farmer winnowing, the chaffs falling down and the grains being filtered in an easy traditional method. 

The government of Nepal has come so far that in 56 varieties of rice the most delicious and highly sold is Sabitri and Hardinath. 

The art which shows the traditional way of winnowing by a woman from a cultural group of the Tarai plains. The main purpose of Tarai region is cultivation because of better climate and soil then Himalayan.