Climate change impacts India's harvest festivals
Key takeaways
- As people across India celebrate traditional agrarian spring festivals, climate change has become an unwanted guest at the table.
- Not just from the coming of spring, but seasonal festivals characterized by folk music, dancing, farmers in traditional dress, and dishes like sweet saffron rice.
- Among them is Vaisakhi, which is an important festival date on the Sikh calendar.
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As people across India celebrate traditional agrarian spring festivals, climate change has become an unwanted guest at the table. How are communities rising to the pressure on harvests, water, and rural life?
https://p.dw.com/p/5CKk3Festivals connected to agriculture are common in parts of India, but the challenges of rising temperatures are changing the face of farming Image: Anupam Nath/AP Photo/picture alliance Advertisement Parts of rural northern India are currently exploding in color. Not just from the coming of spring, but seasonal festivals characterized by folk music, dancing, farmers in traditional dress, and dishes like sweet saffron rice.
Among them is Vaisakhi, which is an important festival date on the Sikh calendar. Held in the northern province of Punjab, it marks the successful growth of winter wheat, and crops like mustard, chickpeas, lentils, barley and sunflower seeds.