Bengali New Year is known as Pohela Boishakh as well which denotes the first day of the first month of the Bengali solar datebook. This year, Bengali New Year is on Thursday, 15 April.
Bengalis greet people at this festival by saying “Shubho Nobobarsho” which means “prosperous New Year”. The traditional way to celebrate this blissful occasion is to go to fairs that are organized across West Bengal and Tripura with families.
The traditional way to celebrate Pohela Boishakh is by spending time with your loved ones, visiting fairs, cleaning up one’s houses and getting new clothes. The Bengali Community purchases the Panjika, as the year ends. Panjika is a book that contains all the significant dates for the impending events of the New Year. All the positive events including housewarming and wedding ceremonies are then planned with keeping Panjika in mind. Houses are decorated with rangoli in their courtyards made with a mixture of rice and water (alpona).
Pahela Baishakh celebrations are imperfect without plates of Panta Bhat, which is Bengali style fermented rice served with either fish or Bhorta. For years, Bangalees, on their New Year, have been treating themselves to the conventional delicacies.
Back in the time, families of peasants would keep leftover rice from dinner by sopping it in water to have it as a meal the subsequent day.
But along with conventional values, Panta Bhat has its nutritional benefits as well.
In recent times, a study by the nourishment sector of Bangladesh Agriculture Research Council (Barc) showed that Panta Bhat has much more nutrients than cooked rice and thus it can be consumed all through the year.
Importance of Rice:
• Universal Staple Food
Rice is one of the most important food crops in the world, rice; wheat and maize collectively unswervingly contribute to more than half of all calories consumed by the total human population. Human consumption accounts for 85% of the entire production of rice.
Rice provides 21% of worldwide human per capita energy and 15% of per capita protein. Though rice protein ranks far above the ground in dietary quality among cereals, protein content is modest. Rice also provides minerals, vitamins, and fiber, Even though all components apart from carbohydrates are abridged by milling.
• Effect on the global economy
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Asia accounted for 60% of the global population, about 92% of the world’s rice production, and 90% of global rice consumption.
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