This Mattu Pongal festival focuses on celebrating the domestic cattle which helps farmers all around the year from ploughing the fields to harvesting the crops.
Coimbatore: Mattu Pongal is a very integral part of the Pongal festival. With the festival to be celebrated tomorrowfarmers in Coimbatore are getting ready to welcome the festival with warmth and happiness. Since areas in and around Coimbatore is home to a large population of farmers and cattle growers, the Mattu Pongal festival is celebrated in grandeur every year.
People who have cattle at their houses clean the sheds and decorate them. Later the cattle are given a nice bath and are their horns are decorated with bright colours.
This Mattu Pongal festival focuses on celebrating the domestic cattle which helps farmers all around the year from ploughing the fields to harvesting the crops.
During Mattu Pongal 7 types of pongal are made in the presence of family and friends at the cattle sheds and a prayer is made to keep them in good health.
Workers at the farm lands are thanked for their services from the sowing to the harvest season. To commemorate the hard work of labourers throughout the year, employers and employees sit and eat at the same place celebrating the festival with the feeling of brotherhood.
Farmer's in Coimbatore and Pollachi say that Mattu Pongal celebrations tomorrow night will be one of the highlight events of the pongal festival this year.
People who have cattle at their houses clean the sheds and decorate them. Later the cattle are given a nice bath and are their horns are decorated with bright colours.
This Mattu Pongal festival focuses on celebrating the domestic cattle which helps farmers all around the year from ploughing the fields to harvesting the crops.
During Mattu Pongal 7 types of pongal are made in the presence of family and friends at the cattle sheds and a prayer is made to keep them in good health.
Workers at the farm lands are thanked for their services from the sowing to the harvest season. To commemorate the hard work of labourers throughout the year, employers and employees sit and eat at the same place celebrating the festival with the feeling of brotherhood.
Farmer's in Coimbatore and Pollachi say that Mattu Pongal celebrations tomorrow night will be one of the highlight events of the pongal festival this year.