Participants play in the mud as they plant rice saplings during National Paddy Day, also called Asar Pandra, that marks the commencement of rice crop planting in paddy fields as monsoon season arrives, in Dhading, on Sunday, June 30, 2019. Photo: Skanda Gautam/THT
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