This is the harvesting season in Nepal. It is a very important time for farmers. The main crops are rice, millet and beans. We can see many kinds of bean harvesting such as soybean, Mas(for Dal soup), Bodee, etc.

Beans are planting together with rice and millet. Soyabean and Mas are planted at the boundary of the rice field. They are planed at the same time in June or July. Bodee, which can use to make soup, is planted together with millet at the same time in May or June.

After harvesting, farmers keep the beans outside for some days to dry. They use wooden stick to separate the seed from the pod. The farmers keep seed for next season also.

We use beans all years. We have many bean recipe. Dal soup is very famous in Nepal. People always cooks it in the winter. In Hananoie we cook Nepali food or Japanese from soybean, for example Tofu. It can be mixed in Nepali curry.