Alemane- Sugarcane Farm Festival (February)
The ‘Alemane’ or Jaggery Festival at BuDa is an effort to celebrate the harvest season once again in a region where land-based celebrations are dying out in favor of modern universal ones. With this festival, we brought back the tradition of jaggery making and the forgotten delicacies made with it, buried under modern industrialization and replaced by refined sugar.
How many delicacies could one ingredient possibly make, it is worth a thought. See expert cooks from the tribal communities make a myriad of foods you have never heard of – Huriakki Hunde, Kadabu and Airavata – making their presence felt with wafts of jaggery in the air.
Get to experience the traditional process of jaggery making as bulls walk in circles around the pivot to extract sugarcane juice. While the modern machine can extract 30 tins, this one merely produces 3 but the romance of the experience is unmistakable and the taste of hard work, even more so.
How many delicacies could one ingredient possibly make, it is worth a thought. See expert cooks from the tribal communities make a myriad of foods you have never heard of – Huriakki Hunde, Kadabu and Airavata – making their presence felt with wafts of jaggery in the air.
Get to experience the traditional process of jaggery making as bulls walk in circles around the pivot to extract sugarcane juice. While the modern machine can extract 30 tins, this one merely produces 3 but the romance of the experience is unmistakable and the taste of hard work, even more so.
