The 2nd Day of the Mon Edition of International Hornbill Festival celebrates with stretch of stalls selling ethnic wears to different traditional handicrafts and culinary items to the visitors, creating employment opportunities in the district.

Speaking to the DPRO, Mon, the organizers of the stalls highlighted the display and sale of various traditional and modern ethnic wears including the waist- coats, neck tie, earnings made of fine beads and shawls of varied colours. Spears and daos smelted from across the district including from Wakching areas.

Culinary items like Namann - a traditional biscuit made of sesame seed, donuts produced from fox-tailed millets, gooseberry pickles, wild-apples snacks, etc. were included on the sale. Oil palm seeds from Tizit area, jobstears millets,Taro (yam) and other items are on sale at the Agri. Department, Mon stall.

Handicrafts and arts items including kettle and cups, carved out from bamboo and woven around with thin bamboo strips creating a motifs on the outer parts and bamboo baskets are on sale and display at the stalls.

The organizers of the stalls invited the visitors to pay visit to various stalls and taste the blend of Konyak culinary items and take home the souvenirs made from the hands of Mon artist.

The participants at the stalls included the Progressive SHG Chen block, Khongphang SHG- Angjangyang, Shoalam SHG Tizit block, Pannyungu Yonglan SHG Wakching block, Mon block, Department of Agriculture and Horticulture Mon and others.

 (Tansumong, IA Chen)