THAILAND: A BOUNTIFUL AGRICULTURAL SEASON FOR THAILAND PREDICTED IN ANNUAL PLOUGHING CEREMONY.

Record ID: 649248

  • Title: THAILAND: A BOUNTIFUL AGRICULTURAL SEASON FOR THAILAND PREDICTED IN ANNUAL PLOUGHING CEREMONY.
  • Date: 9th May 1975
  • Summary: 1. SV PAN Procession of buglers, participants and crowd (3 shots) 0.22 2. GV King and Queen arrive 0.30 3. MV Crowd 0.34 4. GV King and Queen at opening ceremony 0.43 5. MV PAN Women carry seeds in buckets 0.53 6. GV & SV Ploughing ceremony in progress (3 shots) 1.14 7. SV Man banging drum 1.17 8. SV Ceremony continues 1.22 9. MV ZOOM OUT TO CU King and Queen look on 1.34 10. GV Man throws seedling rice over ground and crowds watch (2 shots) 1.50 11. GV Crowd rush to ground where seeds sewn 2.02 Initials BJB/2305 BJB/2340 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 24th May 1975 13:00
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  • Location: SANAM LUANG, THAILAND
  • Country: Thailand
  • Reuters ID: LVA552BT2XT2TY1MY5UJ8OUH0JWI
  • Story Text: It will be a bountiful agricultural season in Thailand this year if predictions made at the annual Ploughing Ceremony are proven right.

    The Ceremony, attended by the King and Queen of Thailand, is a colourful ritual, designed to bring luck and fertility to the year's crops.

    Both Buddhist and the Brahmin faiths influence the Ploughing ceremony, which dates back to the Sukhothai period in the thirteenth century. As the King and queen look on, government and religious officials plough the ground with the help of sacred oxen, and then plant rice breeder seeds.
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