Fruits and Vegetables at Pahiyas Festival in the Philippines

Fruits and vegetables in celebration of the Pahiyas festival in honor of the Patron Saint Isidro Labrador. The festival is held in Lucban in Quezon Province.

Unique identifier: GP0STOD5O

Type: Image

Shoot date: 15/05/2014

Locations: Luzon, Philippines, Quezon, Southeast Asia

Credit line: © Jed Delano / Greenpeace

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

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Pahiyas Festival Documentation in the Philippines

Colorful celebration of the feast of San Isidro is Lucban’s Pahiyas Festival, a visual spectacle where houses come alive with decorations of colorful kiping (rice wafers) arranged in layered chandeliers called arangya. Some houses creatively shape kipings into flowers, butterflies and other unique patterns accented with rice panicles, rice seedlings, fruits and vegetables. Some even play out farm scenes complete with rice stalks shaped as farmers and carabaos, depicting farm activities such as ploughing, harvesting, threshing and hauling among others.
As rice is an integral part of the Filipino culture, it is very important for the people to be aware of the external threats to their unique rice traditions. Recent news about the eventual release of the genetically engineered (GE) ‘Golden’ rice, supposedly rich in beta carotene should alarm Filipinos.

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