The third edition of a two-day Orange festival has been organised from 24 to 25 January in Nagaland’s Rusoma village to mark the harvest of organic oranges in the district. Rusoma Village is situated about 8 kilometres from the state’s capital Kohima and cultivates pure organic oranges, leading to the celebration of the Orange festival.

• The festival which displayed the harvested organic oranges from the village, as well as handicrafts, was inaugurated by K. Neibu Sekhose, the Additional Director of the Department of Rural Development in Nagaland.
• Spokesperson of the festival, Kekhrie Pfukha said that orange harvest was less this year owing to the change in climatic conditions.