Agera (festival)
agera east indian आगेरा thanksgiving harvest festival celebrated roman catholic community mumbai primarily bombay east indian festival also celebrated mumbai thane raigad vasai traditional harvest festival held beginning october grain would ready harvest lasted five day festival celebrated east indian family mumbai festival would commence priest every community going field bless newly harvested crop giving thanks god along farmer villager coming together prayer community would celebrate delicious food singing dance word agera derived latin word ager mean field farm agricola mean farmer agera fall first sunday october normally called harvest festival farmer cut crop offer first fruit god normally seen throughout india different community celebrate festive way east indian people engaged agricultural activity observed festival paddy harvested subsequently brought local church ceremonial procession procession characteristically accompanied east indian band member catholic community transport paddy horsedrawn bullock cart culminating presentation church upon arrival priest bestow blessing upon harvest following religious service blessed harvest distributed household attendance festival culminates east indian cultural event held various village including kurla marol others