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Tribal agriculture: The Chuktia Bhunjias in Central India [1]

Primitive tribal communities like the Chuktia Bhunjias living in Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and Orissa continue to practise traditional agriculture using bio-cultural resources. Policymakers must learn from them in order to challenge the conventional model of agricultural production and food insecurity, as also about how to make development sustainable.

Publication Date: 
20/03/2010
Bhubaneswar Sabar [2]
Economic and Political Weekly [3]
45
12
77
Tags:
Land Use [4], Agriculture [5], Shifting Cultivation [6], Rice [7], Tribals [8], Traditional Knowledge [9], Sunabeda SA [10], India [11], Chhattisgarh [12], Maharashtra [13], Orissa (Odisha) [14]
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