Shifting cultivation is the major occupation and the main source of income of the marginal farmers(Jhumias) in Mizoram. At present, net area sown in Mizoram State is only 5.5%, of which, 16.9% area is devoted to shifting cultivation. Meanwhile, about 54% people, living in the rural areas...
In hilly regions of North East States shifting cultivation locally known as jhum continues to be dominant mode of food production and economic mainstay of many rural housholds.It is way of life which provides subsistence to the dependent community in form of food, fuel wood and fodder. Shift...
Paul SillitoeInternational Mountain Society and United Nations UniversityP. Sillitoe, "Shifting Cultivation and Sustainable Development of North-Eastern India," Tradition in Transition Mountain Research and Development, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 89-90, 2008....
Fire, a prevalent land management tool in rotational shifting cultivation (RSC), has long been debated for its immediate disruption of surface soil, vegetation, and microbial communities. While low-intensity and short-duration slash-and-burn techniques are considered beneficial for overall soil function...
Chapter 16 - Shifting cultivation in the East Garo Hills, Meghalaya (India) - : an Earth observation perspective Water, Land, and Forest Susceptibility and Sustainability 2023, Pages 439-458 Purchase options CorporateFor R&D professionals working in corporate organizations. Academic and personalFor aca...
Environment and Ethnicity in India, 1200-1991 Thus, contrary to the usual picture of shifting cultivators, Wola engage in 'repeated cultivation of sites, with minimal or no fallow breaks and no outside amendments, without a catastrophic decline in productivity' (p. A Place Against Time: Land ...
It is estimated that 1.73 million hectares of land use have been affected by shifting cultivation in Northeast India (FSI, 2000). In this region, more than 8.5 million tonnes of phytomass were burned annually (Choudhury et al., 2015). Soil fertility and sustainability have been disturbed by ...
Nga farmers adopt an age-old traditional cultivation system called shifting cultivation, where a land is selected for cultivation for one or two years and thereafter left it abandoned for several years. About 73% of the people in Nagaland are dependent on agriculture and most of them are involve...
Shifting cultivators in South Asia: Expansion, marginalisation and specialisation over the long term This paper will consider alternative perspectives on the long-term history of shifting cultivation in India and Sri Lanka. Ethnographic and historical acco... E Kingwell-Banham,Dorian Q, Fuller - 《...
'Jhum', a shifting agriculture technique pertaining to North-Eastern Region of India (NERI) is traditionally being practiced by local tribes from ancient ages. This practice accounts almost 86% of total shifting cultivation area of India, imposes a severe ecological threat to environment in hilly ...