Traditional knowledge is the backbone of the agricultural system of any country. These traditional knowledge-based agricultural practices were phased out and replaced with modern agricultural practices. However, in the present scenario, these time tested traditional practices again have made a comeback due to their ability to sustain and overcome the obstacles posed by anthropogenic activities, land degradation, excessive and rampant usage of fertilizers, insecticides and pesticides, etc. In spite of this traditional knowledge has been confined to some secluded areas in particular among the indigenous, tribal, forest-dwelling communities. The present study has been aimed to document the Traditional knowledge-based agricultural practices in Tribal dominated District Anuppur, Madhya Pradesh. More than thirty agricultural practices have been documented during our study which has revealed the potential of this area which can be a model for natural, organic, sustainable farming, paving the way toward resilient agricultural systems.

Study was conducted in Bhopal district of M.P. in 2011. Unemployment and poverty in general is the non-availability of a remunerative work to people who are otherwise worthy of doing such work with requisite efficiency. Government has formulated innumerable schemes and projects, which are in an operation to check growing poverty as a multi-prolonging strategy. The government of India has been launching several schemes for the unemployed in the rural and urban area of the country. The present study is helpful to administrators, policy makers, researchers and banking/financing institutions for making future strategies and also explores the weakness of the present implementations. An overwhelming majority of the poor are in rural areas and continue to depend on agriculture for want of any other livelihood opportunities outside the sector. About 52 per cent of the country's workforce and over 60 per cent of the population depends on agriculture which now accounts for just 17 per cent of the country's GDP, thus, perpetuating rural poverty and widening the rural-urban divide. Economic motivation is the degree to which an individual intends to earn to the maximum extent. Economic motivation has been conceptualized as one's orientation towards profit maximization in farming.