An Indian village agricultural ecosystem- case study of Ungra village, Part I: Main observations

Ravindranath, N. H.; Nagaraju, S.; Somashekar, H. I.; Channeswarappa, A.; Balakrishna, M. S.; Balachandran, B.N.; Reddy, Amulya K. N.; Srinath, Pavan; Prakash, Chetan; Ramaiah, C.; Kothandaramaiah, P.

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“…The people inhabiting in these zones and surroundings are experiencing decline in resource value [1], so their access to various components of natural resources is becoming a limiting factor to survive. The tribal villages near forests mainly perform their activities by recycling resources within the system [2,3,4,5] The traditional practices of ethnic human population which was a sustainable way of living with ecosystem are being modified due to resource depletion and imbibing modern way of livings. This defeats the goals of biodiversity conservation in natural forest ecosystems as demand driven society will cause depletion and extinction of living natural species.…”

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Agroecosystem Sustainability in Forest Dependent Tribal Villages in Odisha, Eastern India

Nayak,

Mishra,

Upadhyay

2023

AJEE

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The present study was carried out in Niyamgiri hills inhabited by primitive Dongaria tribes in Odisha to assess present state of socioeconomic components of village and efficiency and viability of production systems at the current level of natural resource dependency and to find out the linkage between human community and forest ecosystem. The study area comprises of eight villages where human population varies from 83 to 312 in uphill villages and 76 to 150 in foothill villages. The cultivated area ranges from 3.37% to 18.85% of the total village geographical area with per capita cultivated area 0.117 to 0.329 ha.. The quality of forest has been affected due to absolute dependency on resources which calls for taking appropriate step to enhance forest productivity. All villages depend on rain fed agriculture, natural stream water is used to cultivate paddy in valleys, shifting (Podu) cultivation practiced in uphill areas, mid hill orchards below the Podu area and home garden adjoining habitation. Cereals, pulses and oil seeds are grown together in Podu areas. Maize is a major cereal as staple food grown in uphill villages. The village productivity of Millets, legumes and paddy is much lower than other settled agriculture areas of the state. The home garden areas are grown with vegetables and cereals especially for domestic use. However, vegetables like Tomato, Brinjal, Bin, Sweet Potato, Chilly from foothill villages are marketed. Home garden provides variety of requirements to the tribal community round the year. The production of agriculture sub-system is not sufficient to meet the food requirement of villages and rice distributed to villagers meet this gap. However, crops grown as horticulture products (Jackfruit, Pine apple, Banana, Orange, Mango) and a few Millet crops in the uphill villages like minor Millets, are exported to markets for earning money as these are only assets recorded as high energy valued products. Odisha Millet Mission (OMM) may need to provide interventions to these villages with modern approach to increase Millet productivity including improvements in seed quality and health condition of the tribal community. To ensure sustainability of the traditional cultivation and livelihood system, involving the people of these villages in forest-based activities other than agriculture will lead to protecting the indigenous biodiversity of this region.

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Agroecosystem Sustainability in Forest Dependent Tribal Villages in Odisha, Eastern India

Nayak,

Mishra,

Upadhyay

2023

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“…Studies by Ravindranath et al (1981aRavindranath et al ( , b, 1991, Ravindranath and Chanakya (1994) and Gadgil et al (2000) are among the very few which have linked the different components of a village ecosystem emphasizing the need for monitoring, providing a conceptual basis for village level planning and ecosystem sustainability. Some of these studies also draw observations and implications pertaining to ecosystem services, but the scale of these make them weak to provide basis for further studies.…”

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Indicator based approach for monitoring natural resources of village ecosystems: findings from select ecosystems of southern India

Tiwari

Murthy

Ravindranath

2011

Environ Dev Sustain

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Indian village ecosystems are diverse with respect to population pressures, agricultural activities and production, livestock composition, energy sources, economics and infrastructural capabilities. Natural resource degradation is a major global concern and the factors and processes leading to degradation are regional and scale up from the micro levels such as village ecosystems. There is need for integrated multidisciplinary approaches for monitoring the resource status and environmental issues at the decentralized level. This paper presents an approach to assess village ecosystems using a set of key indicators developed and tested across fourteen diverse village ecosystems of the Southern India. The concept of ecosystem services associated with village ecosystems of India has been described and adopted to identify indicators and assess issues and trends. Comparison across villages has been demonstrated and the indicators successfully reflected the key environmental issues at each village level as well as differences across villages. We also report unique cases of stabilized land use and 'desakota-like' trends from village ecosystem studied.

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The relevance of semi-dwarf high yielding varieties (HYV) to the traditional agro-ecosystem

Bhatia

Mitra

1983

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An Indian village agricultural ecosystem- case study of Ungra village, Part I: Main observations

Cited by 23 publications

References 2 publications

Agroecosystem Sustainability in Forest Dependent Tribal Villages in Odisha, Eastern India

Agroecosystem Sustainability in Forest Dependent Tribal Villages in Odisha, Eastern India

Indicator based approach for monitoring natural resources of village ecosystems: findings from select ecosystems of southern India

The relevance of semi-dwarf high yielding varieties (HYV) to the traditional agro-ecosystem

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