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Agriculture | Adivasis on course to revive traditional farm practices - Dibyendu Chaudhuri and Parijat Ghosh

Adivasis on course to revive traditional farm practices - Dibyendu Chaudhuri and Parijat Ghosh

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published Published on Sep 7, 2020   modified Modified on Sep 7, 2020

-VillageSquare.in

Deskilling of Central Indian Plateau Adivasis has led to loss of traditional knowledge and indigenous seeds. Efforts are on to reskill them by reviving traditional practices

“The food is not tasty anymore. We do not feel strong. We are taking poison,” said Temba Oraon, an elderly villager in Jana, a village in Gumla district of Jharkhand. Hirasand Oraon, another villager, his thoughts and added that the soil was more fertile earlier.

The villagers said that it was no longer possible to grow the same healthy foods. “People are growing hybrid varieties, because the yield is good,” said one of them. “One needs to apply chemical fertilizers but the fertilizers make the soil hard.”

In 2017, a group of development practitioners from Professional Assistance for Development Action (PRADAN), a non-profit organization, attended a course on development perspective at Azim Premji University (APU) and learnt about deskilling.

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VillageSquare.in, 7 September, 2020, https://www.villagesquare.in/2020/09/07/adivasis-on-course-to-revive-traditional-farm-practices/


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