Participatory improvement of rice crops with tribal farmers in India
Participatory research, including participatory plant breeding (PPB), is now a recognized option for improving Ibe Livelihood security of unreached fanners. Tribal fanners in India provide an ideal group for testing the potential of participatory interventions. They live in remote areas, are intensi...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book Chapter |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Published: |
CGIAR Systemwide Program on Participatory Research and Gender Analysis for Technology Development and Institutional Innovation
2001
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/81880 |
| _version_ | 1855533047814815744 |
|---|---|
| author | Arunachalam, V. |
| author_browse | Arunachalam, V. |
| author_facet | Arunachalam, V. |
| author_sort | Arunachalam, V. |
| collection | Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (CGSpace) |
| description | Participatory research, including participatory plant breeding (PPB), is now a recognized option for improving Ibe Livelihood security of unreached fanners. Tribal fanners in India provide an ideal group for testing the potential of participatory interventions. They live in remote areas, are intensively bound by tradition, and continue to cultivate crops using traditional practices. For instance, the sowing time of crops is often based on a particular month, with an almanac date lo harvest the crop in time for is use during festive occasions. Although these traditional cultivation practices are often poorly matched with the weather, they continue because they are consonant with the habitat, soil, agro ecology, and available infrastructure. Soils are relatively free from the problems of continuous chemical fertilization. Most cultivated varieties are specific landrace. That carry special traits for cooking quality and taste, catering to the tribal fanners' methods of processing food. Tribal fanners live in small villages, inconveniently distant
from one another, and do not have readily accessible mean. Of producing and exchanging community seed. Traditional varieties landraces are also not commercially competitive. Driven by poverty, the tribal Canners yield to commercial exploitation where the cultivation of landraces, local varieties, and other valuable genetic material is replaced by Ibe cultivation of modem varieties despite the feat that they are not preferred by the tribal community. The result is a gradual erosion of precious genetic diversity, most of which is also site-specific. This situation calls ungently for preventive measures.
Jeypore tract in Orissa State is a secondary center of rice origin. Yet fanners do not realize the potential Yield of the rice landraces growing there. One reason is that the traditional practices developed essentiality for avoiding risks are out of tune with those needed for realizing high yields. Participatory initiatives, setting appropriate methods of cultivation based on a realistic evaluation should provide the right corrective step. This paper describes and discusses such initiatives in the Jeypore tract of Orissa. |
| format | Book Chapter |
| id | CGSpace81880 |
| institution | CGIAR Consortium |
| language | Inglés |
| publishDate | 2001 |
| publishDateRange | 2001 |
| publishDateSort | 2001 |
| publisher | CGIAR Systemwide Program on Participatory Research and Gender Analysis for Technology Development and Institutional Innovation |
| publisherStr | CGIAR Systemwide Program on Participatory Research and Gender Analysis for Technology Development and Institutional Innovation |
| record_format | dspace |
| spelling | CGSpace818802023-02-15T05:35:26Z Participatory improvement of rice crops with tribal farmers in India Arunachalam, V. oryza sativa land varieties ethnic groups farmers variedades indígenas fitomejoramiento grupos étnicos agricultores Participatory research, including participatory plant breeding (PPB), is now a recognized option for improving Ibe Livelihood security of unreached fanners. Tribal fanners in India provide an ideal group for testing the potential of participatory interventions. They live in remote areas, are intensively bound by tradition, and continue to cultivate crops using traditional practices. For instance, the sowing time of crops is often based on a particular month, with an almanac date lo harvest the crop in time for is use during festive occasions. Although these traditional cultivation practices are often poorly matched with the weather, they continue because they are consonant with the habitat, soil, agro ecology, and available infrastructure. Soils are relatively free from the problems of continuous chemical fertilization. Most cultivated varieties are specific landrace. That carry special traits for cooking quality and taste, catering to the tribal fanners' methods of processing food. Tribal fanners live in small villages, inconveniently distant from one another, and do not have readily accessible mean. Of producing and exchanging community seed. Traditional varieties landraces are also not commercially competitive. Driven by poverty, the tribal Canners yield to commercial exploitation where the cultivation of landraces, local varieties, and other valuable genetic material is replaced by Ibe cultivation of modem varieties despite the feat that they are not preferred by the tribal community. The result is a gradual erosion of precious genetic diversity, most of which is also site-specific. This situation calls ungently for preventive measures. Jeypore tract in Orissa State is a secondary center of rice origin. Yet fanners do not realize the potential Yield of the rice landraces growing there. One reason is that the traditional practices developed essentiality for avoiding risks are out of tune with those needed for realizing high yields. Participatory initiatives, setting appropriate methods of cultivation based on a realistic evaluation should provide the right corrective step. This paper describes and discusses such initiatives in the Jeypore tract of Orissa. 2001 2017-06-20T08:59:46Z 2017-06-20T08:59:46Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/81880 en Open Access CGIAR Systemwide Program on Participatory Research and Gender Analysis for Technology Development and Institutional Innovation Arunachalam, V.. 2001. Participatory improvement of rice crops with tribal farmers in India. In: An exchange of experiences from South and South East Asia: Proceedings of the international symposium on Participatory plant breeding and participatory plant genetic resources enhancement, Pokhara, Nepal, 1-5 May 2000. Cali: CGIAR Program for Participatory Research and Gender Analysis: 127-132. |
| spellingShingle | oryza sativa land varieties ethnic groups farmers variedades indígenas fitomejoramiento grupos étnicos agricultores Arunachalam, V. Participatory improvement of rice crops with tribal farmers in India |
| title | Participatory improvement of rice crops with tribal farmers in India |
| title_full | Participatory improvement of rice crops with tribal farmers in India |
| title_fullStr | Participatory improvement of rice crops with tribal farmers in India |
| title_full_unstemmed | Participatory improvement of rice crops with tribal farmers in India |
| title_short | Participatory improvement of rice crops with tribal farmers in India |
| title_sort | participatory improvement of rice crops with tribal farmers in india |
| topic | oryza sativa land varieties ethnic groups farmers variedades indígenas fitomejoramiento grupos étnicos agricultores |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/81880 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT arunachalamv participatoryimprovementofricecropswithtribalfarmersinindia |