A training program for Baiga women on making food items using Kodo (Kodo Millet) and Kutki (Little Millet)
Naresh Biswas Kodo (Kodo millet) and Kutki (Little millet) are the major crops and staple food items of the Baiga indigenous people of the Baigachak area of Dindori district, MP. In addition to Kodo and Kutki the Baiga Adivasis of the area also cultivate Mandia (finger milliet), Salhar, Sawa, Kangni (Foxtail millet), Jowar (Sorghum), Makka […]
Annual Tuber Harvesting from Nakna Jungle by the Pahari Korwas of Amanara village, Raigarh District, Chhattisgarh
Rohan Mukerjee The month of Mang, which starts around 22nd January, marks the commencement of the peak season for harvesting wild tubers by Pahari Korwas in the forests of Raigarh District, Chhattisgarh. Wild tubers make a vital contribution to the nutritional security of the Pahari Korwas. Some tubers are also commercially important NTFPs which are […]
Exhibition of Uncultivated Food and Traditional Seeds of the Pahari Korwas and PVTG Conference for Birhor, Pando and Pahari Korwa Tribes – Kendha Village, Dharamjaigarh Block, Raigarh District Chhattisgarh, 6th December 2019
Naresh Biswas and Rohan Mukerjee On the 6th of December a conference for the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) of Raigarh District of Chhattisgarh focusing on the Birhor, Pando and Pahari Korwa tribes was held at Kendha village which is located at the foothills of Chui Pahar in Dharamjaigarh Block of Raigarh District, Chhattisgarh. Through […]
Tuber garden cum tuber bank at Abbalathi village, Periyapatna, Karnataka
Ramachandran K G Participation in two tuber festivals has made a Jenukuruba women’s group from Abbalathi village in Periya patna area think about their traditional varieties of tubers. They wanted to revive them and started to think about a nursery to bring back some of the tuber species to their homesteads. They were not allowed […]
Tuber banks at Nedunkayam village, Nilambur, Kerala
By Ramachandran K G and Sunilkumar N Tubers were once an integral and inevitable part of the diet of Adivasi communities of Nilambur like anywhere else. They knew a lot about different varieties of edible wild tubers growing within the forests. They had also cultivated many different varieties of tubers in their farmland, however small […]
Oottulsavam (Feast Festival) – Nedunkayam Pania Hamlet, Nilambur, Kerala
By Sunilkumar N and Ramachandran K G A special festival was held at Nedunkayam Paniya hamlet, in Nilambur of Kerala from April 16th to 20th 2019. This festival is called either ‘Oottulsavam’ (feast festival) or ‘Daiva koduthi’ (offering to Gods) in Paniya dialect. Paniya elders stated that, two to three decades ago, the festival had […]
