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Alternate Land Uses for Shifting Cultivation in Eastern Ghats


     

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Shifting cultivation is prevalent in Orissa, followed by Manipur, Meghalaya,Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Madhya Pradesh, Tripura, Bihar and Nagaland, over more than 4 million ha of land. In Orissa, it is practiced in six agro-ecological zones, which one grouped under sub-humid red soil Eastern ghat high land agro-ecoregion. Koraput, Phulbani Kalahandi, Ganjam and adjoining Keonjhar and Sundergarh districts have been effected by shifting cultivation involving 0.69 million families and 3 million ha land. Possibilities of improving shifting cultivation and alternate land-use for the region are presented in this paper.
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Shifting cultivation is prevalent in Orissa, followed by Manipur, Meghalaya,Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Madhya Pradesh, Tripura, Bihar and Nagaland, over more than 4 million ha of land. In Orissa, it is practiced in six agro-ecological zones, which one grouped under sub-humid red soil Eastern ghat high land agro-ecoregion. Koraput, Phulbani Kalahandi, Ganjam and adjoining Keonjhar and Sundergarh districts have been effected by shifting cultivation involving 0.69 million families and 3 million ha land. Possibilities of improving shifting cultivation and alternate land-use for the region are presented in this paper.