BIDISHA Seminar tour' 2013

Returned from National Seminar on 'Changing Tribal Society In India : Issues and Challenges' on 7-8 December held at BIDISHA, West Midnapore, West Bengal. There I presented my paper on 'Indigenous Knowledge and Challenges for Endogenous Development: A Study on Customary Livelihood Strategies of a Sauria Paharia Village'

Nice environment there. Met several renowned anthropologists and academicians as well as young research scholars from different states.

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LIVELIHOOD SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE A CASE STUDY OF A SAURIYA PAHARIYA VILLAGE

LIVELIHOOD SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE

A CASE STUDY OF A SAURIYA PAHARIYA VILLAGE

Rudrajit Sarkar

In the context of globalization, there are lot of folk communities in India, still sustaining their livelihood by utilizing natural resources on sustainable basis. The means of their survival is not the goods and services produced by the ‘civilised’ counterparts but the knowledge they have gathered orally from their forefathers. Most development programmes ignored the importance of that eco-literate people in framing sustainable livelihood policies, and hence resulted into non-sustainable outcome. Therefore, indigenous people holding indigenous, local or traditional resource based knowledge are now being put immense importance. In this background this research has been carried out in a remote Sauriya Pahariya village of Pakur district of Jharkhand as a case study to understand the contextual reality of existing pattern of livelihood sustainability.




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My last dissertation work on Sauriya Pahariya tribe was submitted in Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University  for M.Sc. degree in ARTD in June, 2013.
However I am making making research papers on the work.

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Presently I am involved in my M.Sc. dissertation work probably headed under "Livelihood sustainability through Indigenous Knowledge- a case study of a Sauriya Pahariya  village".

I have chosen a very remote tribal location for this. Mostly interview method have been used in this. Dipankar Chatterjee sir is guide in this work. 

Project report on IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF SEED VILLAGE SCHEME IMPLEMENTED BY DIVYAYAN KRISHI VIGYAN KENDRA, MORABADI, RANCHI IN SOME VILLAGES OF JHARKHAND

Impact Assessment of Seed Village Scheme implemented by Divyayan Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Morabadi, Ranchi in some villages of Jharkhand

Rudrajit Sarkar

Integrated Rural & Tribal Development and Management (IRTDM)

Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University, Morabadi, Ranchi- 834008

E-mail: amirudras@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

Despite a far reaching demand of improved seed in household level, the formal seed sector has been incapable of providing good quality seed in a required amount and in a timely manner. So, there was a need of a comprehensive seed production programme in ground level which would ensure the full participation of farmers. Thus Seed Village Scheme was carried out with the objective of organising seed production cluster, increasing seed production, meeting local demand, increasing seed replacement rate as well as introduction of new crops.

Divyayan Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Morabadi, Ranchi initiated the Seed Village Scheme in 2006 in 16 villages of Jharkhand. In this context, present study has been carried out to assess the impact of this seed village scheme implemented by Divyayan KVK in four villages (Mahuatungri, Soba, Khakhra and Kharkutoli) of Angara and Burmu blocks of Ranchi District. The crops cultivated under the scheme were pea, frenchbean, cowpea, groundnut, ginger, elephant foot yam, cucumber and bottlegourd. Total cultivated land was covered for seed production purpose in 57.1 acre of farmers’ field of respective four villages. In this study it was observed that the seed production programme was terminated as the farmers refused to continue the programme due to severe drought in the year 2009 and 2010. Moreover, the hailstorm in the year 2006 and 2007 reduced the yield to a great extent in the villages of Burmu block. However, a positive change in the package of practices of the farmers was observed. Besides it seed production cluster of frenchbean, ginger and groundnut was observed to be developed. Lack of perception and motivation was also a major factor to reduce the seed production. The seeds were ultimately brought to the KVK where the seed processing unit was established and the TFL seed was named as Divya Seed. For the betterment of the scheme it is recommended that good irrigation structure should be constructed and a clear cut road map should be prepared to uplift the present situation of scientific storage and government seed certification.
https://www.academia.edu/8372253/Impact_Assessment_of_Seed_Village_Scheme_in_some_villages_of_Jharkhand