Adivasis on course to Revive Traditional Farm Practices

Dibyendu Chaudhuri, Parijat Ghosh . September 18, 2020

“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.”

Dibyendu Chaudhuri and Parijat Ghosh

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