Elephant Foot Yam – A Wonder Crop

In the current scenario, the whole food system is transforming towards more nutrition-based or immune system boosting foods, which must be rich in vitamin and minerals. Traditionally when we talk basic food system for human, we usually think around four basic food groups. In the context of Godda district of Jharkhand, the Tribal (Santhals) population is nearly 70% in a few blocks in which PRADAN works. The food consumption score is extremely low in the region, the diet is largely cereal based with negligible consumption of vegetables. Some of the study says, the ancient tribal food system includes varieties of forest foods like green leafy vegetables from various plants, varieties of mushrooms and tubers. Gradually, the food system has been pushed from traditional cereals, pulses, mushrooms, tubers to only rice in their food plates.

Ashisa Kumar Rath, Manish Pandey, Abhishek Kumar

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