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Jhum cultivation: Politics of governance in Northeast
Nagaland Post- Dice Foundation series | June 10 :
Jhum cultivation, an age old benign practice in the hills has never been so intensely subjected to agrarian research as in the later part of 20th century. It is a practice much loved and reviled at the same time. Who would have thought that what the hill communities in the Northeast (NE) and Bengal borderlands consider a way of life would be at the centre of academic debates.
Policy makers have always looked for ways to tame this practice citing several untenable reasons couched in scientific jargons. There are issues of reduced fallow periods in the present times and also the ill conceived (as in un-scientific) argument of jhum cultivation contributing to the deteriorating climate change catastrophe in the world.
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* This Post is uploaded on June 11, 2012
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