Team from Myanmar, Bangladesh and Nepal visits Senapati
Source: The Sangai Express
Senapati, February 23 2016:
A 13 member team of facilitators, Government employees, NGO workers, and free lance researchers from countries like Myanmar, Bangladesh and Nepal are in Senapati to learn from NERCORMP/IFAD sponsored project works on shifting/Jhum cultivation.
According to a source, the team comprises of 4 members from Bangladesh, 6 from Myanmar and 3 from Nepal who will give special focus on shifting/Jhum cultivation, its good practices and challenges faced and more particularly on the transitional period from shifting to settlement.
The team was in Afii and Makhel village on February 22 and in Bethel and Kharam Pallen village today.
The team visited and interacted with Afii and Makhel villagers on the ongoing work of NERCORMP in Senapati on shifting cultivation practices and water and soil management.
The villagers shared with the visiting team on how shifting/jhum cultivation practices have become a terraced/settled/permanent type of cultivation in their village in particular and the region in general.
The villagers shared the good practices and the challenges of jhum cultivation.
During the interaction, villagers shared the reason for slowing and stopping of
jhum cultivation practices.
Some of the important reasons included are poor harvest leading to insufficient food security, mass cutting of trees leading to shortage of fuel/fire wood, while semi terrace gives more yield.
The three team will head to NERCORMP head office tomorrow and continue to interact with other NERCORMP communities till Friday.