Transforming lives and landscapes: agroforestry practices in the tribal uplands of the Eastern Ghats.
Sumita Sindhi, Choudhury P. R.
Author Affiliation: SPWD, MIG-36, HB Colony, Sunabeda - 1, Orissa, India.
Wastelands News 18 : 24-33
Abstract : This paper discusses the traditional agroforestry practices of the tribal communities in the upland areas in Orissa and Andhra Pradesh, India which are grouped according to their temporal evolution, spatial location and topographic sequence, and components and management. Shifting cultivation and hedgerow intercropping are usually done in hills and hill slopes while homestead forestry ad biofence systems are common in sloping lands and flat plains. Agrisilviculture, on the other hand, is being practiced in both topographical locations. Also discussed are the different adopted systems which are classified into: upland regions with undulated topography (coffee-based agroforestry, cashew-based agroforestry, eucalyptus-based agroforestry, mango-based agroforestry and other single species dominant systems); and plains (bund plantation, coconut-based agroforestry, palmyra palm-based hortiagriculture and commercial agroforestry).