Rice: a major Staple food for half of the world’s population The rice crop has the distinction of being the most extensively cultivated crop of India as well as of the world. The...
Women enshrine traditional paddy storage practices
Introduction In the northeastern part of India, particularly, in the State of Assam, paddy is grown throughout the year. It is stored at domestic level for a shorter period of...
Post harvest management
Most of the agricultural products, grown with great care, get spoiled, due to lack of appropriate post-harvest facility like transport, processing and storage. If the storage...
Indegenous post harvest management technologies
M.Natarajan and Santha Govind The hilly communities of Kalrayan hills in Tamil Nadu, India, have predominantly tribal population who depend largely on agriculture and livestock....
Indigenous practices of post harvest storage among tribal communities of central India
Hasrat Arjjumend Central India especially Madhya Pradesh, has a large ratio of tribal population, such as, Gond, Korku, Baiga, Bharia, Bhil, Bhilala and Saharia. In general, it...
Indigenous grain storage structures
In India, a large quantity of food grains is stored in villages in different traditional storages structures and containers. It is estimated that sixty to seventy percent of food...
