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A note on indigenous technical knowledge in Kinnaur and Lahaul-Spiti districts of Himachal Pradesh

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Title A note on indigenous technical knowledge in Kinnaur and Lahaul-Spiti districts of Himachal Pradesh
 
Creator Swangla, S
Sangeetha, V
Singh, P
Burman, R R
Satyapriya
Venkatesh, P
Bhowmick, A
Singh, T
 
Subject ITKs
Traditional knowledge
Tribal areas
 
Description 520-531
Over the years, Indian farmers have leveraged their ancestral know-how and experimented to cultivate different crops in difficult environmental conditions. Of late, however, traditional knowledge and practices have suffered massive erosion, mainly due to the impact of globalization and modernization. In this regard, the objective of the present paper was to document and validate the Indigenous Technical Knowledge (ITKs) in the tribal farming system in Himachal Pradesh. Kinnaur and Lahaul-Spiti districts of Himachal Pradesh were purposively selected for the study owing to their special status of Scheduled Tribal Area. Further, three villages from each district were selected randomly covering a sample of 120 farmers. In addition, 5 key informants experienced in particular ITKs were selected from each village for its validation through Quantification of Indigenous Knowledge (QuIK) methodology. The major documented ITKs were classified into appropriate categories such as soil and water management, cropping system, farm implements, post-harvest technology, storage, horticultural crops, food product development, agro-animal based yarns and leaves, medicinal, veterinary science, animal husbandry, and some myths. Further, Kothar, Graat, Suttar, tying of branches of trees, and chicha were revealed as the most useful ITKs in the tribal areas of Kinnaur. In Lahaul-Spiti, Khudh, Sumbhu, Sem, and shaving off of yak’s hair in summer were the most popular ITKs.
 
Date 2021-05-27T05:00:42Z
2021-05-27T05:00:42Z
2021-04
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1068 (Online); 0972-5938 (Print)
http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/57196
 
Language en_US
 
Relation Int. Cl.21: A61K 38/00, G06N 5/02, B05B 12/22
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJTK Vol.20(2) [April 2021]