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The diversity profile of pepper and banana based high range home gardens

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Title The diversity profile of pepper and banana based high range home gardens
 
Creator M, Nithish Babu
Thomas, Allan
Venu, Lenin Q
 
Subject Biodiversity
Food security
High range
Homesteads
Livelihood
Nutritional security
Shannon–Weiner index
 
Description 307-313
Kerala, renowned for its rich biodiversity, is endowed with home garden based agroecosystems which act as a reservoir
to satisfy the escalating food, nutritional and economic demands of the people. The home gardens on the high range area are
of typical, with complex biodiversity profile, peculiar ecological and edaphic factors. In this context, the overriding
objective of the present study was to identify and analyze the diversity profile of the high range home gardens and also to
compare the species diversity of different crop based home gardens in the high range area. The results of diversity index
using Shannon and Weaners diversity index revealed that the total diversity (H’t) of the home garden was high (H’t=4.443
and H’t=5.907) in ‘pepper and banana’-based home gardens respectively, however the mean total biodiversity index (H’m)
that could be considered as the real measure of biodiversity was (H’m=1.481 and H’m=1.969) which indicated that high
range home gardens that was once considered to mimic the forest ecosystems with high biodiversity, is now attributing
declining trends in diversity profile. However, the crop abundance profile disclosed that the high-value crops viz., spices and
plantation crops dominated the home gardens of high range areas which subjugated the diversity of vegetables and tubers
which act as the pillars of food security.
 
Date 2023-06-28T12:16:25Z
2023-06-28T12:16:25Z
2023-06
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1068 (Online); 0972-5938 (Print)
http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/62185
https://doi.org/10.56042/ijtk.v22i2.35892
 
Language en
 
Relation Int Cl.23: A61K 36/67, A01H6/82
 
Publisher NIScPR-CSIR,India
 
Source IJTK Vol.22(2) [April 2023]