Agrarian Structure and Transformation in Mizoram, North East India
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science - Year 2019, Vol 24, Issue 1
Abstract
Shifting Cultivation also known as Juhum cultivation has been livelihood options for tribal in North East India from the very first time that their existence is known. Shifting Cultivation is extensively practiced in the states of North Eastern region. Although it has been practiced widely it is understoodand categorised as one of the major challengesfor the development of tribal people in India. Henceforth, certain state governments have come up with a number of jhum control programmes to wean people away from the so called ecologically destructive practice of shifting cultivation and move towards settled cultivation. In the process of implementing these programmes there is a need to understand how far the switchover from shifting to settled cultivation happened and change the agrarian structure of the tribal. The present paper addresses these research questions with the help of field a survey using a pre-tested structured household interview schedule in two Mizo villages in Mizoram. The switch over from shifting cultivation to settled cultivation results in improvement of the living conditions of tribal households. Increase in the size of land holding, farm diversification and emergence of mono cropping have all resulted in enhancing the annual household income of the tribal.
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Dr C. Lalengzama
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