Mahua Flowers and Seeds: A Livelihood Strategy of Tribal’s in Mayurbhanj District of Odisha, India
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science - Year 2018, Vol 23, Issue 6
Abstract
Mayurbhanj is one of the tribal dominated districts of Odisha, which has been declared as the fully scheduled district of the state and its population is 56.67 percent of the total population of the district. The Santal, Kolha, Munda are the major tribe of this district. These tribes are generating their livelihood status based on collection of Minor Forest Produces (MFPs), like Sal leaf, Mahua flowers, fire-wood, weaving, and handicraft. The availability of Mahua tree for most covers of this district which provides livelihood security to the tribal’s in general. The products obtained from tree are consumed by these communities itself or sale in local and regional market. Tree having great spiritual, cultural, medicinal, and ornamental and multiple utility. The problems faced by the tribal’s are lack of access to forest product, inadequate market linkage of the product and exploitation by the Middleman. As consequences it has affected the pattern of livelihood among them and forced them to migrate in search of livelihood. The present paper attempts to investigate the livelihood strategy of the tribals through Madhuca Indica and the problems relating to the collection and selling of the product market
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Suvendu Kumar Satapathy
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