Nagaland takes measures to revive coffee farming
NNN/Dimapur16 Feb 2024
Coffee roasting machines programmes funded by the North Eastern Council (NEC) launched at the Directorate of Land Resources in Kohima.
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Poppy: The new destroyer
IFP Bureau19 Dec 2023
It takes only three months to harvest opium from the poppy fields. The issue of deforestation due to jhum cultivation has been debated enough. But now, the more pressing issue is of the devastation caused by poppy cultivation and its methods.
The bond with environment
IFP Bureau31 Oct 2023
The present land holding pattern in the hill areas of Manipur is one important factor impeding the growth of sustainable practices of agriculture and horticulture activities.
Global Warming: Tamenglong farmers giving up jhum cultivation amid rising heat
Daniel Kamei30 Jul 2023
Amid the changing climatic condition, most farmers in the district have given up the traditional jhum cultivation, their main source of livelihood, and shifted to daily wage work or even small farming.
Why water scarcity in Manipur?
RK Nimai24 Jan 2023
Cutting of forest for jhum and poppy plantation impacts the environment, allowing top soil erosion, etc but threatening to stop all forest fires is not justified, especially for jhum which has been in practice for centuries and is a lifestyle of our tribal brethren.
'Need to stop jhum cultivation to protect forest fire'
IFP Bureau21 Jan 2023
Manipur PCCF AK Joshi said jhum cultivation is one of the major causes of forest fire in the region and there is an urgent need to stop such destructive practices to control forest fires.
Illegal poppy cultivation to be replaced with high-quality crops in jhum areas: CM Biren
IFP Bureau29 Dec 2022
Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh chaired a review meeting on a project proposal of Horticulture and SC department for alternative to jhum in hill areas on Thursday.
Who said Jhumias are the villains?
IFP Bureau11 Feb 2021
IFP Editorial: Asking the hill people to do away with the practice of jhum cultivation is like asking them to give up their traditional lifestyle and culture.
A home for the holidays
IFP Bureau19 Jan 2021
IFP Editorial: While government ministers and experts shout from the mountain-top that the practice of jhum is leading to land degradation and soil erosion, nothing much have been done on the ground.
Farmers in hills bear the brunt of climate change
Tamenglong Correspondent31 Dec 2020
Several farmers in the hill district of Tamenglong lament that they could not burn up the cutting of their jhum fields as rainfall hit the region very early this year.
Jhum Cultivation – A relook at tradition and modern arguments
Mordecai Panmei13 Dec 2020
What is it about jhum cultivation that it has impacted the tribal Zeliangrong community in India? Mordecai Panmei throws light on the age-old traditional farming method
Logic of environmental sustainability
IFP Bureau4 Jun 2020
Jhum cultivation had been blamed for contributing to the deteriorating climate change in the world without taking into consideration how this method had immensely benefited the communities.
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