Aravindakshan, Sreejith and Sherief, Aliyaru Kunju (2010):
Connotation of minor millet biodiversity and indirect payments
in tribal homesteads in the backdrop of climate change.
Published in: Proceedings of Indian Biodiversity Congress (IBC)
-2010, Thiruvananthapuram, India. (January 2011) Download
(532Kb) | Preview Unscathed agrobiodiversity remaining in-situ
today is found on the small-scale farms and homestead gardens of
poorer and developing countries (Brookfield, 2001). The
indigenous traditional farming of Muthuvan tribe as the case of
Finger millet or Ragi (Eleusine coracana), a minor millet
cultivated in the Western Ghats in Kerala in the Indian South is
one such classic example for in-situ agrobiodiversity
management, based on organic farming systems. On such fields,
the use of labour intensive, traditional production techniques
have persisted throughout the period of controlled state farming
and the market based large-scale farming. The homestead gardens
close to fringes of ‘South Western Ghats-the