The Indian government is consistently trying to end Jhum cultivation in the North-East with “settled” cultivation by allocating funds, plants and providing support for the transformation. However, the ...

Jhum cultivation, also known as the slash and burn agriculture, is the process of growing crops by first clearing the land of trees and vegetation and burning them thereafter. The burnt soil contains ...

About 25,000 acres of forest land, including reserve forest, have been brought under jhum cultivation in the current season at eight upazilas in Khagrachhari in defiance of law. Jhum is a traditional ...

Jhum cultivation or shifting cultivation, practised in the hilly terrains of the northeast by clearing vegetation, is posing a big threat to the region as it is enhancing the possibility of landslides ...

Jamshedpur, Nov. 10: Even as tribes living in Singhbhum’s reserved forests, continue to erode green cover through traditional jhoom cultivation, forest authorities have decided to set up ...

Jhumiya people have continued to cultivate jhum crops on the slopes of hills, leading to environmental disasters in Khagrachhari. The local farmers, who cultivate jhum for hefty gains, are mostly ...

Aizwal, Mar 14 (PTI) Mizoram Governor Nirbhay Sharma today said that the flagship programme, the New Land Use Policy (NLUP), has increased rice production and reduced jhum cultivation in the state.

Indigenous farmers in the hilly district of Bandarban are passing a busy time harvesting the crop of Jhum cultivation. They are happy for the good yield this year. Local sources said, the favourable ...

Indigenous farmers in the hilly district of Bandarban are very spending a blissful and busy time at this time of year, as their traditional Jhum cultivation has brought robust yields this year. Jhum ...