Factors contributing to the marginalization of shifting cultivation in north-east India: Micro-scale issues

Outlook on Agriculture

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 17-28

  Choudhury, Dhrupad ^a   Sundriyal, R C ^a  

^a GB Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development   (India)

Author keywords

Jhum practice; Marginal farmers; North east India; Policy options; Shifting cultivation; Tribal communities

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037356212     PISSN: 00307270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5367/000000003101294226     Document Type: Article

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