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New Agro Technology and Traditional Agricultural Knowledge: Some Anthropological Reflection from Tribal India Kumar Dhananjay* *Ph. D. Scholar, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela, Orissa, India Online published on 5 April, 2016. Abstract Since generation traditional knowledge of agriculture is used by human beings in varied agro-ecological zone. These specific traditional agricultural practices of specific agro-ecological zone and its imperativeness for the livelihood pattern get more vibrantly reflected in the agriculture sector of indigenous population of India. In worldview of tribal people, these traditional agro-practices comprises of all stages of agricultural operation and providing the sustainable view of agriculture. This is the reason for resilient nature of persistence of these practices till contemporary period. The agriculture practices and its relations with production is not separated as distinct entity from the other parts of socio-cultural life of the tribal population. It is the amalgamation of kinship, religion, ritual, ecological and other socio-economic cultural cosmos of life. This is the one side of the coin. The other side of the coin (that means knowledge practices in agriculture) is getting deep seated influence of modern agro-technological advancement in agricultural production process. There is one view which, gives the more importance to the traditional aspect of the agricultural production and also argues with new scientific discovery of rationale of using former. On the other hand, modern technocrats argue in favour of new agro-technology to raise the agricultural production as a method to face the food crises. In background of this dichotomy, taking some secondary sources and personal experiences into account, the present paper is an attempt for looking the contemporary interrelationship of traditional farming systems with modern agro-technological advancement in the major tribal agro-ecological zone of India. Top Keywords Indigenous agricultural practices, new agrotechnology, agroecology, indigenous population. Top | |
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