scholarly journals Correction to: Exploitation of optical and SAR amplitude imagery for landslide identification: a case study from Sikkim, Northeast India

2021 ◽  
Vol 193 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thota Sivasankar ◽  
Swakangkha Ghosh ◽  
Mayank Joshi
Keyword(s):  
Northeast India

scholarly journals Farms or Forests? Understanding and Mapping Shifting Cultivation Using the Case Study of West Garo Hills, India

Land ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kurien ◽  
Lele ◽  
Nagendra
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
State Government ◽  
Shifting Cultivation ◽  
Northeast India ◽  
Tree Plantations ◽  
Old Growth Forest ◽  
Forest Survey ◽  
Garo Hills ◽  
Government Statistics

Attempts to study shifting cultivation landscapes are fundamentally impeded by the difficulty in mapping and distinguishing shifting cultivation, settled farms and forests. There are foundational challenges in defining shifting cultivation and its constituent land-covers and land-uses, conceptualizing a suitable mapping framework, and identifying consequent methodological specifications. Our objective is to present a rigorous methodological framework and mapping protocol, couple it with extensive fieldwork and use them to undertake a two-season Landsat image analysis to map the forest-agriculture frontier of West Garo Hills district, Meghalaya, in Northeast India. We achieve an overall accuracy of ~80% and find that shifting cultivation is the most extensive land-use, followed by tree plantations and old-growth forest confined to only a few locations. We have also found that commercial plantation extent is positively correlated with shortened fallow periods and high land-use intensities. Our findings are in sharp contrast to various official reports and studies, including from the Forest Survey of India, the Wastelands Atlas of India and state government statistics that show the landscape as primarily forested with only small fractions under shifting cultivation, a consequence of the lack of clear definitions and poor understanding of what constitutes shifting cultivation and forest. Our results call for an attentive revision of India’s official land-use mapping protocols, and have wider significance for remote sensing-based mapping in other shifting cultivation landscapes.

Nonfatal agricultural work-related injuries: A case study from Northeast India

Work ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 367-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thaneswer Patel ◽  
P.K. Pranav ◽  
M. Biswas
Keyword(s):  
Northeast India ◽  
Agricultural Work ◽  
Work Related

Mini-DNA barcode in identification of the ornamental fish: A case study from Northeast India

Gene ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 627 ◽  
pp. 248-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bishal Dhar ◽  
Sankar Kumar Ghosh
Keyword(s):  
Dna Barcode ◽  
Northeast India ◽  
Ornamental Fish

scholarly journals Eco-restoration of a high-sulphur coal mine overburden dumping site in northeast India: A case study

2009 ◽  
Vol 118 (5) ◽  
pp. 597-608 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Dowarah ◽  
H. P. Deka Boruah ◽  
J. Gogoi ◽  
N. Pathak ◽  
N. Saikia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Coal Mine ◽  
Northeast India ◽  
Dumping Site ◽  
High Sulphur Coal

scholarly journals Dietary use and conservation concern of edible wetland plants at indo-burma hotspot: a case study from northeast India

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 29 ◽  
Author(s):  
A Jain ◽  
M Sundriyal ◽  
S Roshnibala ◽  
R Kotoky ◽  
PB Kanjilal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Northeast India ◽  
Wetland Plants ◽  
Conservation Concern

scholarly journals The Different Existing Patterns of Landholding System that Determine the Mode of Agrarian Change: A Case Study of Tangkhul Nagas

2021 ◽  
pp. 36-49
Author(s):  
W. S. Machutmi
Keyword(s):  
Northeast India ◽  
Agrarian Change ◽  
Private Land ◽  
Tribal Communities ◽  
Agricultural Community ◽  
Ownership Of Land ◽  
Land Community ◽  
The Way

Abstract: This paper focuses on the way tribal communities conceptualised the importance of land, and the different type of landholding pattern system that has affected this agricultural community. There are various intricacies involved in defining the ownership of land: It includes who should own the land and to whom the land should be given out in the form of leasing out for a cultivation purpose? For example, the so called “clan land” should be confined to the clan not outside. This paper, therefore, is an attempt to look at various customs and rituals which have an influence upon the various kinds of landholding ownership system and to make a specific case study of Tangkhul Nagas, situated in the Ukhrul district of Manipur, Northeast India. Keywords: Agricultural community, private land, clan land, community land, modernity, Christianity

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document