scholarly journals Collective Action and Marketing of Underutilized Plant Species: The Case of Minor Millets in Kolli Hills, Tamil Nadu, India

2007 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Plant Species ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Kolli Hills ◽  
Minor Millets

The role of collective action in the marketing of underutilized plant species: Lessons from a case study on minor millets in South India

Food Policy ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillaume Gruère ◽  
Latha Nagarajan ◽  
E.D.I. Oliver King
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Plant Species ◽  
South India ◽  
Minor Millets

State spatial restructuring, subnational politics and emerging spaces of engagement for collective action: Labour regimes in Tamil Nadu, southern India

2016 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Vijayabaskar
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Economic Restructuring ◽  
Southern State ◽  
Shape Spaces ◽  
Cheap Labour ◽  
Democratic Polity ◽  
Spatial Restructuring ◽  
Transitioning Countries ◽  
Electoral Power

This paper contributes to the emerging literature on state rescaling by examining how processes of restructuring in late transitioning countries like India shape spaces of collective action for labour. India’s subnational States, which have become increasingly critical scales for shaping processes of economic restructuring, face competing governance imperatives. On one hand, they must offer a business-friendly environment, including cheap labour, in order to attract private investments. On the other hand, in a democratic polity, they are compelled to secure political power through electoral appeal to labour. Through a study of labour regimes in the southern State of Tamil Nadu, I argue that subnational governments have responded to this challenge by enabling a scale of labour governance that undermines labour’s ability to engage with new spaces of collective action opened up by reforms and globalization. Rather, the State subsidizes labour through welfare provisioning in their residential spaces even as it draws upon inter-State migrant labour that wields less electoral power.

scholarly journals Medicinal Plants from Vettangudi Water Bird Sanctuary in Sivagangai District of Tamil Nadu, Southern India

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-140
Author(s):  
S Shanmugam ◽  
C P Muthupandi ◽  
V M Eswaran ◽  
K Rajendran
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Plant Species ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Medicinal Uses ◽  
Traditional Medicines ◽  
Water Bird ◽  
Plant Parts ◽  
Healthcare Needs ◽  
The People ◽  
Exploitation And Utilization

Most of the people depending on traditional medicine to meet their primary healthcare needs. Documenting the indigenous knowledge through ethnobotanical studies is important for the conservation of biological resources as well as their sustainable utilization. It is also necessary to collect the information about the knowledge of traditional medicines before it is permanently lost. Having all these facts in mind, the present study was carried out to document the plants used as medicine by the people inhabiting around the Vettangudi Water Bird Sanctuary of Sivagangai district in Tamil Nadu, India. The field survey was conducted in two villages situated near to Vettangudi Water Bird Sanctuary. The medicinal uses of 40 angiospermic plant species belonging to 36 genera of 24 families for various diseases and ailments were recorded by this study. The people inhabiting in the study area used 45 herbal therapies prepared from 40 plants to treat 27 different illnesses. Regarding the plant parts used, leaf was the mostly used plant part (51.16%) and extract was found as mostly followed mode (42.28%) to treat a particular disease. Attention should be made on proper exploitation and utilization of these medicinally important plant species. Keywords: Medicinal plants, Vettangudi Water Bird Sanctuary, Sivagangai district, Tamil Nadu.

scholarly journals Records of the Palni Hills Rudraksha Tree Elaeocarpus blascoi (Oxalidales Elaeocarpaceae) in Palni Hills, Tamil Nadu, India

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 10623 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Stewart ◽  
Tanya Balcar
Keyword(s):  
Plant Species ◽  
Tree Species ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Partial Information ◽  
Mature Tree ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Western Ghats

Elaeocarpus blascoi is an endemic tree species reported only from the Palni Hills in the Western Ghats of Tamil Nadu.  It was described from one tree in 1972, and was thought to be extinct till 1999.  We had germinated an unidentified plant species in 1990, and this was later identified in 2001 as E. blascoi upon discovery of a mature tree in Vattakanal shola.  We describe here the discovery of the mature tree and two of our plantings that have survived over the past 20 years.  Our discovery and plantings have been written about in other publications but with partial information.  In this note we list out all our experience with this species to provide clarity. 

scholarly journals Angiosperms, climbing plants in tropical forests of southern Eastern Ghats, Tamil Nadu, India

Check List ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 092 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chellam Muthumperumal ◽  
Narayanaswamy Parthasarathy
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Forests ◽  
Plant Species ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Habitat Specialization ◽  
Eastern Ghats ◽  
Check List ◽  
Peninsular India ◽  
Woody Vines ◽  
Climbing Plants ◽  
Climbing Plant

We provide a check list of angiosperm climbing plant species, along with their climbing modes, enumerated from a total of one hundred and fifty grids in tropical forests of southern Eastern Ghats, peninsular India. The Eastern Ghats constitute an important biodiversity area in India and have been studied earlier mainly for the floristics, and that too confined to a few prioritized sites. Lianas, the woody vines contribute substantially to the diversity and structure of most tropical forests. Yet, little is known about the importance of habitat specialization in maintaining tropical liana diversity. A genera and 40 families are included in this enumeration.

A note on Ruellia nudiflora (Engelm. & A. Gray) Urb. (Acanthaceae), a naturalized species in Tamil Nadu, India

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-175
Author(s):  
Anantha M. ◽  
Mehala Ramasamy ◽  
C. Murugan
Keyword(s):  
Plant Species ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Short Description ◽  
Flora Of India ◽  
Colour Plate ◽  
Ruellia Nudiflora

Ruellia nudiflora (Engelm. & A. Gray) Urban, a member of Acanthaceae is reported from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu as an addition to the flora of India. A short description along with colour plate of plant species has been provided here.

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