Selling of Tokay Gecko (Gecko gecko): A Money Making Business in Forest-Fringe area of Jalpaiguri District, West Bengal, India

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 979
Author(s):  
Chandan Datta
Keyword(s):  
West Bengal ◽  
Tokay Gecko ◽  
Fringe Area ◽  
Forest Fringe

scholarly journals Documentation of ethno-medicinal practices: A case study on tribal forest fringe dwellers of Terai West Bengal in India

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 822-827 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. N. Dey ◽  
S. Datta ◽  
Bani Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Plant Species ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Traditional Practices ◽  
Sustainable Utilization ◽  
Survey Period ◽  
Plant Resources ◽  
Fringe Communities ◽  
Indigenous Plant ◽  
Forest Fringe

The ethno-medicinal practices were documented which were being used by tribal population dwelling forest fringe areas of Terai zone of West Bengal, India on under exploited, non conventional, traditional and indigenous plant species for the sustainable utilization of these resources to cure day to day ailments. A total number of forty seven medicinal plant species belonging to 25 families were documented during the survey period 2012-13, which was used in curing many diseases. Among the families, Euphorbiaceae, Zingeberaceae and Leguminosae were the dominant families that represented four species each. Herb was the highest proportion of plant species 18 (38%) followed by 15 tree species (32%), 8 species of shrubs (17%) and rest were climbers and fern. It was observed that the tribal forest fringe communities of the Terai zone of the West Bengal have a good ethno-medicinal knowledge of using plant resources and developed their own traditional practices to cure day to day diseases.

Poverty Assessment for Reorienting Poverty Alleviation Programmes in the Forest Fringe Area of Madhya Pradesh, India

2021 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 214-236
Author(s):  
Ram Nayan Yadava ◽  
Bhaskar Sinha
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Madhya Pradesh ◽  
Deprivation Index ◽  
Poverty Index ◽  
Poverty Eradication ◽  
Poverty Assessment ◽  
Economy And Education ◽  
Fringe Area ◽  
Forest Fringe

The present study attempts to assess poverty using two commonly used indices namely Progress out of Poverty Index (PPI) and Progress out of Deprivation Index (PDI or DI) of 325 households, spread in twenty-nine villages of Hoshangabad and Mandla districts of Madhya Pradesh, India. The analysis of PPI and PDI scores showed that the poverty of a household/community decreases as their level of the economy, occupation and education improve, irrespective of their social class to which the household/community belongs. With this finding, it is recommended that prioritisation of the beneficiaries of programmes and policies related to poverty eradication in the forest fringe villages should not be based on caste or social class, but on household’s occupation, economy and education.

Malaria control in a forest fringe area of Assam, India: a pilot study

2011 ◽  
Vol 105 (6) ◽  
pp. 327-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Dutta ◽  
A.M. Khan ◽  
S.A. Khan ◽  
J. Borah ◽  
C.K. Sharma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Malaria Control ◽  
Fringe Area ◽  
Forest Fringe

An investigation on in vitro propagation of Colchicum luteum and its evaluation of colchicine for the economic benefit of rural people in West Bengal

Planta Medica ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 73 (09) ◽  
Author(s):  
M Gangopadhyay ◽  
R Bhattacharya ◽  
D Chakraborty ◽  
S Bhattacharya ◽  
A Mitra ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Benefit ◽  
In Vitro Propagation ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Rural People

Forecasting of Summer Monsoon Rainfall over Gangetic West Bengal, India Utilising Intrinsic Mode Functions, Linear and Neural Regression

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pijush Basak
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Monsoon Rainfall ◽  
Linear Part ◽  
Intrinsic Mode Functions ◽  
Quasi Biennial Oscillation ◽  
Nonlinear Part ◽  
South West ◽  
South West Monsoon ◽  
West Monsoon

The South West Monsoon rainfall data of the meteorological subdivision number 6 of India enclosing Gangetic West Bengal is shown to be decomposable into eight empirical time series, namely Intrinsic Mode Functions. This leads one to identify the first empirical mode as a nonlinear part and the remaining modes as the linear part of the data. The nonlinear part is modeled with the technique Neural Network based Generalized Regression Neural Network model technique whereas the linear part is sensibly modeled through simple regression method. The different Intrinsic modes as verified are well connected with relevant atmospheric features, namely, El Nino, Quasi-biennial Oscillation, Sunspot cycle and others. It is observed that the proposed model explains around 75% of inter annual variability (IAV) of the rainfall series of Gangetic West Bengal. The model is efficient in statistical forecasting of South West Monsoon rainfall in the region as verified from independent part of the real data. The statistical forecasts of SWM rainfall for GWB for the years 2012 and 2013 are108.71 cm and 126.21 cm respectively, where as corresponding to the actual rainfall of 93.19 cm 115.20 cm respectively which are within one standard deviation of mean rainfall.

Congress Defeat in West Bengal

1949 ◽  
Vol 18 (15) ◽  
pp. 178-179
Author(s):  
Richard L. Park
Keyword(s):  
West Bengal
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