Keystone Foundation Archives

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• The Land Development Initiative of Keystone Foundation – The Nilgiris
• Millet initiatives: Traditional Millet farming in Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve
  This is a research paper that delves into the techniques of millet agriculture in Melseemai or Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve area amongst the Irula community. Araganai is the traditional method of splitting millet plants in order to improve yields. The tools and implements needed for Ragi and Samai cultivation are described here including the associated botanical species needed to craft these.
• SANFEC Land Use Study, 2006 - Study of Economics of Ecological Agriculture: A Study of 4 types of land use with Adivasi communities in the Nilgiris, Western Ghats, India
  A detailed study and mapping of the traditional agricultural and agroecology of the Kurumba and Irula communities. Detailed surveys of mixed cropping patterns and systems, organic inputs used in such ecological agriculture, and its effect on soil health and biodiversity was undertaken for this analysis. The varieties of crops in an intercropping or mixed cropping system has been listed here including the uncultivated food plant varieties and the biodiversity it supports was catalogued during the research.
• Kurumba and Irula (India - World Food - Communities)
  The story of two indigenous communities that live in the Nilgiris