Volume : IX, Issue : X, October - 2019

LAND USE PATTERN AND FOOD SECURITY OF STATELESS: PROFILE OF ARUNACHAL CHAKMAS

Jaison Varghese

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The paper illustrates the social survival indicators, which are conceptualized with socio–economic variables such as landholding and family level food security that contribute to the continued existence of Chakma settlers, the victim of development–induced displacement who had been ought to Northeast India from Bangladesh. The study focuses on the 12 settlement villages in Arunachal Pradesh state and covered 360 Chakma families. By practicing new plough mode of cultivation, they themselves adapted to the new situations and produce food crops for their daily consumption and also sell to the local markets. The landless and the households who do not have sufficient land for agriculture engage in share cropping with other Chakma families and local Arunachali tribal groups.

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LAND USE PATTERN AND FOOD SECURITY OF STATELESS: PROFILE OF ARUNACHAL CHAKMAS, Jaison Varghese INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-9 | Issue-10 | October-2019

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