Those from the community living in the hilly terrain and forest areas have their houses and farmlands at a distance from another person’s house and farmland
Surat: The proximity of houses and intermingling of people in small towns and big cities have shot up Covid-19 cases in major parts of the state. However, several tribal pockets in the tribal belt of the state are still protected from the alarming situation despite the lack of medical infrastructure that the cities have.
Dang located at the southern tip has the least number of cases in Gujarat at 524, as on Tuesday. Remote pockets in Narmada and Chhota Udepur districts too are not the contributors of the cases in the district. Administrators and social scientists say that several sub-communities within the tribal population have a certain lifestyle wherein they traditionally keep distance from each other.
Vadodara: Indigo from exploitation to revolution has coloured the pages of Indian history down the ages, especially during the British India rule. The plant’s been tillers’ boon and bane, and yet its deep blue shade has never faded from generations’ imagination.
While then its forceful plantation led Mahatma to launch his first satyagraha in Bihar, the same plant is now helping tribal peasants in Chhota Udepur colour their affluent dreams.
The Adivasi Academy in Chhota Udepur will launch a project of training the locals in indigo cultivation and extracting blue dye after its two-year-long experiment of cultivation and extraction turned successful. Indigo grows wildly in the forest areas in the district, but the locals have never tapped its use beyond traditional medicinal purposes.
Indigo was introduced to Europe from India by sailors and traders from different countries.
VADODARA: Indigo from exploitation to revolution has coloured the pages of Indian history down the ages, especially during the British India rule. The plant’s been tillers’ boon and bane, and yet its deep blue shade has never faded from generations’ imagination.
While then its forceful plantation led Mahatma to launch his first satyagraha in Bihar, the same plant is now helping tribal peasants in Chhota Udepur colour their affluent dreams.
The Adivasi Academy in Chhota Udepur will launch a project of training the locals in indigo cultivation and extracting blue dye after its two-year-long experiment of cultivation and extraction turned successful. Indigo grows wildly in the forest areas in the district, but the locals have never tapped its use beyond traditional medicinal purposes.