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Pahariya Tribes
April 26 , 2024
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- In mid-2019, four community-led seed banks were set up in the hilly districts of Pakur and Godda.
- Earlier they bought seeds from moneylenders, who would then take two-thirds of our harvest.
- Currently, the banks cater to more than 1,350 households in 90 villages.
- Residents in these districts belong to the Pahariya community.
- They practise jhum or shifting cultivation that involves clearing land by burning vegetation for farming for a few years.
- They believed to have been derived from the word pahar meaning hills.
- They live mainly in the states of Jharkhand and West Bengal.
- There are also scattered groups of them in Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Odisha.
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