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Soligas and Yeravas tribals diet
January 25 , 2024
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- Indigenous groups Soligas and Yeravas have been living in the Cauvery Basin and the surrounding hills of peninsular India for thousands of years.
- Soligas, one of the oldest indigenous communities in the country, are the original inhabitants of Karnataka and live mostly in the Chamarajanagar and Mandya districts.
- The Yeravas, on the other hand, came to the state from Wayanad district in Kerala and settled in Kodagu district of the state.
- A recent book has looked into the diets of these communities.
- It is giving fresh insights into the foods that these two tribes forage from the forests.
- The foods that these two tribes forage from the forests.
- Such foods form around 25 per cent of the Soligas diet and around 30 percent of the Yerava diet.
- Honey is an important part of the diet for the Soliga people, who still forage large parts of their food from the biodiversity-rich Ghats.
- There are some 10-12 wild food plants that are unique to each community as they live in different landscapes.
- Mushrooms become part of the Yerava diet during monsoons, when they emerge overnight from barren land.
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