Sl no.

Location

Community/ Ethnicity

Type of Knowledge

Sector

Existing or abandoned

Factors for abandonment/ restoration To solve the problem of low land and soil salinity.

References

Sundarban region, West Bengal

Multi Caste

Sundarban region, West Bengal

Multi Caste

Raised soil (Dhibi) Agriculture Cultivation: the whole area was divided into different parts and some points were selected based on certain distance in a systematic row and space manner. Then soils were dug from the main land and kept on predefined point and raised it up to a certain height based upon the local need to solve the problem of water stagnation and soil salinity in low land. Liquide Fertilizer: used Agriculture to make a solution of faeces and then spray it in the field. It increases the fertility of soil and enhances the crop growth.

Existing

Existing

To increase the fertility the soil and enhance the crop growth

Sarkar Sujit and R.N. Padaria : Understanding Indigenous Knowledge System in Coastal Ecosystem of West Bengal; Journal of Community Mobilization and Sustainable Development; January-June; 2011 Vol. 6(1), pp.-019024,

Sundarban region, West Bengal

Multi Caste

water solution of Neem plant: Farmer of Sunderban region made a water solution from the seed and leaves of Neem plant and applied on the surface of leave of the different crop as an organic insecticide to protect the crop from different insect attack

Agriculture

Existing

Sundarban region, West Bengal

Multi Caste

Muktapur, Jayantia Hill district, Meghalay a

Multi Ethnic

Washing of fog: The use Agriculture of fresh water in early morning and washed the fog stored on the plant. It solved the problem of curling of crops and also solves the problem of whitening of leaves Bamboo drip irrigation: Agriculture Used for irrigating crops in hill slopes. It is to convey water to the site of actual use without leakage and loss on the way.

Existing

The Spray of solution was very effective to control many pests like whitefly, phids, apanese beetles, moth larvae etc. So, the practice of applying Neem solution was a very useful method in the context of changing pattern of diseases due to climate change. To protect form fog for curling and whitening of leaves

Existng

This system do not resort to shifting cultivation and helps in conserving forests and natural resources.

Das et al. : Natural Resource Conservation Through Indigenous Farming System: Wishdome Alive in North East India: Indian journal of Traditional Knowledge, Vol. 11(3); July 2012; pp. 505-513

Kikruma of Phek district, Nagaland

Multi Ethnic

Zabo system: it is a Agriculture combination of forest, agriculture and animal husbandry practices with well founded soil and water conservation.

Existing

To protect the forest land and top of the hill.

Ralegan Siddhi
The watershed development programme has been implemented in an interactive manner in Ralegan Siddhi, Parner taluka, Ahmednagar district. The village lies in the drought prone area. An intensive watershed development work has been undertaken in the village. This work was taken up under Integrated Watershed Development Project in the village since 1975. The water conservation structures constructed were Percolation Tanks, Nala Bunding, Contour Bunding, K.T. weirs and Gabion structures. The impact assessment of watershed development programme was undertaken by Directorate of Irrigation Research Development (DIRD), Govt, of Maharashtra in 1989-92 indicated the positive effect of overall water resources availability and benefits to the activities/operations based on water resources utilization.