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  Practicing Economy of Nature through Traditional Rice Variety Conservation: A Case Study from West Bengal, India

  By Jimi Banik, Anupam Paul, Sudipta Mukherjee, Saikat Paul, P. D. Ghosh, Neera Sen Sarkar

  Abstract: AbstractTraditional rice varieties (TRVs), continue to be cultivated defying the allurement of high-profits from cultivating high yielding varieties. The reasons why TRVs are still cultivated, withstanding extreme pressures leading to disappearance of many TRVs are interesting, especially for their associated non-market values. This study documents 50 TRVs being cultivated by farmers (n= 488) in three districts of West-Bengal, followed by a criterion-based analysis using UPGMA algorithm applied with Bray-Curtis similarity-index …

  Published in Research & Reviews : Journal of Botany · Vol. 6, Issue 3, 2017 · pp. 20–35 Read article →