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Research & Reviews : Journal of Botany

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

  1. Jimi Banik
  2. Anupam Paul
  3. Sudipta Mukherjee
  4. Saikat Paul
  5. P. D. Ghosh
  6. 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 to determine clustering of TRVs based on why farmers prefer to cultivate them. The findings shall prove to be important in deciding priorities in conserving TRVs.Keywords: Criterion-based analysis, conservation, consumption-based values, non-consumption based values, value attributesCite this ArticleJimi Banik, Anupam Paul, Sudipta Mukherjee et al. Practicing Economy of Nature through Traditional Rice Variety Conservation: A Case Study from West Bengal, India. Research & Reviews: Journal of Botany. 2017; 6(3): 20–35p.
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