Sustainable Agriculture
IPlant diversity is essential for sustainable agriculture, particularly in the fight against climate change. Its benefits go far beyond aesthetics, playing a crucial role in carbon sequestration and soil health.…
Analyze, Not Demonize, Jhum Cultivation
The age-old practice of shifting cultivation, also known as ‘Jhum’, has been a cornerstone of indigenous Naga communities. While often criticized as a “destructive” agricultural method, it is imperative to…
Celebrating Coffee Success, While Nurturing Tradition
The news of Nagaland’s resurgent coffee industry fills us with optimism. The government’s ambitious plan to blanket 50,000 hectares with coffee cultivation by 2030 is a commendable bid to empower…
Harvesting Legacy: Seed preservation and storage among the Ao and Sümi Naga | Rongsenzulu Jamir, Alino Sumi – Down To Earth
In the early 1920s, a famine gripped Longkong village in eastern Nagaland. The farmers of this village, inhabited by the Ao Naga community, were unable to cultivate any crop one…
Divisional Management Unit Inspects Progress at Nagaland Forest Management Project’s Plantation Sites in Mokokchung District
Mokokchung, 19 September (MTNews): The Divisional Management Unit (DMU) of Mokokchung Forest Division of the Nagaland Forest Management Project (NFMP), an externally aided project assisted by the Japan International Cooperation…
Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio emphasizes need to document food habits and cuisines of Nagas
Kohima, 6 September (MTNews): Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio emphasized on the need to document the rich food habits and cuisines of the Nagas. Inaugurating the first Jhum Fair cum…
Demonizing jhum cultivation is passé
For many decades now, the state government and its agencies have been campaigning against shifting or jhum cultivation in Nagaland, so much so that the traditional agricultural practice that sustained…
Aosenden village resumes jhum cultivation peacefully
Following the administration’s intervention on the Assam-Nagaland border tension in Tzurangkong as previously reported in this newspaper on 18 March, the Aosenden Village Council Chairman stated that the villagers have…