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| Title: | Phytoresources from North Cachar Hills of Assam-III : Edible plants sold at Haflong market |
| Authors: | Medhi, P
Borthakur, S K |
| Keywords: | Edible plants
Folk women
Haflong market
North Cachar Hills
Phytoresources
Semi-domesticated plants
Tribes |
| Issue Date: | Mar-2012 |
| Publisher: | NISCAIR-CSIR, India |
| IPC Code: | Int. cl. (2011.01)- A61K 36/00, A23L 1/00, A23L 1/052, A23L 1/22 |
| Abstract: | The hilly town
Haflong is located at the foothill of Borail range at the elevation of 936.04 m above msl and
between 25° 11’ N latitude and 93° 11’ E longitude. The present
paper deals with the extensive collection and study (during October 2007 to
January 2009) of the edible phytoresources sold mostly by the folk women in
weekly market at Haflong. Emphasis was mainly given to wild as well as
landraces and local cultivars of the crop plants. The study provides
information on their botanical name, family, vernacular names, frequency,
habit, biological status, plant parts used, mode of use and also market rate of
the plant resources observed. Study reveals that out of 254 plants/local cultivars collected and identified belongs to 170
genera and 75 families. Biological status analysis recorded as: primitive
cultvar/jhum cultivar/cultivar (151), semi-wild/semi-domesticated (49), wild
(45) and weed
(09) species/varieties of plants. A total of 49 edible species have also been
recorded to be domesticated from the
study area.
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| Page(s): | 84-109 |
| CC License: |  CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India |
| ISSN: | 0976-0512 (Online); 0976-0504 (Print) |
| Source: | IJNPR Vol.3(1) [March 2012]
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