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ADOPTION OF INDIGENOUS VIS-A-VIS IMPROVED RICE VARIETIES BY TRIBALS OF SURGUJA DISTRICT OF MADHYA PRADESH
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THE eastern part of Madhya Pradesh is divided into three agroclimatic zone, in which the Northern Hill zone is one of them. It is tribal dominated area and in Surguja district their population is 57 per cent. The main tribes of the district are PahariKorwa, Dehari Korwa, Manjhis, Manjhwar, Agaria, Pando and Uraon, etc. (Rajnish 1998). The literacy rate of the district is 23.81 per cent, where female literacy per cent is only 9.67, which is very low as c'ompared to male literacy i.e. 17.11 per cent.These tribes have small farm holding. About 53.6 per cent of holdings are less than 2 ha. and 81.2 per cent holding is less than 5 ha. Similar finding was reported by Jaiswal, 1998. the cropping pattern of the district is basically monocropped and nearly 89 per cent of the total cropped area is allocated under kharif crop of which rice alone constitute about 56 per cent (Anon. 1996).