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Mizoram, one of the hill states of India, is an agrarian economy where majority of the population practice shifting or jhum cultivation since the time of their forefathers. With the changing requirements of the growing population, jhum cultivation became devastating in nature, causing drastic decline in crop yield, loss of forest wealth, soil fertility, and biodiversity. It also causes environmental degradation. The need to develop alternative and sustainable ...
Agriculture occupies animportant place in the economy of North-East India.More than half of the total workforce is engagedin it. A serious constraint for agricultural development is itsunfavourable topography and geographical isolation from mainland, India, which leadsto lack of communication infrastructures. This has reduced market access by the farmers for their produce.As such, the scenario of agriculture marketing in most of the states is generallyunorganised ...
