Duhumbi Agricultural Practices - Description, Audio, Video, Photos

This collection of videos, audio and photo files displays Duhumbi agricultural practices as they were conducted between 2012 and 2017. Accompanying video and picture files illustrating the text files can be found at the end of this document.

Traditionally, the people of the Chug valley depended on a mix of agriculture and animal husbandry for their livelihoods, supplemented by hunting and collection of forest produce. The Chug valley and the Sangthi valley are the only places in West Kameng district where relatively large-scale wetland rice cultivation takes place. This rice has for long been the main item in the barter trade, as well as the main item collected as tax by the erstwhile Tibetan administration and raided by the Miji.

Agriculture has always been the main-stay of the local economy, not just in terms of self-sufficiency, but also in terms of barter trade. The agricultural produce, mainly the rice, was bartered for other food and other items, a practice that, despite increasing monetisation of the economic system, continues till date.

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