Basically it is to find development issures for tribal ares of madhya pradesh

1. Presentation on
Agriculture Development Issues in Tribal Area
Dr. N.K.khare
Professor & Head
Department of Extension Education
College of Agriculture, JNKVV, Jabalpur

2. Tribal District of Madhya Pradesh
Tribal districts -19
Tribal blocks - 89
Tribal population -122.33 lakh
Geographical Area-20.07%

3. Name of
tribe Sub-tribe Districts inhabited
Gond Pardhan, Agariya, Ojha, Nagar
chi, Solhas
All districts, mainly spread on both
banks of Narmada
River in Vindhyas and Satpura,
Balaghat.
Bhil
Barela, Bhilala, Patliya Dhar, Jhabua, East Nimar
Baiga Bijhwar, Narotia, Bharotiya, Na
har, Rai Bhaina,Kadh Bhaina
Mandla, Balaghat
Korku Movasiruma, Nahala, Vavari,
Bodoya
East Nimar,
Hoshangabad, Betul, Chhindwara,
Burhanpur
Bharia Bhumiya, Bhuihar, Pando Chhindwara, Jabalpur
Halba Halbi, Bastariya Balaghat
Kaul Rohiya, patel, Rauthail Rewa, Satna, Shahdol, Sidhi
Mariya Abujh Mariya, Dandami
Mariya, Metakoitur
Jabalpur, Mandla, Panna, Shahdol,
Chhindwara
Sahariya – Guna, Shivpuri, Morena, Gwalior,
Vidisha, Rajgarh
Major Tribes in Madhya Pradesh

4. Status of Agriculture
• Agriculture is the Primary occupation and source of
livelihood .
• Major and minor forest produce is the source of
their income.
• Production, Productivity and input efficiency shows
either marginal improvement or declining trend.
• Agriculture growth and technology adoption is low
leading slow growth/ progress.
• Enterprises based technology interventions and its
penetration is still challenging
• Prevailing crops productivity is very low.

5. Issues
• Migration of youth and women.
• Climate led traditional farming with advance technology.
• Limited marketable surplus and poor marketing link.
• Limited marketable surplus of produce.
• Limited reach of agriculture interventions & services.
• Improved technology acceptance and adoption is still
lacking.
• Community based organization functioning mechanisms
are not very effective.
• Inadequate institutional linkages.

6. Short Term Plan
• Improvements in cropping pattern to minimize the
climate and marketing risk.
• Strengthening credit delivery for improved and
profitable agriculture.
• Promoting SHG/FIGs/FPO and its functionalities.
• Up scaling the Custom hiring culture.
• Promotion of organic farming, green farming, goatary,
poultry (Kadaknath and colour Birds), lac cultivation,
sericulture, beekeeping, fisheries etc
Future Strategies

7. Medium Term Plan
• Educational measures i.e. soil water
conservation which serve environmental
causes.
• Market-led agriculture product based value
chain development.
• Social mobilization based agricultural
interventions.
• Price policy for promoting underutilized
crops.