Bastar District Of Chhattisgarh Research Articles

Empowering Tribal Women Through Backyard Poultry in Bastar District of Chhattisgarh

Empowering Tribal Women Through Backyard Poultry in Bastar District of Chhattisgarh

Study on Information Accessibility and Utilization Pattern of Backyard Poultry Rearer in Chhattisgarh

The present study was conducted to assess the Information Accessibility and Utilization Pattern of tribal backyard poultry in Bastar district of Chhattisgarh. A multi-stage random sampling procedure was used to select 120 respondents i.e. 12 respondents per village, selected randomly from the two blocks i.e. Bakawand and Jagdalpur (five villages from each block) in the purposively selected area for the study. A structured interview schedule duly pre-tested and validated was used to elicit information from the respondents. Data collected were analyzed using statistical tools and the results showed that 47.50 percent poultry rearers had medium (6-12) level of interpersonal information utilization, followed by (42.50%) low (0-6) level and (10.00%) high (12-18) level. Whereas for mass media information utilization majority (78.33%) of the respondents had low (0-4) level, followed by (19.17%) medium (4-8) level and (2.50%) had high (12-18) level of information utilization pattern. The mean in case of interpersonal information utilization were 7.11 and mass media information utilization was 2.90. Due to the fact that the tribal backyard poultry rearers preferred to ask the local interpersonal sources regarding the various problems they used to face in poultry management.

Nutritional properties of minor millets: neglected cereals with potentials to combat malnutrition

Millet is a general term for a wide range of cereals. Minor millets are a group of grassy plants with short slender culm and small grains possessing remarkable ability to survive under adverse conditions like limited rainfall, poor soil fertility and land terrain. Minor millets categorized as coarse cereals are staple food for the tribal people where cultivation of major cereals like rice, wheat and maize is either not popular or fail to produce substantial yield1. Millets differ from one another by their appearances, and morphological features, maturity, grain type, etc. (Figure 1). India is considered as hub for these minor crops, according to the latest data, the world total production of millet grains at last count was 762,712 metric tonnes and the top producer was India with an annual production of 334,500 tonnes contributing 43.85% (ref. 2). In Bastar district of Chhattisgarh, which is one of the largest congregations of tribal population (67.4%), inhabitants mainly grow millets and form major component of their daily food consumption. In addition to be nutritionally rich, the advantage of growing minor millets is that it is a rainfed crop which forms part of a multi-cropping system, in the sense that it is mostly grown along with legumes and oilseeds3,4. On the darker side, these are underutilized and neglected crops owing to their lower preference driven by affluence, longer time and efforts involved in processing of the millets and the lower cooking quality. If these problems could be solved, their high nutritional value can make them doubly valuable as food for farming families and a potential source of income.

Price Spread of Minor Millets in Bastar District of Chhattisgarh

An attempt has been made in this study to examine the price spread of minor millets in Bastar district of Chhattisgarh. Four villages of Jagdalpur block namely Bhatagudai, Turenar, Kalcha and Kumhrawand were selected to collect the required information and the study was confined to three commercial minor millets namely Kodo, Kutki and Ragi. The data were collected for the crop year 2007–08. The total marketing cost paid by the retailers was 32.60 per quintal. The sale price of producer came to 395.00 and 400.00 in channel-I and channel-II respectively. Net price received by producer was being 400.00 in channel-II, which came to 74.90% to consumer price. Net margin received by the retailer was 101.40 per quintal i.e. 18.98% to consumer purchase price. The price paid by consumers for per quintal of minor millets products was calculated 534.00 in Channel-II. Producer's share in consumer rupee was 74.90% in Channel-II of the minor millets.

Economics analysis of minor millets in Bastar district of Chhattisgarh

Paddy is main crop of Chhattisgarh, however, millets are important food for sustaining tribal population in Bastar region of Chhattisgarh, India. Keeping in view of livelihood importance of minor millets for Bastar tribes, the present enquiry related to its production, marketing and processing was proposed to undertaken in Bastar district of Chhattisgarh. Out of total millets grower farmers, 10% farmers were selected randomly from four purposively selected villages namely Bhataguda, Turenar, Kalcha and Kumhrawand. The details enquiry was done in the year 2008 to 2009. The major findings of this study revealed that average cropping intensity was observed to be 103.36% in the study area, the average size of holding was 2.67 ha. On an average cost of cultivation per hectare of Kodo was calculated as Rs.2866.75, kutki Rs.2751.01 and ragi Rs.3342.10 per hectare, respectively. On an average, input-output ratio in Kodo, Kutki and Ragi was 1:1.33, 1:1.28 and 1:3.25, respectively. The total marketing cost paid by the retailers was Rs.32.60 per quintal. The sale price of producer came to Rs.395.00 and Rs.400.00 in channel-I and channel-II, respectively. The study suggested that it is essential to adopt the production system approach of linking the production technology and credit system in minor millets cultivation. There is no support price for procurement for minor millets, for the survival of these crops government must declare minimum support price. Key words: Minor millets, cost of cultivation, marketing, farmers.

English

Increasing number of patients suffering from enteric fever are being diagnosed in and around Bastar District of Chhattisgarh in last 5 years. Over 500 samples from febrile patients were cultured during May 2012 to January 2013 in a tertiary care hospital in Jagdalpur, Chhattisgarh. The aim of this study was to evaluate the ciprofloxacin and other antibiotics susceptibility patterns of Salmonella spp from blood samples of suspected enteric fever patients. Antimicrobial susceptibility tests were performed against commonly used antimicrobials by disc diffusion method and Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) of ciprofloxacin was determined by agar dilution method. Altogether 62 Salmonella Typhi and 21 Salmonella Paratyphi A were isolated from blood samples. All isolates were sensitive to ceftriaxone and ofloxacin whereas 9 isolates were resistant to ciprofloxacin. Nalidixic acid resistant isolates were significantly associated with raised MIC values for ciprofloxacin, suggesting that resistance to nalidixic acid is a reliable indicator of decreased ciprofloxacin susceptibility where disc diffusion test showed susceptible.