INDIGENOUS TRIBAL FARMERS AWARDED

The Jhabua district (MP) a predominantly inhabitated by the poorest, deprived, indigenous tribals of India called Bhils. The district has one of the most ancient indigenous tribals or Adivasi communities of India. Their main profession is agriculture of traditional type, solely depending on the irregular rains. The rains too fail more regularly than the availability of Central and state Government funds in Madhya Pradesh. Last year there was extremely access rain and this current year much less. In the both extreme situations the tribals regularly and punctually migrate due to the non availability of Government relief funds which does not give them even partial relief but it goes to some others. In these cases 60% to 70 % of the famine and drought affected Bhils regularly migrate to the nearing states for most parts of the yea, proving the tribal Bhils were self-supporting and self-sufficient indigenous tribal communities who did not depend ever since the droughts and famines began to haunt them for nearly last 30 years.

In such a deprived conditions the two farmers were awarded for risking their efforts and money, who proved to be advantageous from their infertile and unirrigatable land. Raphael Bhuriya (59) from the Mohankot village from Petlawad tehsil of the district for mixed cultivation that is with cultivation horticulture for which the district Collector Jagdish Sharma IAS awarded Rs 10,000=00(ten thousands) and a similar amount was awarded to Maria Damor who is a simple and uneducated housewife of Navapada village (Panchkui) for developing and using Gobar Gas Plant(cow dung pit) for cooking, light and manure for healthy life and cultivation compared to chemical fertilisers. Maria ia a member of a Self-help group(SHG) of her village, guided by a well reputed and dedicated social service society called PRAGATI based in the Bhil region of Jhabua and its surroundings.

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