Economic contribution of wild edible mushrooms to a forest fringe ethnic community in some eastern lateritic parts of India |
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| Authors: | Sumit Manna Anirban Roy |
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| Institution: | 1. West Bengal Biodiversity Board, Department of Environment, Government of West Bengal, Paribesh Bhawan, 10 A, LA Block, Sector-III, Salt Lake City, Kolkata, 700098, West Bengal, India
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| Abstract: | Dry deciduous forests of the eastern lateritic part of India are a typical case where forest valuation is yet to be integrated with the non-timber forest products like wild edible mushrooms (WEMs), which have a wide use in subsistence and cash income. A detailed accounting of the production and utilization of WEMs harvested from that region was made to highlight the economic worth of WEMs to the Santal community of this region. The WEMs production in the forest was in a polynomial pattern during the monsoon period. The net present value of revenues from WEMs was estimated to be contributing 9.83 and 10.29 % of total annual income of a Santal family of the Choupahari and Gonpur forests, respectively. The ecological footprint of the Santal communities on WEMs was higher in the forest area which was closer to the local markets than did the distant ones. Forest areas of the eastern lateritic part of India have a strong potentiality to produce WEMs that may be helpful for socio-economic upliftment of local tribal communities through the development of entrepreneurship and policy making. |
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