CENTRE FOR ECOLOGICAL SCIENCES INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE FIELD STATION, VIVEKNAGAR, KUMTA 581 343, INDIA Telephone: 91-08386-223426, 09342470560(Dr.Prakash Mesta) E Mail: cestvr@ces.iisc.ernet.in, mdschandra@yahoo.com, prakashhonavar@gmail.com Web URL : http:// ces.iisc.ernet.in/energy/

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Dr. T. V. Ramachandra/Dr. m. d. subash chandran                                                            CES/TVR/CCP/100504/2016

“MY VILLAGE BIODIVERSITY DOCUMENTATION”

Instruction to Participants

Completed study reports to be sent to:

Dr. M.D. Subash Chandran
CES, Field Station (Indian Institute of Science)
Siddana Bavi Raod, Gandhi Nagar, Kumta-581 343

For more information contact:

 Dr. Prakash Mesta
Phone: 08386 223426, Mobile: 9342470560
e-mail: prakashhonavar@gmail.com, prakash_honavar@ces.iisc.ernet.in

Energy and Wetland Reserch Group
Centre For Ecological Sciences
Indian Institute of Science, Banglore-12
E-Mail: cestvr@ces.iisc.ernet.in
Phone: 080-22933099; 23600985

MY VILLAGE BIODIVERSITY DOCUMENTATION FORMAT

(Note: Village means revenue village)

* Note:  1. Only one or two students to study one village
              2. Use extra sheets for writing if necessary

1. Forest types of village

2. Landscape elements of the village

* Use extra sheets for writing if necessary

*Use extra sheets for writing if necessary

A) Medicinal plants
i) Medicinal plants of the village and utilisation of plants by village people

*Use extra sheets for writing if necessary
    ii) Medicinal plants collection and trade
     List medicinal plants that are grown by villagers in their own gardens/farms for sale

*Use extra sheets for writing if necessary

    iii) List of medicinal plants collected from the village/forest for sale

*Use extra sheets for writing if necessary
B) Uses of non-cultivated plants for food

*Use extra sheets for writing if necessary
C) Non-cultivated  plants that are used for other purposes than food

*Use extra sheets for writing if necessary
D) Rare types of forest trees present in the village

*Use extra sheets for writing if necessary

E) Road side trees
List planted roadsid trees by surveying one km of village main road

*Use extra sheets for writing if necessary

F) Forest  products
i) Collection of forest produce
    (Interview persons who collect forest produce; list the products that are regularly collected from the forests)

*Use extra sheets for writing if necessary

ii) Do contractors collect forest produce (name products collected)

*Use extra sheets for writing if necessary

iii) Do local societies collect forest produce
(name society,  products collected etc. – Attach details from Societies’ annual report)

*Use extra sheets for writing if necessary

G) Agriculture

  i) Names of crop plants and their varieties
(Note: Please note down varieties of rice, sugarcane, ragi, jowar, other millets,  black gram (uddu), pacha hesaru  (green gram), cow pea (alsandi); ground nut (senga), etc.)
 

*Use extra sheets for writing if necessary

ii) Special characters of crop varieties (please give importance to traditional varieties)
Note: Special characters: Please note down special characters as explained by the farmer. For eg: Crop name :Rice;  Variety name: Bantwala: Special characters: 3.5 months duration, tall (5 ft); red rice, yield approx. 8quintals/acre; tasty; soft straw liked by cattle – Please ask farmer to describe the varieties.

*Use extra sheets for writing if necessary

iii) Traditional storage methods of agricultural products
(Explain what are the important methods of storage of foodgrains and pulses etc. without damage or insect attack.)

*Use extra sheets for writing if necessary

iv) Model agriculturists in the village

*Use extra sheets for writing if necessary

v) Seed treatment

*Use extra sheets for writing if necessary

H) Horticulture

i) Horticultural crop and their varieties
(Note: Please note down varieties of coconut, arecanut, pepper, betel leaf, mango, jack fruit, banana, citrus, vegetables, leafy vegetables, chillies, local flowers, kokam, onions, tubers, ginger, cardamom) 
 

* Please use extra sheets
ii) Special characters of horticultural crop varieties
Note: Please note down special characters as explained by the farmer

*Use extra sheets for writing if necessary
iii) Traditional methods of processing and storage of horticultural products

(Explain what are the important methods of processing and storage of horticultural products without damage or insect attack.).

*Use extra sheets for writing if necessary

iv) Information about home gardens for growing vegetables
(collect information form a cluster of ten families – poor and rich and representing different communities)

v) Model horticulturists in the village

*Use extra sheets for writing if necessary

vi) Fruit trees grown in the school campus

*Use extra sheets for writing if necessary

vii) Methods for ripening of fruits

*Use extra sheets for writing if necessary

viii) Fruits storage/preservation/ processing methods (making pickles, jams, drying, salting etc)

*Use extra sheets for writing if necessary

I) Model Farms

1. Write names of the farmers who have model farms. Model farms combine many of the following features described under a/b/c/d etc. (√ whatever is applicable).

1. Water conservation methods adopted
2. Soil conservation methods adopted
3. Animal husbandry is part of the system
4. Bee keeping is part of system
5. Gobar gas is used
6. Vermi-compost is made
7. Preparation of bio-pesticides; pesticides are not used for rice crops and vegetables
8. Solar lamps; solar drier; improved stoves like Astra Ole
9. Bettaland has more than 100 trees per acre; trees belong to at least 15 species/acre; at least 40 trees per acre are not lopped for leaves or branches cut for fuel.
10. No fuelwood is purchased from outside
11. No fulewood is collected from forest
12. Crop rotation is practiced in rice fields (mention what crops are grown after rice is harvested)
13. List fodder crops grown in the farm (including grasses, shrubs and trees)
14. At least one traditional rice variety is grown (mention name:……………..)
15. Poultry is part of farming system
16. Fish farming is part of the system (name fishes in the pond………………..)

J) Village environment management
  i) People’s participation in environment management

1. List names of farmers who do fully organic farming

 (without use of chemical pesticides and fertilizers) for any crops

*Use extra sheets for writing if necessary
iii)  List farmers who use biopesticides

*Use extra sheets for writing if necessary

iv) What biopesticides are used by you?

*Use extra sheets for writing if necessary

v) Manuring/application of fertilizers

vi) Name chemical pesticides/fungicides used

5. COOPERATIVE

 i) Cooperative Societies
Notes on tribal co-operatives in the village/panchayat (eg. Siddi co-operative society for forest produce collection) , Notes on other co-operative societies in the village

*Use extra sheets for writing if necessary
ii) Name Self Help Groups/Sthree-Shakti groups in the village and list their activities

*Use extra sheets for writing if necessary

6. COMMUNITY HEALTH

Visit a cluster of ten families representing different communities and list the health problems

*Use extra sheets for writing if necessary

7) Animal diversity

A) Wild Life

*Use extra sheets for writing if necessary

B) Knowledge on wild animals

Note:

• Seasons present : Rainy season, cold season, summer season or throughout the year
• Where present: Habitat to be mentioned such as forest, scrub, field, garden, river bank, river, pond etc

C) Crop damage from wild life
Interview farmers on what damages are done to crops by wild animals in the village (write names of farmers interviewed and details of animals which create problem and the extent of damages they suffer)

*Use extra sheets for writing if necessary

D) Attack on humans by wild animals
Any details on attack on humans by wild animals (including snake bites, attack on domestic animals) may be mentioned – number of cases during the last two years
 

*Use extra sheets for writing if necessary

E) Write the names of plants that wild animals/birds feed upon

F) Name wild animals that seasonally visit the village

G) Hunting

•  Do people hunt in the village or outside?  :  yes/no

• Which communities customarily hunt?

 _________________________________________________
 

•  What are the animals/birds normally hunted within village?

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•  What are the names of animals/birds hunted from outside the village?

  _________________________________________________
 

•  How far do the hunters go for hunting? Name places and distances from the village you are surveying

 _________________________________________________

• Do outsiders enter the village for hunting?

• From where do outsiders come for hunting?

   _________________________________________________

•  Why do people hunt?

    _________________________________________________
 

9.  For food (mention names of animals/birds)

  _________________________________________________
 

• For medicine (mention animals/birds)

  _________________________________________________

• For sale of meat/other products (mention animals/birds)

  _________________________________________________

•  As part of their hunting tradition – hunting is compulsory for the community (mention names of communities which perform traditional hunting)

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•  What are the restrictions on hunting followed by local people themselves?

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H) Livestock

1. INFORMATION ON CATTLE, GOATS AND SHEEP OF THE VILLAGE

• Cattle census : Attach livestock statistics of the village as available from the Panchayat veterinary officer or other sources (mention the sources) and year of statistics (include cattle, buffloe,oat, sheep nos.)

2.     Interview some families on cattle nos and fill the following tables

*Use extra sheets for writing if necessary

2. Interview some families on buffalo nos and fill the following table

*Use extra sheets for writing if necessary

3.  Interview some families and fill the table on Goats diversity

4.  Interview some families and fill the table on sheep diversity

5. Details regarding Poultry farmers

6.  Fodder availability

7.  Do you sell grass and straw- if so answer the following

8.  The places from where straw/grass is purchased from outside (include in the study also small farmers and landless having cattle)

1. Milk production (include in the study small farmers and landless also; conduct as many interviews)

2. Milk processing/marketing (tick whatever is applicable)

3. Production of cattle dung

4. Uses of cattle dung (how much dung used daily for gobar gas)

5. Problems faced by cattle keepers

          (Write the names of persons interviewed and list their problems)
    _________________________________________________
    _________________________________________________

6. What are the needs/recommendations of cattle keepers regarding fodder, milk marketing, gobar gas etc. (Write names of persons interviewed and state their recommendations)

    _________________________________________________
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I)Honey production

1. Honey production from the forest

*Use extra sheets for writing if necessary

2. Honey production by apiculture

3.  List types of honey available in the village (soapnut honey, mango honey etc.) (List names of persons who provides the information)

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4. What are the plants which are very useful for increasing honey production? (List names of persons who provides the information)

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5. What are your recommendations for increasing honey production in the village? (List names of persons who provides the recommendations)

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6. List people who received training in honey production and processing? (add note on who gave training)

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7. What are the medicinal uses of honey?

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8) Energy sources

A) Availability and uses of plant fuel

B) Recommendations by plant fuel users
(Name some users and write their recommendations)

C) List names of Astra-ole/improved cook stoves (not gas stoves) users in the village

D) List names of people using solar lighting (try to get complete information on all users)

E) List names and addresses of people using solar water heaters
(try to get complete information on all users)

F) No. of families having cooking gas in the village (LPG)
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G) Names and addresses of people using power from micro-hydel
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9) Knowledgeable  individuals (people with traditional knowledge)

Note: Village may have several people having knowledge in herbal medicines (naativaidyaru), special knowledge in agriculture, in preparation of bio-pesticides, grafting plants like mangoes, identification of plants and animals etc.

*Use extra sheets for writing if necessary

10) Details on artisans of the village
(give details of people in carpentry, blacksmiths, ornaments making, wood carving, stone carving, pot making,  shoe making, making of idols such as Ganapati using soil etc.)

*Use extra sheets for writing if necessary

11) Details on fishing communities
Note: Interview five fishermen in the  village

*Use extra sheets for writing if necessary

12) DETAILS ON SACRED FORESTS OF THE VILLAGE
(provide details on natural areas of worship such as jatakabana, hulidevarakanu, chowdibana, kapribana etc. or others)

Note: A sacred forest should have minimum five trees
*Water sources: If water sources such as springs, streams, ponds, wells etc if any in or near the sacred groves

*Use extra sheets for writing if necessary

13) Make a list some wild plants in the devarakadu

*Use extra sheets for writing if necessary

14) Make a list of animal diversity of devarakadu

*Use extra sheets for writing if necessary

15)  VILLAGE STATISTICS (collect details from village accountant’s office from Adarshatakta) – attach separate sheet

16) Village Map (collect details from village accountant’s office from Adarshatakta) – attach sheet
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