Jhum Farming Is Being Disrupted In The Hills Due To Deficient Rains And Climate Change.

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Jhum cultivation in remote areas is also food donors like plains or rural farmers. Jhum farming is said to be one of the means of earning for the people of hilly areas of Tripura state. Jhum cultivation also known as shifting cultivation is an age-old agricultural practice by the ethnic tribal communities of uplands and it is still prevalent in the state. Jhum farmers, locally known as Jhumias. But Jhum farming is being disrupted in the hills due to deficient rains at the right time. So Jhumia families are worried about the possibility of facing food problems.

Jhumia families living in the vast area of Teliamura subdivision Hachuk Beram (Atharamura hills) could not cultivate the land due to deficient rains. Jhum seeds are sown the month of April-May (Bengali month of Baisakh) after cutting down the forest. However, most of the Jumia families could not sow seeds due to lack of rain and drought this year. Due to lack of rain in these two months of Baisakh-Jaistha, the Jhum crop is destroyed in the bud. In the meantime, those who sowed the seeds did not even grow in their land. And many Jhumia families could not sow seeds in the land set aside for Jhum cultivation due to deficient rains. And those who sowed the seeds also destroyed because of the drought in the land. A Jhumia family who has been cultivating Jhum for a long time said that he learned the method of Jhum cultivation from his parents. And following this method, for a long time, the family has been supporting all the sustenance depending on Jhum cultivation. Due to lack of rain this year, the crops are ruined. Now the farmers are worried about how much profit they will get by re-planting. Due to this situation, the Jhumia family demanded that the Government should help them to survive.