Probable agricultural biodiversity heritage sites in India: The Garo, Khasi and Jaintia Hills region

  • 01/04/2010

  • Asian Agri-History

The Garo, Khasi and Jaintia Hills region, with its unique landscape, climatic phenomenon of heavy cloud cover and torrential rainfall, and agricultural richness involving the majority of the population, has been proposed as another National Agricultural Biodiversity Heritage Site based on six indices. The region is very rich in floristic and agricultural biodiversity, because being part of one of the biodiversity hotspots, the Indo-Burma region, supporting cultivation of a large number of domesticated species using appropriate practices, innovated indigenously, facilitating harmonious interaction with the landscape.