Land Use and its Transition in an Agro-Silvo-Pastoral System of a Ladkhi Village, Jammu & Kashmir, India

DOI HANDLE Open Access

Bibliographic Information

Other Title
  • ラダーク山地社会における農林牧複合の農業形態と土地利用の変容

Search this article

Abstract

Agriculture in mountainous regions has been described as a complex combination of crop farming, forestry, and animal husbandry, utilizing the diversified environment along with the altitude. Although such concept of verticality has formed the human landscape of mountainous regions, which has significantly transformed in recent years owing to socio-economic changes. This study examines the meaning of verticality in the current mountain societies based on a Ladakhi village in northern India, using detailed agrarian data and field maps. In the village, most young villagers have been migrating to urban areas to take off-farm jobs or pursue higher education, causing a labor shortage in the village's agriculture. Additionally, cheap food products are being imported from the lower plains as government rations, shifting the principal food from barley to rice and wheat. These changes have decreased the significance of barley cultivation and collapsed the complex altitudinal structure of agriculture. On the other hands, ecological factors such as verticality have persistently constrained the option of agrarian management, causing diversified agrarian forms in the various locations within the same watershed. In considering current socio-economic issues in the mountain villages such as poverty reduction and rural development, a focus on verticality is persistently necessary for understanding life in the mountain societies.

Journal

  • ヒマラヤ学誌

    ヒマラヤ学誌 14 102-113, 2013-03-20

    The Association for the Studies of Himalaya, Kyoto University ; Kyoto University Bhutan Friendship Program ; High-Altitude Project in Research Institute for Humanity and Nature

Related Projects

See more

Keywords

Details

  • CRID
    1390572174793404160
  • NII Article ID
    120005466246
  • NII Book ID
    AN10392447
  • DOI
    10.14989/hsm.14.102
  • HANDLE
    2433/186149
  • ISSN
    09148620
  • Text Lang
    ja
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
    • IRDB
    • CiNii Articles
    • KAKEN
  • Abstract License Flag
    Allowed

Report a problem

Back to top