The Kaibartas: A Fishing Community of Assam, Their Society and Economy

Sarma, Chandana; Ali, Asgari

doi:10.1080/09709274.2005.11905782

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“…It is worth mentioning that Schedule Caste people, primarily the "Kaibartta" are one of the main fishermen communities in the state comprising 31.8 per cent of the total Scheduled Caste population [8]. Most of the Kaibartta people are now engaged in different livelihood activities, primarily cultivation and fishing have been taken over mostly by the immigrant Muslim people in the state [15]. The Schedule Caste people living in rural areas culture fish for domestic consumption.…”

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Promotion of Fish Production and Doubling Farmer’s Income among Scheduled Caste Fish Farmers in Assam, India

Das¹,

Haldar

Sarma

2022

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Aquaculture plays an important role in supporting livelihoods worldwide and also forms an important source of diet for over one billion people. The inland fisheries are of particular importance to the rural poor accounting for about fifteen per cent of total global employment. Besides employment, it caters to the nutritional need of the rural poor. Being an agrarian economy, fish farming is one of the important livelihood activities in Assam. Though “Kaibartta” is the main fishing community in Assam the profession has been taken over by the immigrant Muslim people in various districts of the state. Nevertheless, Scheduled Caste people living in rural areas have their own ponds at the back of their houses and they culture fish for domestic consumption. It is observed that rural farmers lack exposure to scientific fish farming and this may be considered one of the obstacles to low production and productivity. Thus, looking into the huge potentiality of the sector and its associated problems, a small intervention in the form of capacity building of the fish farmers’ belonging to the Scheduled Caste and distribution of various fishery inputs was undertaken. Twenty percent of three villages belonging to Schedule Caste in the Nagaon district were selected randomly for the interventions to be administered. The paper analyses the process of implementation along with the outcome of the project on the sample households. The result shows that the intervention has augmented the knowledge base and skill of the SC farmers and thereby enhances household income and nutritional security in a sustainable manner.

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Promotion of Fish Production and Doubling Farmer’s Income among Scheduled Caste Fish Farmers in Assam, India

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Haldar

Sarma

2022

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“…During this transition period, the economy supplemented by different occupations of the people from other places that do not depend solely on agriculture /or fishing has been much more diversified. This has reshaped their life style including nutritional intakes; and ultimately it has broadened their horizon of economic activities (Sarma and Ali, 2005). Due to constant socio-economic changes in fields like education, job opportunities, modern amenities of communication, transports, the people have been involved in entrepreneurship to design their livelyhood pattern to be more socio-biologically sustainable.…”

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Childs growth and nutritional status in two communities-Mishing tribe and Kaibarta caste of Assam, India

Basu¹,

Gulenur²,

Ratul³

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Physical growth and development studies were carried out among the populations of both tribal and non-tribal in eastern India by different scholars in different milieu and environmental factors from the eighties and onwards. Since then, the inhabitants of those areas have been doing agriculture, fishing, etc as prime occupation, but after a few decades in the same region, demographic and socioeconomic changes took place under the influences of worldwide globalization of industrialization. These are evident in the increase of budget allocation of the respective governments. At the same time, people living in the regions who are under the influence of industrialization have received improved life style being marked with over nutrition; while people in the regions that do not have the impact of socioeconomic improvement still struggle with under-nutrition. This co-existing situation of under-and over nutrition among the populations of Indian subcontinent is aptly described as double burden of malnutrition by Shukla et al. In this paper, growth based on anthropometric measurements of height and weight statistically treated in terms of height-forage weight ht-forage and BMI-forage -z score is analyzed by lms formula with reference to WHO. The nutritional status of 3 to 10 years plus children of Mishing (a scheduled tribe) and Kaibarta (a caste population of Assam, India) is studied. The children of 3-10 years plus of Mishing and Kaibarta populations were observed to be shorter than those of the children of CDC2000, Indian, and IndUp; but are taller than their ICMR counterpart. In the present study, the proportions of stunting, underweight, and thinness categories among the boys of both populations were observed to be higher than those of girls; this indicates suffering from chronic under-nutrition due to prolonged deprivation of required nutrients and illness.

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The Kaibartas: A Fishing Community of Assam, Their Society and Economy

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Promotion of Fish Production and Doubling Farmer’s Income among Scheduled Caste Fish Farmers in Assam, India

Promotion of Fish Production and Doubling Farmer’s Income among Scheduled Caste Fish Farmers in Assam, India

Childs growth and nutritional status in two communities-Mishing tribe and Kaibarta caste of Assam, India

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