Tribal Women
The life style of tribal people is in tune with the ecosystem and align with nature and natural resources. Our country has wide ranging diversity in nature and natural resources and possess a varied tribal population inhabiting under-developed areas which are remote and having low density of population.
Understanding of their life style and making them aware of modern development benefits is a unique territory of two-way learning and mutual benefit. To integrate them to a higher social stratum is the need of the hour and to empower them with bio resources-based entrepreneurship.
Tribal people have undocumented high-quality knowledge of local natural resources and remedies. Research can make careful observations and detailed documentation of traditional knowledge of tribal. These observations may be scientific, replicable and precise. The wealth of tribal knowledge of medicinal and other useful biota points to a great potential for research and the discovery of new drugs to fight diseases.
Descriptive research making careful observations and detailed documentation of ethnobotanical knowledge based on bio economy will be of special interest. One such recent study in Javvadu hill tribes of Tamil Nadu is successfully completed recently.
