Similipal Biosphere Reserve & NTFPs along with wild root and tuber crops

Working in Similipal Biosphere Reserve forest, Collecting the data of NTFPs and the traditional food systems on Dioscorea species and other wild tuber crops. They are bitter in taste but tribal community put them overnight in running water for detoxification. After this process, they eat them as snacks and vegetables particularly during famine or off agricultural seasons.

Tuberous plant of Odisha & Functional Food

Sanjeet Kumar

During 2009-2010, I was working on the indigenous knowledge of Dongria Kondha, a primitive tribal community of Odisha. They have sound skill in agriculture and therapeutic uses of wild plants. They collect the tuberous plant from the Niyamgiri forest and stored them for off agricultural seasons. They use them as food and medicine. This practice give us a modern scientific base line to develop the functional food or nutraceutical food. These food plants might be effective against malnutrition and microbial infections.

D. bulbifera- Pest- Herbal extract (Sanjeet's formulation)- healthy D. bulbifera

Be nature-friendly not chemical friendly.
D. bulbifera- Pest- Herbal extract (Sanjeet's formulation)- healthy D. bulbifera
Bulbils are edible. Rural and tribal people eat it as vegetables during off agricultural seasons. IMO wild horticultural vine.