Interaction
Year : 2018, Volume : 36, Issue : 1
First page : ( 69) Last page : ( 74)
Print ISSN : 0970-5554. Online ISSN : 2456-8961.

Significance of aran festival for rodent management by adi tribes of Arunachal Pradesh

Mishra B.P., Kumawat M.M.

Associate professor, Extension Education, Kashi Ram Krishi Vishvidyalay, Banda

Online published on 11 July, 2018.

Abstract

Arunachal Pradesh is a tribal state inhabitant by 28 major tribes and 110 of sub tribes. The Adi is one of prominent community which covers the central part of Arunachal Pradesh. The Adis have unique socio cultural entity among other tribes of the state. They celebrate a number of festivals; in particular their prime festivals are Aran, Solung, and Etor. Trapping and hunting is a part of their culture and they use different indigenous traps and methods for hunting the rodents during Aran festival. The study was aimed to know the different rodent traps and importance of Aran festival in relation to rodent control. The Adi tribal community has invented their own indigenous traditional traps and methods to control the rodents. Four indigenous traps viz., Etku, Odde, Uju and Middu mainly made up of bamboo and one traditional method i.e. Buroo were commonly used for rodent trapping by the Adi people. The Aran festival is celebrated during March month of every year and rodent trapping is the main activity during the festival. It helps in controlling the rodents before growing the main crop of rice side by side they have got ethnical importance being the exchangeable gift item during the engagement of bride and groom. The rodent meat is used during worship of various benevolent god, goddess, deities and spirits for well being of human kind.

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Keywords

Indigenous traps, Aran festival, Rodent control, Adi tribes.

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