Baseline survey for agricultural biodiversity in Anantapuramu and Kurnool districts of Andhra Pradesh
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Prem N. Mathur. (24/12/2015). Baseline survey for agricultural biodiversity in Anantapuramu and Kurnool districts of Andhra Pradesh.
Abstract
Bioversity International is a global research-for-development organization belonging
to CGIAR consortium with a vision that agricultural biodiversity nourishes people and
sustains the planet. It delivers scientific evidence, management practices and policy options
to use and safeguard agricultural biodiversity to attain sustainable global food
and nutrition security. Bioversity works with partners all over the world including India. In
its effort to empower farmers through various interventions for conserving and utilizing the
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native/local biodiversity for sustaining the efforts of conservation and management and
ensuring nutritional security on long-term basis, it has started programmes with Dr. Y.S.R.
Horticultural University, Tadepalligudem, Andhra Pradesh, India which has a similar vision.
A survey was planned and implemented in four villages namely, Mallapuram and Kurlapalli
of Anantapuramu district and V. Bonthiralla and Yerraguntla of Kurnool district. A total 200
households were identified among the four villages for the this survey work. Focussed
Group Discussions (FGD) were carried out to elicit the indegenous and traditional local
knowledge about agriculture biodeversity, dietery biodiversity and market biodeversity
available in the study areas. This was mainly aimed at generating complete inventary of
useful plant, animal, acquatic species used by local communities, particularly for food and
income. It also aimed at preparing the inventary of variety of food consumed and the species
and products bought and sold in the market by the people in the study villages.