Baiga, some photographs

Photographs are of baiga's tribes in their usual traditional dress at an event in Bhopal. They had performed their traditional dance 'Saila - Reena'. Baiga is one of the primitive tribes of Madhya Pradesh anFarmers here (on Indore – Bhopal highway) shared that wheat acreage had suffered this year due to sudden rainfall and drop in temperatures in last two months. Water crisis also had impacted on the crop in other districts. Framers from Astha on Indore Bhopal highway are already harvesting and collecting the wheat to sell it further. They share that acreage per biga is down this year. Though figures stated in official releases state that wheat acreage may be able to achieve the target while what farmers in Astha shared was different – may be case in MP will be different due to the impact of weather on the crops this year. They even shared that price what they are fetching is quite lower as the damaged crop gets almost half of the fixed price. d reside mainly in mandla, dindori, shahdol, anuppur and balaghat districts of MP. They live in forest areas and prefer jhoom cultivation.

Contributed by Prashant Kumar Dubey