Introduction to SEPL Management

Village-level forest management Naga society presented a varied pattern of near-dictatorship and extreme democracy (V. Elwin, 1969) In Naga society, chief or clans (e.g. Angami, Ao) predominate Village core of Sema society under control of a chief Selection of chiefs hereditary-elder sons leave village, youngest continues Village council decides where cultivation is carried out & chief allocates land for shifting cultivation to landless Shortening jhum cycles from 15-20 years to 7-9 years

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