<I>Grewia tiliifolia</I> Vahl a Multipurpose Tree Utilized by the Tribals of Srikakulam District, Andhra Pradesh, India

T. M. A. Niveditha

doi:10.36808/if/2017/v143i2/113581

Grewia tiliifolia Vahl a Multipurpose Tree Utilized by the Tribals of Srikakulam District, Andhra Pradesh, India

Authors

T. M. A. Niveditha Department of Botany, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36808/if/2017/v143i2/113581

Keywords:

NTFPs, Domestic Uses, Sustainable Use, Domestication, Ethnic Cloth Washing Process.

Abstract

The present study investigated the utilization of Grewia tiliifolia (Thada chettu) by ethnic communities in Srikakulam district, Andhra Pradesh. They are using Grewia tiliifolia for a number of domestic uses. It is also used for its edible fruits, fodder and medicine. Documentation and intergenerational transmission of traditional knowledge on multipurpose use of Grewia tiliifolia is helpful for well-being of future generations, gratitude and respect for nature; management, conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity outside formal protected areas; and transfer of the species among the households, villages and larger landscape The extraction of NTFPs is considered sustainable if it has no long-term deleterious effect on the regeneration of the harvested population. The contribution of NTFPs to improving livelihoods can best be assured through a process of gradual domestication of NTFPs in human-modified (agro) forest types. Documentation of ethnic process of cloth washing by utilizing bark is reported for the first time from the tribals of Srikakulam district.

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