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Habitat and Nutritional Status of a Kandh Village of Eastern Ghats, Orissa

1997; Kamla Raj Enterprises; Volume: 8; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/09709274.1997.11907230

2456-6608

Kalpana Rani Sabat, Nirmal Chandra Das, Bijayalaxmi Das,

Agricultural Science and Fertilization

Kandhs. being the large it tribal group in Orissa. are mostly distributed id the mountain regions of Phulbani. Koraput. Gaujam. Kitia. Dangria and Desia are the three subsections of Kandh;; All the Kandhs of Ganjam belong to the Desia. The study highlights the habitat and nutritional sum of the Kandhs of Ganjam. Although these Kandhs stay in the close proximity of a city, the study shows that most of their activities are still connected with the forest ecosystem. They almost return their traditional way of life and are still in the stage of subsistence economy. The different types of foods consumed by the Kandhs are much less than the ICMR standards. The average intake of calories of an adult Kandh if 2084 which is also lesser than the ICMR standards. The average adult consumption unit is 4.7 per family. Both weight-for-height and weight for-age measurements show that Kandhs are under weight and are in the state of malnutrition particularly under nutrition.