Fish and Their Habitats in North-East India Biodiversity Hotspot

Nutritional status, food insecurity, and biodiversity among the Khasi in Meghalaya, North-East India.

A community-based cross-sectional study was carried out with 603 children ages 5 and under and 500 of their mothers from 510 households to examine the prevalence of undernutrition and chronic diseases among the Khasis of North-East India. Anthropometric measurements including Mid-Upper Arm Circumference, height, and weight were taken. Dry blood spots to estimate haemoglobin and vitamin A were c...

Inventorying plant biodiversity in homegardens: A case study in Barak Valley, Assam, North East India

Homegardens are traditional agroforestry systems with complex structure and multiple functions. To understand the system, the socio-economic and biophysical aspects of homegardens in Dorgakona village, Barak Valley, North East India were studied. Since homegardens are also important sites for in situ on-farm conservation, the role of the rural people in the management and preservation of biodiv...

Traditional Healing Practices in North East India

Northeastern region of the India comprising states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura still follow the age old traditional healing systems based on Ayurveda, Unani and other allied practices. Each state is having its own dialect, plant and animal resources for meeting out the requirement of community including health facilities. They all adapt...

Unbalanced Agricultural Development in North-east India

Dapsone compliance in North-east India.

Urine samples were collected from male staff memb ers o f the hospital who were not t aking dapsone , from male in-patients 2 4-h after their previous daily supervised dose of 1 00 mg dapsone and from male out-patients at the tim e of their visit to collect a further stock of 1 00 mg dapsone tablets for daily self­ administration . A small crystal o f thymol was then added to each urine sample ...