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Unique farming of Arunachal’s Apatani people: A key to future climate adaptation

By Arindam Roy, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Vaud The Apatani people (living in the Ziro valley in the Lower Subansiri district of Arunachal Pradesh) of India’s Eastern Himalayas practise a unique form of farming where two crops of rice (mipya and emoh) and one crop of fish (ngihi) are raised together. The wet rice fields are irrigated through […]