Natural Resources in North East Region of India

The North East India comprising of eight states, namely Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura have a total geographical area of 262180 km and is characterized by fragility, marginality, inaccessibility, cultural heterogeneity, ethnicity and rich in biodiversity. The traditional agricultural systems in the region have low cropping intensity, subsistence farming, undulating topography and faulty land use pattern. The prospects of the region include mega biodiversity hot spot areas and abundant natural resources such as land and soils, minerals, industrial resources like oils, forest covers, agricultural land, rivers, indigenous crop germplasms, flowers and ornamental plants, medicinal and aromatic plants, livestock, poultry and fisheries. Prevalence of diverse agro-climatic conditions and natural vegetations have become a niche of a number of native germplasms of cereals, grain legumes, oil seeds, tuber crops, fruits, vegetables, spices, medicinal and aromatic plants and indigenous farming systems for sustenance of rural population.