Indigenous Technical Knowledge in Agricultural Production Systems Prevalent in Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh

摘要

The tribal tracts of Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh is endowed with rich, time-tested wealth of traditional knowledge, which is, to a great extent remain undocumented. According to Haverkort (1995), indigenous technical knowledge (ITK) is the actualknowledge of a given populatiph that reflects the experiences based on tradition and includes more recent experiences with modern technologies. Unlike the so-called modern technologies, the ITKs are evaluated, refined and fine-tuned by generations acrosscenturies for their suitability to varied circumstances and situations and therefore, these ITKs are more broad based, ecologically sound, environmentally safe, socially acceptable, economically resilient and more so, practicable in its totality-all that is essential to call any practice, a technology.