ABSTRACT
Hajong tribes of North-East region of Bangladesh were completely dependent on trees of homestead and surrounding forest for their livelihood. Traditionally they have been acquired the ethno-botanical knowledge. This study had undertaken to critically analyze the ethno-botanical perception of Hajong tribe of Nalitabari Upazilla of Sherpur district. The average family size 5.3 and male to female ratio was found 100:70. Most of the people were illiterate (53%) and they were Hindu religious. Their main occupation was agriculture. Their food habit as like as Bengali people. In compare to Bengali people the consumption of rice was 0.69 kg/person/day and fish consumption was 47gm/person/day instead of 0.49 kg/person/day rice consumption and 27gm/person/day of Bengali people. But meat consumption was lower than the Bengali people. The study has revealed that an average land holding was 3.4 acre of which 63% was agricultural land and 37% was homestead. The plant based food materials were root and tuber, fruits, young shoots and leaves, inner stem, flowers and inflorescence, and seeds. Most of the fruit materials were gathered from homestead and forest. Among the fruits 72% were their own, 20% from forest and only 8% purchased from market. They used medicinal plant to cure from different diseases. They knew the name of the plant and their parts to be taken to cure from different diseases. The forest (47%) and the homestead (53%) were the major source of medicinal plant. They use branch, twigs, leaves, main stem wood, agricultural residues and cow dung for fuel. Jam (31%) and mango (25%) were mainly preferred timber species. The main sources of fuelwood and timber species were forest and homestead. For different religious festival they use different parts of plant. Homestead was occupied with diversified plant species. The main species were Mango (12%), Aanthal (10), Payara (9%), Boroi (8%) etc. The study area had lost different important species such as Ashok, Ashatha, Bot, Mahua, Pahari Simul, Rakta chandan etc. The male members of the household were prefer all hard works while female members were engaged with light works. The major problems in the study area were lost of their traditional species, lacking of marketing facility of their product, limited employment opportunities. This study has suggested to improve their living standard.
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