Forest Self-Sufficiency

Living in the forest and enduring hardships, whether it is building a home to use herbs for treating illnesses, or making a living by eating fruits and flowers, or for this.

— bachcha lal · Shahganj, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Residents in the forest bushes have a business of various medicinal plants, and they benefit from it for food.

— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

We will live in small villages in the jungle, making a living by cutting and selling wood, and by selling all kinds of herbs that humans use.

— bachcha lal · Shahganj, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

We tribals cut down forests to build our homes and live in the forest itself. From the forest, we get roots, flowers, and delicious fruits, and we sustain our lives from them, and we also do farming.

— Ram Kumari · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

They go into the jungle, build houses and huts, hunt birds and wild animals for their food and survival, and they eat fruits and flowers.

— bachcha lal · Shahganj, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

We tribal people bring herbs from the forest to treat many diseases, for the well-being of people.

— Ram Maravi · Dindori, Madhya Pradesh

If we make and sell herbal medicine from the forest, we can sustain the family along with community resources.

— Anirudha Marai

To define our tribe, first of all, we live in jungle villages and use herbs and all kinds of medicines.

— bachcha lal · Ormaura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Herbs of the forest

— Vinita Singh Yadav · Dharura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Traditional medicinal remedies are being prepared for obtaining by searching for medicinal herbs, fruits, roots, and other medicinal items from the forest.

— Padmalochan Majhi · Gandhinagar, Rayagada, Odisha

By living in the forest

— अमर जीत · Ormaura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Our community lives by building homes in the forests, hunting wild animals, and sustaining themselves by eating tamarind, mango, guava, and other produce found in the forest. Thus, they belong to a different way of life.

— bachcha lal · Shahganj, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

We tribal people bring herbs from the forest and treat ailments, which is very important for health.

— Ram Maravi · Dindori, Madhya Pradesh

The Makadia tribe's life and livelihood depend on the forest. They live by gathering and selling fruits, flowers, roots, medicinal herbs, and mushrooms from the forest as food. They respect whatever their elders say. When food in one forest runs out, they move to another forest.

— Anirudha Marai

We get various types of fruits and roots from the forest.

— Laba Kumar sabar · Bada Baridi, Rayagada, Odisha

We get various greens and various fruits from the forest.

— Laba Kumar sabar · Bada Baridi, Rayagada, Odisha

People in the village bring herbs from the jungle and eat them for their health, which is very beneficial or advantageous.

— Ram Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

We are all tribal people, we live in forests. We collect our food from the forests. With that, we sustain ourselves. This is indeed our life's goal.

— KusaPradhani · Anakabadi, Rayagada, Odisha

Traditionally, we used to use various types of medicinal properties from the forest.

— Suna majhi

We get treatment from the forest.

— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

Even now, fruits, flowers, healthy herbs, and medicines from the forest are being used by us, including the tribal community.

— ishwarsabar · Chelema, Seraikela-Kharsawan, Jharkhand

In the forest, there was a bush for building homes, as well as an edible bush.

— Surajsingh Parmar · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

Forest herbs

— Vinita Singh Yadav · Dharura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

We really enjoy staying among the lush green trees and plants in the forest. We get pure air from those trees and plants, and by living in the forest, we get many types of medicinal herbs.

— Kamleah Kumar · Dalla, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Due to living in forest and hilly areas

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Our diet. We are in a jungle area. The jungle's herbs and some of its air. Now, due to its influence, our diet is different. We remain healthy for this reason because we rely on herbs; when we wake up in the morning, it's the herbs...

— ANIL KUMAR · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

We Adivasi communities are communities that depend on nature, collect roots and tubers from the forests, and use them as food, which is very nutritious and also serves as medicine.

— Ram Kumari

Due to living in forests

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

We can use muIdim found in the forest as traditional medicine.

— Anupama Mahanand · Sundargarh, Odisha

To establish a group for the sale of medicinal fruits and roots found in the forest, and to establish community resources.

— Anirudha Marai

People bring many other types of medicines from the forest that are found in abundance.

— Ram Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

Our tribe has been living in this village for a long time. We are natives of the surrounding area. Now, medicinal herbs...

— Vijay Kumar bhardwaj · Kasdol, Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh

Obtaining food by hunting wild animals in the forest, eating fruits and flowers, and growing grains.

— bachcha lal · Shahganj, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

From living in the forest

— अमर जीत · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

I am in the forest, searching for medicinal herbs. I have passed deep into the forest. People will then give medicine, and they will come again to the forest to clear it.

— Parsuram Sa · Sundargarh, Odisha

We are still getting fruits, plants, health-related herbs, and medicines from the forest. We are safe for now, and we are still here.

— ishwarsabar · East Singhbhum, Jharkhand

Tribal people generally live in forests, live in hills, eat forest products, so they lead a different life from ordinary people.

— Kunakanta Behera · Dashapalla, Nayagarh, Odisha

From the forest, we also get many things as vegetables, such as

— Kekti Tekam

We bring wood from the forest, and we bring wood, cook food, also make bread, sell it, and for our home.

— Ram Maravi · Samnapur, Dindori, Madhya Pradesh

Tribal people often live in forests and eat many things that we don't know.

— Chanda