The traditional adivasi Gharabari is not the Kitchen Garden of the households. It is more than a kitchen garden complete with integration of livestock and domestication of wild species. This diverse system of farming is now getting strengthened through integration of more sustainable approaches like in-situ water conservation, Compost Pits, portable Vermi compost pits, layered crops and use of plant and animal extracts for crop management. The families also learned to produce non-traditional food varieties to minimize their market dependency’. 

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This work is based on a piece of research centering round the problem of ‘Traditional Adivasi   Institutions and Development Processes in Malkangiri district of Orissa’, which in other way reflects the spurt of ethno-cultural consciousness among certain adibasi communities. Institutions are the starting point for defining ethno-cultural identity and launching of socio-economic development and socio-political or socio-cultural movement. Such study findings are the devices to exert pressure and assert the natural rights of the adibasi people over their traditional resources. Some of the adibasis feel that their resource base is being steadily eroded, and in order to protect their traditional rights over land, forest and water resources they have to keep their flock together by revamping their ethno-cultural identity and solidarity. At the same time in the planned development intervention they have to participate for maximization of their benefits.

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