New Delhi, Mar 24 : It is not an earthquake or flood but rats that have led to allotment of funds from the Central government for the National Calamity Contingency Fund for Mizoram. The hill state has been allotted Rs 8.81 crore for distribution among the farmers in all eight districts of the state for the victims of Mautam.
Famine was triggered in many areas of Mizoram by Mautam or gregarious bamboo flowering which results in explosion of rat population. The rodents ravaged paddy fields and other cultivated areas leaving nothing for the farmers to harvest leading to acute food shortage.
Mautam is the Mizo name for “death of the bamboo”, a strange ecological phenomenon which occurs in a cycle of every 48 years or so. Melocanna Baccifera, comprising more than 95 per cent of the state’s bamboo plantation, flowers causing immense hardship to the tribal populace. Officials said no starvation death has been reported in any part of the state despite acute food shortage.
Famine was triggered in many areas of Mizoram by Mautam or gregarious bamboo flowering which results in explosion of rat population. The rodents ravaged paddy fields and other cultivated areas leaving nothing for the farmers to harvest leading to acute food shortage.
Mautam is the Mizo name for “death of the bamboo”, a strange ecological phenomenon which occurs in a cycle of every 48 years or so. Melocanna Baccifera, comprising more than 95 per cent of the state’s bamboo plantation, flowers causing immense hardship to the tribal populace. Officials said no starvation death has been reported in any part of the state despite acute food shortage.
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