Augmenting Farmer Producer Company through Aligning Indigenous Community Based Beliefs and Practices: Learnings from Abotani Community of Eastern Himalayan Region

Abotani community of eastern Himalayan region have been recognized as one the ethnic groups with comprising of many tribes of same antecedent. Their old scientific management of natural resources through their indigenous belief and practice system. The traditional knowledge of the community, though has not been recorded in the writing format, has been preserved by passing the knowledge from one generation to another generation by word of mouth and daily need-based practices. The paper highlights the inter-relationship between indigenous community-based beliefs and practicing cooperation and management of natural resources and farming practices for many centuries. preserve and scientific agroforestry approaches such as The Abotani community has also been involved in community management practices like Kebang, Kabo,Soru-Ruth, Rongo-Ray, Aka Mele, Buling. The paper has emphasized the similarity with that of present days' village community management system and modern. Finally, the paper has attempted to focus on the success story of a commercially viable cooperative farming.