Indigenous Technology Knowledge Of Rice

The ITK is an explicit or “Codified” knowledge that is transmittable in formal, systematic language. On the other hand, ITK is a tacit knowledge of the local or indigenous people, which is personal, content-specific, and therefore hard to formalize and communicate. Rice is an important crop in India occupying 43 million hectares of land representing various ecosystems. The crop is cultivated 2 meters below the sea level in Kuttanadu region of Kerala and 2500 meter above sea level in Jammu Kashmir. The list of indigenous technical knowledge followed by the rice farmers are listed below under various headings viz., seed treatment, growth management, weed management, pest and disease management and storage pest management.