Floristic Diversity in Northeast India: Gauging the New Dimensions

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Northeast region of India is the richest store house of plant diversity throughout the country and supports about 50% of India's mega-diversity. The region exhibits the richest diversity in orchids, zingibers, yams, oranges, grapes, bamboos, canes and wild relatives of cultivated plants. North East India is the home to many botanical curiosities and botanical rarities and it has the potentiality for the major agricultural produce includes food grains, cereals and rice. The region's advantages in producing fruits, vegetables and other horticulture products can be triggered by improved production dynamics which will also create food & nutrition security as well as improved livelihood & people's wellbeing. The region produces a large amount of spices such as chilly, gingers, mustard seeds, turmeric, cardamom and others and have the potential of large production and productivity with further technology adoption and other factors.

Considering the issues there is an urgent need of actions to promote conservation and sustainable use of the forests and forest resources of Northeast India and existing policies need to be reorganised to support community forest stewardship to better withstand and sustainability. Community based landscape planning and conservation effort is critically important and there should be a major strategy for securing the biodiversity of the region.

Guptajit Pathak (b.1975), Assistant Professor, Department of History, Kanya Mahavidyalaya, Guwahati, Assam, India is a trilingual contemporary poet, story writer, script writer, author, translator, reviewer, resource person as well as a prominent editor. His poems, stories, articles, reviews and research papers are published in many regional, national and international journals of repute &ezines and translated into different languages. Mr. Pathak has begged the honour of "Outstanding Researcher in History Award" for his contribution in historical research conferred by Global Outreach Research & Education Association in the 3rd Global Outreach Research and Education Summit & Awards on 31st July, 2019 at Bengaluru. Recently, he has acted as a resource person in online National Seminar titled "Literaray Emperor Anna Bhau Sathe" on 1st & 2nd May, 2020 at Arts & Commerce College (Affiliated to University of Mumbai), Phondaghat. At present, he is a Doctoral Research Scholar in the Department of History, Assam University (Central), Silchar, India, Co-ordinator of IQAC, KanyaMahavidyalaya, Guwahati, Assam, India, and the convener of national workshops, seminars, and conferences.

Sangita Patra (b.1995), Research Assistant of National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, NERC, Guwahati, Assam, India is a budding researcher and editor. Her works in multiple dimensions of Agriculture and Rural Development broadly address ground level scenario of rural lives and pattern of rural livelihood. Her research works predominantly focus on rural people's wellbeing through improved livelihood. Her core research interest areas are sustainable rural livelihood, smallholder farming system, social network analysis, and climate change.

Northeast region of India is the richest store house of plant diversity throughout the country. The region exhibits the Aichest diversity in orchids, zingibers, yams, oranges, grapes, bamboos, canes and wild varieties of cultivated plants. North East India is the home to many botanical curiosities and botanical rarities and has the potentiality for the major agricultural produce includes food grains, cereals and rice. The region's advantages in producing various agri&horticulture productscan be triggered by improved production dynamics which will also create food & nutrition security as well as improved livelihood & people's wellbeing. Considering the issues there is an urgent need of actions to promote conservation and sustainable use of the forests and forest resources of Northeast India and existing policies need to be reorganised to support community forest stewardship to better withstand and sustainability.

The proceeding is a collection of 17 research papers from the academicians, scholars and researchers from different parts of the country.