<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family: Mangal;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language: HI" lang="EN-GB">Ethnobotany: Plants use in fishing and hunting by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Adi </i>tribe of Arunachal Pradesh </span>

Abstract

In addition to agriculture, fishing and hunting are other part of life for the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Adi </i>tribe. Methodical field survey and personal interview of local aged between 30-70 yrs of both sexes using standard questionnaires were carried out to collect information on the plants use in fishing and hunting by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Adi</i> tribe of East Siang district, Arunachal Pradesh. Altogether, 28 plants belonging to 21 genera and 14 families were encountered during the study period, which were used as fish poison (25) for easy catch, as arrow poison (1) for hunting animals and as adhesive (2) for catching birds. There is hardly any untoward harm to human who consume the hunts. These could be due to safe phyto-chemical nature of the plants. Thus, these plants seem to have potential use in medicines, agriculture and industry sectors. The present study provides only preliminary report and leaves room for further scientific and analytic research to evaluate the validity of the toxic as well as safe properties of these plants. These plants are enumerated alphabetically with scientific names, vernacular names, family and part used.