Denparang tshangla songngo oga chonyibu pruskin rang la( Where ever tsang la living are alike)

By Tim Bodt
Denparang tshangla songngo oga chonyibu pruskin rang la. rang gokap haptur nyoknyibu rang zale jamme langpa ga dengai sha lai phina mai. it is an innate part of the culture and life ethos of tshangla people. why would you work too hard for ...an extra bora phatsa of asham which you can sell and earn money to relax sometime in our unknown future (aiga mitshe takpa tenpa mala mai?) if you could also just have some arra immediatly and relax? in fact i am amazed by the land in miao, it is flat and not even shifting cultivation land, if labour is a limiting factor agricultural machinery could easily take over the heaviest work including plowing land, seeding, watering if necessary and even harvest. if cattle is reared in the homesteads than organic manure will be available and milk and other products can be sold to the nyera and make own cheese instead of depend on amul. fodder trees can be planted for feeding cattle and trees can be planted for leaf litter collection to mix with cow dung into manure for the fields. in pemakot people are having tough time because all land is on the steep hillslopes and cannot be cultivated for more than one or two years because of exhaustion of soil nutrients and because rain will carry away the fertile top soil. they have less cattle available and have to collect fodder and leaf litter from forest and even wadipa has to go with the cattle into forest for getting the cattle feed. every few years forest has to be cleared again in jhum style and new area planted and wild animals like zala, kasha, borang phakpa and zumpi wil be destroying crops. i think many pemakotpas up there would be jealous of the land resources available in miao and would be sad to see so good resources being wasted and instead all young people moving away leabving their drinchen phama to earn abroad but not contributing to people left behind. instead of buying the sabji from nyera at the market u can grow urself. i dont know whether there is a market for agriocultural products near by but if the miao people specialise in niche market they can earn more profit. but don't use the chemical fertisliser it makes thr soil hard and difficult to till. and pesticides can damage not only our human health but also affect the wildlife and shoudl be avoided. i think the land looks good so there are many options to make some good living if only people are willing to work and some investments cna be made la