Champhai Mizoram Teak Bamboo Agroforestry

Champhai district in eastern Mizoram, bordering Myanmar, practices agroforestry combining teak plantation, bamboo groves, and seasonal food cropping on jhum fallows. Mizo farmers plant teak saplings on ridgelines above jhum plots, cultivating maize and ginger on the lower slopes during the active cropping cycle. Bamboo species — melocanna baccifera and dendrocalamus giganteus — grow densely in valley bottoms and serve as raw material for house construction and weaving. Champhai bamboo cooperatives supply culms to Aizawl craft workshops. State Forest Department bamboo depots buy raw bamboo at fixed price from cooperative farmers. Teak logs from Champhai mature stands are auctioned through state timber corporation. The transition from shifting cultivation to settled agroforestry is supported under India National Bamboo Mission.