Typically, their subsistence is based on forest fallow shifting cultivation systems, gathering of wild plants, hunting, and use of forest vegetation for grazing of livestock.

Raising farm productivity and income requires improved irrigation, wasteland reclamation, warehousing, marketing, transport development, and the free movement of produce within the country.

With food prices now soaring, most of Asia s working poor, who are already struggling on degraded lands, in sweatshops, on streets and at homes, risk further destitution.

Raising farm productivity and income requires improved irrigation, wasteland reclamation, warehousing, marketing, transport development, and the free movement of produce within the country. This is why rapid strengthening of India s physical and social infrastructure is central to its progress.