Northeast’s mithun gets ‘food animal’ tag and its meat a leg-up

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The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) recognised Mithun, a semi-domesticated bovine animal as a food animal. Found in altitudes ranging between 300 to 3,000 meters, mithuns have traditionally been part of the culture of various tribes in Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur and Mizoram. Consumed for generations across many regions of the Northeast, work is on to help mithun farmers and tribal village communities benefit commercially from the sale and processing of mithun meatAbhijit Mitra recalls an apocryphal tale from the time he was posted in Nagaland as Director of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research’s main research centre on mithuns, a bovine that’s indigenous to some of the states in the Northeast.


     

     

     

 

     


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