ABSTRACT
The promotion of an effective rice-farming-system (RFS)-based adaptation (RFSbA) approach can address the risks related to extreme weather conditions, food, health, and nutrition insecurity, loss of agriculture labor and livelihoods. Here we discuss the RFS and the cultural practices of a tribal community Kurichiya of Wayanad district, Kerala, India. Kurichiya's RFS that comprises rice paddies, canals, wild bushes, sacred groves and individual tree species holds a rich level of agrobiodiversity. Even though the area of rice production has reduced in Kerala, the cultural and collective practices of Kurichiya made them sustain their RFS integrity and practices and cope with the present time of uncertainty. The importance of protecting and strengthening such kind of globally important agricultural heritage systems becomes significant in the context of the COVID era and climate change-induced extreme weather conditions and emerging pests and diseases. © 2022 selection and editorial matter, Amitava Rakshit, Somsubhra Chakraborty, Manoj Parihar, Vijay Singh Meena, P.K. Mishra, H.B. Singh;individual chapters, the contributors.
ABSTRACT
Recently shopping has become a day to day activity and people are visiting the supermarket for purchasing products for their daily needs. Whenever a person is buying products they need to search for the product in such a big store and collect all the required products and need to wait in queue for billing and payment. Since it is time consuming they will be annoyed. Our main aim in developing this product is to reduce the time consumption in searching products and waiting in queue while billing and payment thereby reducing the issues of social distancing which is the need for the hour. In this product RFID card reader is used in each product to identify it and a special RFID tag for payment and also for recharge, using EEPROM to store balance value and android app to search and locate products in store and also a payment option in application. © 2021 IEEE.