Causes on Facebook: Support the Jummas of Chittagong Hill Tracts

By Tandra Chakma

The majority of Bangladesh’s 143.3 million people are Bengalis, and approximately 2.5 million are Indigenous Peoples belonging to 45 different ethnic groups. These peoples are concentrated in the north, and in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in the south-east of the country. In the CHT, the Indigenous Peoples are commonly known as Jummas for their common practice of swidden cultivation (crop rotation agriculture) locally known as jum. > more> http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=2965771771803317542