Indigenous Agricultural Practices: A Supreme Key to Maintaining Biodiversity

Indigenous agricultural practices adopted by locals largely depend on traditional knowledge, common in agricultural system to preserve ecosystem, biodiversity, and useful in maintaining sustainable food and human health. Farmers possess a vast pool of indigenous knowledge in livestock management which reduces external input dependency by utilizing various renewable farm resources as agricultural practices. These practices address the rural development and nature conservation; contribute to maintaining ecosystem of particular area which leads to sustainable use of biodiversity conservation. This knowledge is not systematically recorded; therefore, it is not easily accessible to agricultural researchers; hence, these are valuable practices that provide farmer-to-farmer training or local technology transfer. Different governmental as well as non-governmental policies are designed to maintain biodiversity; hence, indigenous agriculture is one of the most important practices followed for biodiversity conservation. To change the people’s mind towards indigenous agriculture through spiritual education is one of the most important factors which could be focused on important ethics; hence, it can preserve both indigenous knowledge and biodiversity for achieving sustainable development.