• Bidyut Bikash Deka

Since time immemorial noncultivated food plants have displayed a vital role to the food behavioral system of human community. Due to high cost and low supply of healthy food, search for cheap and alternative sources of nutritious food has increased day by day. Wild edible plants (WEP) have emerged as new alternative sources to healthy and nutritious food. There are established practices of using non-conventional food plants as stand by source of food at times of famine, natural calamity and at times when major crops fail due to local climatic aberrations. It reveals that WEP also have medicinal properties though they are overlooked as food for poor families. The aquatic vegetation of Nalbari district is quite rich due to presence of a large number of water bodies like wetlands, swaps and a good number of rice fields. The study reveals that various parts of 32 species belonging to 29 genera and 21 families of angiosperms are edible and consumed by the communities inhabiting there in.

Non cultivated, Aquatic, WEP, Angiosperm, Nalbari

"Non cultivated Nutritive Aquatic Angiosperms of Nalbari District, Assam", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 2, page no.378-383, February-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1902G55.pdf

"Non cultivated Nutritive Aquatic Angiosperms of Nalbari District, Assam", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 2, page no. pp378-383, February-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1902G55.pdf