• Prof.Sure Pulla Rao
• Konagala Manikanta

As per the report of Ministry of Tribal Welfare in India, in the last decade, about 3.5 million tribal people have left agriculture and agriculture-related activities to enter the informal labour market. There is a need to focus more on subsidiary occupations in the tribal economy which is mainly concentrated around the collection and processing of minor forest products and cultivation of food grains largely for the purpose of domestic consumption. The practice of agri-allied activities such as animal husbandry, , poultry farming , horticulture, fisheries , sericulture, bee-keeping etc. along with traditional agriculture will generate additional and substantial incomes to the tribals on one hand and restore the characteristics features of traditional tribal economy on the other. Agri-allied sectors create employment opportunities to the local tribal population and generates income to the tribal society. In this backdrop, the present research article attempts to explore the sectoral transformation of tribal economy in the course of time with a view to identify whether the changes in occupational structure of the tribals affect the origin and traditional agriculture occupation of tribal society which is the backbone to tribal economy with a view to strengthen the traditional tribal economy by encouraging agri-allied sectors along with main occupation.

Tribals, Tribal Economy, Agri-allied sector, occupational structure, Sectoral transformation, Substantial income

"PROMOTING AGRI-ALLIED SECTORS FOR THE FUTURE PROSPECTS OF TRADITIONAL TRIBAL ECONOMY – AN OVERVIEW", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 12, page no.c98-c103, December-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2212216.pdf

"PROMOTING AGRI-ALLIED SECTORS FOR THE FUTURE PROSPECTS OF TRADITIONAL TRIBAL ECONOMY – AN OVERVIEW", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 12, page no. ppc98-c103, December-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2212216.pdf