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Table 1 Community farming calendar in Xishuangbanna

From: Agrobiodiversity and in situ conservation in ethnic minority communities of Xishuangbanna in Yunnan Province, Southwest China

Month

Farming activities and traditional customs activities

January

Winter corn management, weeding and fertilizing, sweet corn harvest, vegetable and peanut sowing, house building, wedding, tea weeding but not fertilizing, sugarcane harvest, Amomum villosum weeding and old branch and leaf cutting

February

Spring tea collection, fresh corn harvest, rubber tree weeding and fertilizing, sugarcane harvest, Amomum villosum weeding and old branch and leaf cutting

March

Tea collection, rubber tree tapping, upland rice sowing and weeding, sugarcane harvest

April

Tea collection, corn sowing, rubber tree tapping, winter corn harvest, sugarcane harvest

May

Tea collection, corn sowing, rubber tree tapping, winter corn harvest, paddy rice seedling and transplanting, upland rice harvest.

June

Tea collection, rubber tree tapping, paddy rice seedling and transplanting, upland rice harvest

July

Tea collection, rubber tree tapping, wild mushroom collection

August

Tea collection, rubber tree tapping, wild mushroom collection, Amomum villosum collection

September

Tea collection, corn harvest, rubber tree tapping, paddy rice collection

October

Tea collection, rubber tree tapping, paddy rice collection, vegetable sowing, sweet corn sowing, sugarcane leaf cutting

November

Winter corn harvest, wedding, fuel wood collection, house building, sugarcane leaf cutting

December

Winter corn harvest, wedding, fuel wood collection, house building, sugarcane harvest, vegetable and potato sowing