Abstract:
North East India being one of the hot spot in India (Asati and Yadav, 2004), is the native of a
large number of minor fruits which are occur in wild and semi wild condition in both plains and
hills of this region. These fruits have the potential to provide great social and nutritional benefits
to the human community. Some of the popular minor fruits of this region are Flacourtia
jangomas (Ponial), Baccaurea sapida (Lateku), Prunus jenkinsii (Thereju), Phyllanthus acidus
(Poramlakhi), Rhus semialata (Nagatenga), Syzygium jambos (Bogi Jamun), Parameria
polyneura (Mirika tenga), Spondias mangifera (Amora), Averrhoea carambola (Kordoi),
Dillenia indica (Ou-tenga) etc. (Mohan, 1987). These fruits are known to play an important role
in food and nutritional supplement of human beings as they are rich source of vitamins and
essential minerals. Apart from nutritive value, minor fruits are being used in the ethno-medicines
from time immemorial and provides significant source of livelihood support for many rural
communities.
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