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Bata
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Hierarchy
Growing Region Western Himalayas
Growing Area Gori Valley
Geography
Country India
Province/State Uttarakhand
District Pithoragarh District
Tehsil Munsyari Tehsil
Coordinates 30.0306, 80.3214
Settlement
Type Village
Population 154 (2011)
Documentation
Accessions 2

Bata is a village in Munsyari tehsil, Pithoragarh District, Uttarakhand, India, in the Gori Valley growing area. The 2011 census counted 154 people in 36 households.[1] Two landrace cannabis accessions, named for its lower and upper parts, were collected there in September 2025.

Geography

Bata lies 32 km from Munsyari, the tehsil headquarters, and 141 km from Pithoragarh, the district headquarters. The village covers 196 ha.[1] OpenStreetMap places it about 9 km east-south-east of Munsyari.

People

Of the 154 people counted in 2011, 71 were men and 83 women. Of them, 9 belonged to Scheduled Castes and none to Scheduled Tribes.[1]

Cannabis

The two accessions, Bata Lower and Bata Upper, are seed of landrace general populations from the 2024 harvest, both collected on 21 September 2025 on the UTT01 expedition, the same day as the Bona and Madkot accessions. They describe a short-day crop broadcast-sown in May and June and harvested from September to November, from seed kept from locally grown flower, intercropped and growing as semi-feral stands, for several uses.

Accessions

 NameIDTypeElevation (m)Collected
ZOM-IND-UTT-0920250025Bata Lower General Population 2024ZOM-IND-UTT-0920250025General population2200
ZOM-IND-UTT-0920250026Bata Upper General Population 2024ZOM-IND-UTT-0920250026General population2500

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Directorate of Census Operations, Uttarakhand. District Census Handbook, Pithoragarh (Village amenities spreadsheet (DH_2011_DCHB_Village_Release_0500.xlsx)). Census of India 2011, Uttarakhand, Series 06, Part XII-A. Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 9 November 2026.