Pulgi
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| Pulgi | |
|---|---|
| Hierarchy | |
| Growing Region | Western Himalayas |
| Growing Area | Parvati Valley |
| Geography | |
| Country | India |
| Province/State | Himachal Pradesh |
| District | Kullu District |
| Tehsil | Bhuntar Tehsil |
| Coordinates | 31.9662, 77.3557 |
| Settlement | |
| Type | Hamlet |
| Access | On foot from the road-head above Kasol |
| Landscape | |
| Elevation | 2,400 m |
| Terrain | South-facing terraced slopes |
| Documentation | |
| Appellations | Pulgi |
| Accessions | 1 |
Pulgi is a hamlet in a side valley of the Parvati Valley in Kullu District, Himachal Pradesh, India. It shares the valley with Grahan and Thunja and, like them, has no road connection. The hamlet stands at about 2,400 m on south-facing slopes.[1] Cannabis is cultivated around it for charas. Pulgi gives its name to an appellation.[2]
Name
Three similarly named places, which sources confuse, lie within about 35 km of one another in Kullu district. Pulga is a larger and much better known village on the opposite side of the valley near Barshaini, on the walking route towards Tosh and Kheerganga; it was one of five Manikaran-valley villages covered by an ethnobotanical survey of wild hemp published in 2018.[3] Pulag is an unrelated village above Naggar on the Chanderkhani side of the Kullu valley, enumerated in the 2011 census with a population of 208.[4]
Geography and settlement
Cannabis cultivation
The cannabis grown at Pulgi is a narrow-leaflet drug-type landrace worked for charas, as elsewhere in the side valley; the plants collected around the hamlet were chosen by residents who make the resin.[1] The Zomia Collective's index of growing regions tags the hamlet's fields "Eradications Ongoing".[2]
One accession was collected at Pulgi in 2022; its name begins with Grahan, the valley's larger settlement.[1]
Accessions
| Name | ID | Type | Elevation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZOM-IND-HIM-0920220016 | Grahan 'Pulgi' Selection 2022 | ZOM-IND-HIM-0920220016 | Selection | 2,289 m |
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Grahan Valley". Zomia Collective. Retrieved 31 August 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Growing Regions". Zomia Collective. Retrieved 27 September 2026.
- ↑ Rathore, S.; Shashni, S.; Samant, S.S.; Sundriyal, R.C. (2018). "Indigenous uses of wild hemp (Cannabis sativa) by the local inhabitants in Manikaran Valley of Himachal Pradesh, North Western Himalaya". Journal of Non-Timber Forest Products. 25 (3): 127–130. doi:10.54207/bsmps2000-2018-7393KF.
- ↑ Directorate of Census Operations, Himachal Pradesh (2014). District Census Handbook, Kullu: Village and Town Wise Primary Census Abstract (Report). Census of India 2011, Himachal Pradesh, Series 03, Part XII-B. Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India.