Atolang
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| Atolang | |
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| Atuding | |
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| Cannabis in the village fields of Atolang, October 2022 | |
| Hierarchy | |
| Growing Region | Western Himalayas |
| Growing Area | Malana Valley |
| Geography | |
| Country | India |
| Province/State | Himachal Pradesh |
| District | Kullu District |
| Tehsil | Bhuntar Tehsil |
| Coordinates | 32.0917, 77.2832 |
| Settlement | |
| Type | Village |
| Landscape | |
| Elevation | 2,779–3,062 m |
| Terrain | Upper Malana Valley, with large fields between Wailing and Waichin |
| Documentation | |
| Appellations | Atolang |
| Accessions | 9 |
Atolang, also called Atuding, is a village in the upper Malana Valley in Kullu District, Himachal Pradesh, India. The collection documentation of the Zomia Collective places it between Nirang and Waichin, two busier parts of the valley, and describes it as having grown much as Wailing has, but with few rooms for tourists, so that it is "fairly quiet".[1][2] Nine accessions carry Atolang as their locality, and the village gives its name to an appellation.
Geography
The collection documentation describes the fields of Atolang as very large, stretching from Wailing to Waichin and above up to 3,500 m, and gives the elevations of cultivation as 2,800 to 3,200 m.[1][2] The Zomia Collective's index of growing regions lists Atolang Village and the Atolang "Upper" fields under the heading "Atolang (Atuding)".[3] The four accessions collected in 2025 record slopes facing south and south-east.
The 2011 census does not enumerate Atolang as a separate village.[4]
Cannabis cultivation
In the collection documentation's account Atolang produces "smaller batches of local-use resin rather than mass-market supply", and its location has kept it apart from much of the influx of modern hybrids, though access has improved in recent years.[2] The Zomia Collective's lots from Atolang are a general population collected by villagers making charas, selections from the village, from the Upper fields and from one farmer's own fields, and a feral general population.[2] Five accessions from these lots are dated to the 2022 harvest under the expedition code HIMA01. Four more were collected on 16 October 2025: a general population and three selections. They are recorded as grown in rotating monoculture.
The collection documentation describes the future of the Atolang population as uncertain. It names "excessive culling of males", the "overuse of chemical inputs" to the fields and "modern hybrids and foreign genetics" spreading in Himachal Pradesh and the Malana Valley.[2]
Accessions
| Name | ID | Type | Elevation (m) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZOM-IND-HIM-1020220018 | Atolang General Population 2022 | ZOM-IND-HIM-1020220018 | General population | 2779 |
| ZOM-IND-HIM-1020220019 | Atolang 'Village' Selection 2022 | ZOM-IND-HIM-1020220019 | Selection | 2779 |
| ZOM-IND-HIM-1020220020 | Atolang 'Upper' Selection 2022 | ZOM-IND-HIM-1020220020 | Selection | 3062 |
| ZOM-IND-HIM-1020220021 | Atolang 'Kishan's' Selection 2022 | ZOM-IND-HIM-1020220021 | Selection | 2779 |
| ZOM-IND-HIM-1020220022 | Atolang Feral Selection 2022 | ZOM-IND-HIM-1020220022 | Selection | 2779 |
| ZOM-IND-HIM-1020250004 | Atolang Green Mango Selection 2025 | ZOM-IND-HIM-1020250004 | Selection | 3000 |
| ZOM-IND-HIM-1020250005 | Atolang Black Selection #1 2025 | ZOM-IND-HIM-1020250005 | Selection | 3000 |
| ZOM-IND-HIM-1020250006 | Atolang Black Selection #2 2025 | ZOM-IND-HIM-1020250006 | Selection | 3000 |
| ZOM-IND-HIM-1020250021 | Atolang General Population 2025 | ZOM-IND-HIM-1020250021 | General population | 3000 |
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Malana". Zomia Collective. Retrieved 27 September 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "Atolang". Zomia Collective. Retrieved 27 September 2026.
- ↑ "Growing Regions". Zomia Collective. Retrieved 27 September 2026.
- ↑ 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.