Idiga or Ediga is a Hindu community of people concentrated in south central areas of Karnataka. Some Idigas are involved in soma and Ayurvedic medicine. The traditional occupation of Idiga people was that of toddy tapping. They are mostly concentrated in Malnad, Shimoga district. Similar but culturally distinct toddy tapping communities, called the Billava and Deevaru, exist in South Kanara and southern Karnataka, respectively. There had been attempts to cause these various communities, of which the Deevaru are considered to be socially the lowest-ranked, to cohere politically but these had petered out by the 1980s.