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Give innovative ideas for value addition to the Minor Forest Produces and their Marketing

Start Date :

May 05, 2015

Last Date :

Jan 01, 2015

00:00 AM IST (GMT +5.30 Hrs)

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A large number of tribal people and other forest dwellers derive their source of livelihood from the collection and marketing of Minor Forest Produce (MFP) which provides them ...

A large number of tribal people and other forest dwellers derive their source of livelihood from the collection and marketing of Minor Forest Produce (MFP) which provides them essential food, nutritional, medicinal needs and cash income also. As the business of MFP is different from the traditional ones, it denies due benefits. While government supported Corporations and Federations trade in some MFPs, a large number of these are traded freely in the market which is also not very helpful to the gatherers as MFP production is highly dispersed spatially and because of the poor accessibility of these areas, a competitive market does not exist. As a strategic interventions to ensure fair returns for the MFPs to the gatherers/collectors, the Government has come up with a new scheme of Mechanism for Marketing of Minor Forest Produce (MFP) through Minimum Support Price (MSP) and Development of Value Chain for MFP.

Through the MyGov Platform, the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, seeks suggestions/information from all section of the society regarding innovative ideas for value addition to the MFPs, processing and marketing of MFPs, traditional skill and skill development, etc.

Providing Social Safety Net to the Collectors of Minor Forest Produce

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Venkatasubramanian B 11 years 4 days ago

1. Government must consider procuring spices directly from forest regions at a price and also facilitate the export of the goods. 2. Price with govt will help faster growth. 3. Direct sales of products manufactures in forest regions in cities and online sales facility by govt. or to help them to sale through other e-commerce websites. 4. Marketing should be handled by govt by creating separate website for forest produces so that common public can buy and postal department must handle delivery.

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Avinash Mundhra 11 years 4 days ago

PM needs to talk about benefits of using Plates made of "Pattal" in his Mann ki Baat as he did for encouraging use of Khadi."Pattal" plates will be environmentally friendly compared to the currently used plastic or thermocol plates.Above that it will generate employement opportunities for our ppl. who survive on forest products.

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chandra prabha bhatia 11 years 4 days ago

Forest are valuable resource of any nation and tribal people asset for a nation. we need to preserve their heritage so that we pass down it to the succedding generations. Govt must buy their products at MRP and market them through licencened contractors. Online portal under digital india is a welcoming step. products will get wider market

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prashant bhadoria 11 years 4 days ago

first of all we should set up main controlling centers according to the areas i.e. if there is small forest area 'A' which has a place 'B'by which 'A' is connected for their basic needs,we should set up small controlling center and collection centers over there which will collect their products and their views and will submit those at the nearest distt. or tehsil which will then further submit them to their repective state business headquarters. and likewise there products can reach out.

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Rajesh Jain 11 years 4 days ago

in jharkhand forest products like mahua,imli, jari booty,and more comes out in huge quantity.lack of wrong policies of govt,local dalals purchase the products in low rate and makes huge profits.govt self can buy these products and can globlize.

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victor talukdar 11 years 4 days ago

Bamboo Jewellery in the Northeast must be promoted

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Sankalp Gupta 11 years 4 days ago

Ist we need to select people from tribal community itself who are the best evaluator of there own produce, they also care for nature as well. All they need is a hand to support which can nurture them to face the market situations;can be taken care by NGOs working towards upliftment of tribal communities. With independent platform to perform i.e. Development of market infrastructure and handovering the same to the communities; is enough alongwith regular followup through tech-solutions, by GOI.

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kunjesh joshi 11 years 4 days ago

ithink government take more interest in this and we people also help government. make big exhibition for their product at one place a & make transportation free at this exhibition so more and more people come their and encourage them.all the products should be marketed with renowned Govt. brands

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sonia.singh 11 years 4 days ago

we need to identify products which could b Raw material ,end use product.have cooperatives established at each forest areas of the trials as members.they collect the produce at one place,do value addition or processing,based on the produce there cud be small manufacturing plants set up at the tribal areas.you cud rope in interns from NIFT/NID on govt scholarships to add designer touch to the procures if it's a tribal jewellery of bastar or rajasthan. Create market support by organising urhaats

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DEEPAK KUMAR 11 years 4 days ago

Online portals like flipkart, snapdeal, amazon, etc. should provide a page for tribal produce to market the products separately. Or government should have an easy online portal for tribal produce to market them and generate money for locals. This is not easy but not very difficult too. Govt. pays a considerable amount of money on welfare. Just a team of 5 people will be enough to tackle such jobs for one state.

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