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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)
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 ...
CONTINUE FROM LAST COMMENT AS THE MANY MORE USELESS OTHERWISE FOR THE JUNGLE WASTE FOR BURNING AND THAT ADDS TO THE POLLUTION AND SOME TIME FIRE IN JUNGLE TO DESTROY THE USEFUL PLANTS IT WON'T BE LEFT WITHOUT ANY PURPOSE LESS. THUS I AM VOLUNTEER TO JOIN THE CONSULTATION AND RESEARCH TO FIND PROJECT AND SUGGEST AS PER THE AVAILABITY OF RESOURCES. JAI HIND
IT IS ALREADY IN PRACTICE ALL OVER THE COUNTRY WHERE TRIBALS DO WITH CONTROL OF VILLAGE NUTS AND BOOTY SHARED BY THE ADMINISTRATION OF LOCAL BODY ONE INSTANCE SAY IN CHITRAKOOT I FOUND THE FOREST PRODUCE IN TON IS MAHUA WHICH PRODUCES FINE WINE . AND IS VERY HEALTHY FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS AND IF IT IS PERMITTED TO MAKE IN INDIA AND SELL UNDER THE LOCAL DISTELLERY THAN IT COULD BE THE PRODUCT TO BE BROUGHT IN THE CITY FOR JOICE TO HAVE COUNTRY SIDE AND COULD BE EARNING FOR TRIBALS. ANY MANYPRODUCTS.
GOVT CAN SET UP AN COMMITTEE TO REVIEW THE MARKET FOR SUCH PRODUCT . IT MEANS FIRST OF ALL A MARKET HAS TO BE DEVELOPED . A CENTER IN EACH DISTRICT CAN BE MADE FOR DEVELOPMENT OF THESE PERSONS AND THEIR BUSINESS.
It is mainly used for making strings, ropes, mats, bags, baskets, furniture, walking sticks, umbrella handles, sports goods, etc. (2).Tans and Dyes: Tannins are secretion products of plant tissues. Tanning materials are used in leather industry. The most commonly used tanning materials are mangrove, amla, oak, hemlock, anwal, wattle, myrobalans, ratanjot, flowers of dhawri, babul, avaram, etc.
30 per cent for rural use, 17 per cent for making paper pulp, 7 per cent for packaging and the remaining 14 per cent for other purposes.
Cane grows abundantly in moist forests of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra, Nagaland, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram. These are major producers of cane in India. Some parts of Assam, West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Orissa are also suitable for growth of cane.
Manipur, Punjab, Nagaland, and Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Bamboo is called the poor man’s timber as it provides cheap material for roofing, walling, flooring, matting, basketry, cordage, carthoods and a host of other things.Young tender culms are eaten; the seed is collected and eaten as grain. However, the most significant commercial use of the bamboo is for making pulp for the production of paper and newsprint.
More than 100 species of bamboo grow in the Indian forests covering an area of over one lakh sq km Andhra Pradesh(19.7 thousand sq km), Madhya Pradesh(14.9 thousand sq km),Orissa (10.5 thousand sq km),Assam(10.0 thousand sq km),Arunachal Pradesh (7.8 thousand sq km) and Karnataka (6.0 thousand sq km) are the main areas of its growth. The bulk of production comes from Andhra Pradesh, Tripura, Rajasthan, Mizoram, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Manipur,
tract and in Bihar, Orissa, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh and western part of Himachal Pradesh.
Annually over two million tonnes of sabai grass is collected and supplied to paper mills. The roots of khus grass are used for making cooling screens. Munj, a tall grass is used for making chicks, stools, chairs, etc. and the leaves are twisted into strings.Bamboo belongs to grass family but grows like a tree. It is woody, perennial and tall. It may attain a height of as much as 30 metres.
Grasses, Bamboos and Canes: Different types of grasses grow in different parts of the country; Most of the grasses are used as fodder or for thatching, but some grasses are better used for cordage, matting and as an important raw material for manufacturing paper. Grasses like sabai, bhabar and elephant are used for papermaking. Sabai is the most important grass which provides the basic raw material for paper industry. It is a perennial grass which grows on the bare slopes of the sub-Himalayas
Items like 1. Grasses, bamboos and canes, 2. Tans and Dyes, 3. Oils, 4. Gums and Resins, 5. Fibres and Flosses, 6. Leaves, 7. Drugs, spices and poisons, 8. Edible products, 9. Animal products are some of the examples which already has value addition.