Dedicated to community based management & trade of NTFP
(Non-Timber Forest Produces)
............... ... This website tries to present all possible information on NTFP management and trade mostly
relating to Orissa and its neighbouring states, where the NTFP from Orissa go for higher level value addition and marketing. The website not only emphasises on the market related information but also on scientific management of different NTFP such harvesting, processing, storage, commercial propagation etc. It provides a platform for the primary collectors' associations such as forest protection committees and their networks at the district and sub-district level, SHGs etc, NGOs, traders, PRIs, researchers etc to share their information, experience and expectations in the management and trade of NTFP.
............... ... Non-timber forest products (NTFP) are popularly known as goods of biological origin as well as services, derived from forestland excluding wood in all forms. The definition of NTFPs or MFP varies from state to state…. more
............... ... In situ & ex-situ conservation, cultivation of endangered and exportable species with good cultivation practices and identification of marketing and export channels are the need of the hour. Several medicinal plants are cultivated and domesticated, cultivation of others that are collected from the wild in vast amounts is desired. Collection, characterization and conservation of genetic resources of important medicinal plants have begun.
............... ... The institutional arrangements for management and trade of NTFP have undergone several changes over the years. As per the policies in vogue, mostly it is the government-controlled institutions that have been authorised to collect NTFP. However, there were periods when private enterprises or even joint stock companies have been given the lease rights. These rights have varied as per produce or geographical region. At times, leases have been given under monopoly agreement, and some other time there would be more then one buyers for the same district and produce. With the latest policy doing away with monopoly in most NTFP, presently TDCC, OFDC, ORMAS/DSMS, TRIFED and Gram Panchayat are the major players among government-controlled agencies and local self-government institutions.
............... ... A forest is generally defined as a plant community predominantly of trees and other woody vegetation. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of United Nations defines forest as land with a tree canopy of more than 10% and area of more than 0.5 ha. Forest is determined not only by presence of trees but also by the absence of other predominant land uses. In India, however, legal connotation of forest is employed. An area of land recorded as forest in revenue records or proclaimed to be forest under a forest law or Act is described as forest..
REGIONAL CENTRE FOR
DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION 424, Sahid Nagar, Bhubaneswar -7.
Orissa, India.
Ph:- 91-674-2547585/ 2547897
Telefax:-91-674-2540716
E-mail - rcdcbbsr@bsnl.in.
OFFICE ADDRESS :
RCDC Center For Forstery & Governance N/4--342,IRC Village, Nayapalli,
Bhubaneswar -15, Orissa, India.
Ph:-91-674-2552494
Tele Fax:-91-674-2540716 E-mail - rcdccfg@bsnl.in.
