This Ministry provides Grants-in-Aid to Tribal
Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India Limited (TRIFED) and the
State Tribal Development Co-operative Corporations/ Federations under the
Scheme of “Institutional Support for Development and Marketing of Tribal
Products/Produce’. The scheme covers the all the states with ST population and
grant are provided for the following activities:-
(i)
Retail Marketing
Development Activity
(ii)
Minor Forest Produce
(MFP) Marketing Development Activity
(iii)
Vocational Training,
Skill Up-gradation and Capacity Building of ST Artisans and MFP Gatherers.
(iv)
Research &
Development /IPR Activity.
Efforts
are made to enhance grants to TRIFED within the available resources
commensurate with the overall objectives, its achievements and matching the
marketing development activities for the tribals. From the year 2011-12
onwards, there has been constant increase in the grants to TRIFED as under:
Year Grants
(in Rs. Lakhs)
2011-12
2200.00
2012-13
3224.00
2013-14
3431.00
2014-15
3500.00
In addition to provide support to the institutions for
development and marketing of tribal products and produce, the Government has
recently launched a Centrally Sponsored Scheme namely ‘Mechanism for Marketing
of Minor Forest Produce (MFP) through Minimum Support Price (MSP) and
Development of Value Chain for MFP’ as a measure of social safety for MFP
gatherers. The Scheme seeks to establish a system to ensure fair monetary
returns for their efforts in collection, primary processing, storage,
packaging, transportation etc. It also seeks to get them a share of revenue
from the sales proceeds with cost deducted. It also aims to address other
issues for sustainability of process.
This information was given today by the Minister in the Ministry of
Tribal Affairs, Shri Jual Oram in reply to written question in Lok Sabha.
SS: marketing 08-08-2014 (lok)