{"id":70177,"date":"2019-12-20T14:57:31","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T09:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=70177"},"modified":"2020-12-30T17:02:49","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T11:32:49","slug":"minor-forest-produce-mfp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/minor-forest-produce-mfp\/","title":{"rendered":"Minor Forest Produce (MFP)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Minor Forest Produce<\/h2>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>Union Minister of State for Tribal Affairs has informed Lok Sabha about the Minor Forest Produce(MFP).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>About Minor Forest Produce:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Minor Forest Produce(MFP) is a subset of forest produce. The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act,2006 defines minor forest produce as all non-timber forest produce of plant origin.<\/li>\n<li>These include bamboo, brushwood, stumps, canes, cocoon, honey, waxes, Lac, tendu leaves, medicinal plants and herbs, roots among others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>About MSP for MFP scheme:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Minimum Support Price(MSP) for the MFP scheme was started by the Government of India in 2013 to ensure fair and remunerative prices to MFP gatherers. It is a Centrally Sponsored scheme.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Objectives: <\/strong>The scheme has been started with the following objectives:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To provide a fair price to the MFP gatherers for the produce collected by them and enhance their income level<\/li>\n<li>To ensure sustainable harvesting of MFPs.<\/li>\n<li>The Scheme will have a huge social dividend for MFP gatherers, majority of whom are tribals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Implementation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ministry of Tribal Affairs,Government of India is the Nodal Ministry for implementation of the scheme.<\/li>\n<li>TRIFED acts as the Central Nodal Agency for implementation and monitoring of the scheme through State level implementing agencies.<\/li>\n<li>Further,the State designated agencies will undertake procurement of notified MFPs directly from MFP gatherers at haats notified procurement centers at grass root level at prefixed Minimum Support Price.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Additional information:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>About MSP:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>MSP is the minimum price paid to farmers for procuring food crops.It is announced by the Government at the beginning of the sowing season.<\/li>\n<li>There are two objectives of the Minimum Support Price system (a)To prevent distress sale by the farmers in case of a bumper crop and (b)To procure the grains for public distribution by fair price shops.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>About TRIFED:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India (TRIFED) was established in 1987.It functions under the administrative control of Ministry of Tribal affairs.<\/li>\n<li>The basic objective of the TRIFED is to provide good price to the products made or collected from the forest by the tribal people.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minor Forest Produce News: Union Minister of State for Tribal Affairs has informed Lok Sabha about the Minor Forest Produce(MFP). Facts: About Minor Forest Produce: Minor Forest Produce(MFP) is a subset of forest produce. The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act,2006 defines minor forest produce as all non-timber forest&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/minor-forest-produce-mfp\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Minor Forest Produce (MFP)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1367],"class_list":["post-70177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","tag-env_3","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":17,"cached_at":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}