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Ltd (TRIFED) is acting as the nodal agency to commercialize MFPs.
It also sponsors research and development in order to improve the
technologies and processes used in MFP collection, post-harvest
processing, value addition, while reducing the drudgery of the
collectors. It aims to increase the benefits to the collectors while
ensuring sustainability of the forests. The larger framework of the Van
Bandhu Kalyan Yojana (Forest dwellers Benefit Scheme) will bring
greater development for forest dwellers. State level interventions such
as Madhya Pradesh’s Vindhya Herbals is also seen as a good initiative
in ensuring market access for forest produce.
Joint Forest Management and the Forest Rights Act are other policy
interventions that provide a framework to promote social forestry
whereby communities are engaged as owners of the forests and are
responsible for management and sustainable utilization of the forests.
Field interventions in Medha Lekha village of Gadchiroli where a
bamboo plantation was leveraged for gaining revenue is a successful
case in example.
The government has been undertaking several other initiatives
to promote innovation in the forestry sector. These include forest
biotechnology to improve forest plantations; and the National Mission
on Bamboo Applications (NMBA) to improve forested area and also
to provide village energy security. In addition, the mission ensures
wood substitutes and composites has construction and structural
applications, develops processing technologies suitable to Indian
bamboo, undertakes propagation and cultivation practices, develops
industrial products, knowledge management, and extends support to
SMEs in the sector.
Other initiatives of the MoEFCC include all-India coordinated
projects on taxonomy, ethno-botany, botanical, and zoological surveys
which are important from the perspective of institutional capacity
building. The major change of integrating the climate change aspects
into the MoEFCC from 2014 has brought to the forefront, the integral
relationship between strong forestry practices and corresponding
mitigation and adaptation to climate change impacts. Hence, further
research in the context of low carbon development need to be directed
to understand linkages with existing as well as new initiatives.
1.4.9 Waste Management
Innovation and R&D
Greening of the waste sector requires innovation and technology.
Technologies have to be developed for segregation, collection,
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It also sponsors research and development in order to improve the
technologies and processes used in MFP collection, post-harvest
processing, value addition, while reducing the drudgery of the
collectors. It aims to increase the benefits to the collectors while
ensuring sustainability of the forests. The larger framework of the Van
Bandhu Kalyan Yojana (Forest dwellers Benefit Scheme) will bring
greater development for forest dwellers. State level interventions such
as Madhya Pradesh’s Vindhya Herbals is also seen as a good initiative
in ensuring market access for forest produce.
Joint Forest Management and the Forest Rights Act are other policy
interventions that provide a framework to promote social forestry
whereby communities are engaged as owners of the forests and are
responsible for management and sustainable utilization of the forests.
Field interventions in Medha Lekha village of Gadchiroli where a
bamboo plantation was leveraged for gaining revenue is a successful
case in example.
The government has been undertaking several other initiatives
to promote innovation in the forestry sector. These include forest
biotechnology to improve forest plantations; and the National Mission
on Bamboo Applications (NMBA) to improve forested area and also
to provide village energy security. In addition, the mission ensures
wood substitutes and composites has construction and structural
applications, develops processing technologies suitable to Indian
bamboo, undertakes propagation and cultivation practices, develops
industrial products, knowledge management, and extends support to
SMEs in the sector.
Other initiatives of the MoEFCC include all-India coordinated
projects on taxonomy, ethno-botany, botanical, and zoological surveys
which are important from the perspective of institutional capacity
building. The major change of integrating the climate change aspects
into the MoEFCC from 2014 has brought to the forefront, the integral
relationship between strong forestry practices and corresponding
mitigation and adaptation to climate change impacts. Hence, further
research in the context of low carbon development need to be directed
to understand linkages with existing as well as new initiatives.
1.4.9 Waste Management
Innovation and R&D
Greening of the waste sector requires innovation and technology.
Technologies have to be developed for segregation, collection,
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