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Non Timber Forest Produce and Tribal Livelihood Gap Analysis

The gap analysis study carried out by CInI indicates that NTFP is a source of cash money for tribal population. In most of the markets in tribal areas, on market day natives carry head loads of available NTFP to the market. These are been sold to the local trader and the natives do their weekly market with the cash so obtained. These NTFPs pass through a series of value addition and are sold at substantially high rate to the consumers in urban areas. In NTFP collection, the issues observed are at three levels, namely: (i) primary producer or collector level; (ii) at intervention level; and (iii) at the NTFP sector level.

A.     Primary producers’/ collectors’ level

·          Small quantities at individual levels

·          Immediate requirement for cash, leading to distress sale

·          Low financial capacity to hold the produce and sale at remunerative price

·          Lack of technical know-how about processing, storage.

·          Poor infrastructure for storage/ processing.

·          High-end value NTFP not collected due to lack of proper price.

·          Limited collection of certain NTFPs due to non-availability of markets.

B.      At the intervention level (NGO)

·          Project based intervention with short time frame, focus on grant and less on business mode.

·          Lack of aggregation, the producer is limited to small number of SHGs/ producers- lack volume for trade as a result.

·          Next level of intervention i.e. packaging, branding, lack of know how and technical capacity of the agency to deliver etc not possible.

·          The organizations usually good in community mobilization but lack resources for quality control and developing potent market linkages.

·          Lack of proper planning, multiple product generation and diversification of the NTFP by the NGO. 

C.      At the NTFP Sector level

·          Exploitative extraction of NTFP from common resources.

·          Lack of sustainable harvesting practices.

·          Increasing biotic pressure on the NTFP resources, generating competition amongst the collectors

·          Lack of innovation and domestication of certain NTFP products.

·          Lack of strategic linkages with the market.

 

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