Presently 67 minor forest produce are being bought at assist value.
More than 4 occasions enhance within the variety of forest produce collectors in 4 years
Forest produce collectors elevated from 1.5 lakh to greater than 6 lakh
Chhattisgarh authorities can be buying Kodo, Kutki and Ragi at assist value.
Raipur, 20 September 2023
Unprecedented work has been performed in Chhattisgarh concerning employment, self-employment, higher administration of native assets and entrepreneurship growth. In the final 4 and a half years, the advantages of those schemes have reached the needy folks dwelling in rural areas and distant forest areas. As per the intention of Chief Minister Mr. Bhupesh Baghel, below the steerage of Forest Minister Mr. Mohammad Akbar, many vital works have been performed within the curiosity of the forest dwellers and tribals dwelling within the forest areas of Chhattisgarh. This is the explanation why 74 % of the nation’s minor forest produce is saved in Chhattisgarh.
In Chhattisgarh, within the curiosity of collectors, the variety of minor forest produce is being elevated from 7 to 67 at current. Principal Chief Conservator of Forest and Chief of Forest Force Shri V. Srinivas Rao mentioned that in consequence, the variety of collectors has elevated by greater than 4 occasions within the final 4 and a half years, within the 12 months 2018-19 the variety of collectors was 1.5 lakh, which has elevated to six lakh as we speak. A complete of 42 thousand metric tons of minor forest produce has been bought within the 12 months 2021-22, whereas this amount was 540 metric tons within the 12 months 2018-19. In this context, Managing Director State Minor Forest Produce Association Shri Anil Rai mentioned that Millet Mission can be being run to advertise minor grain crops in Chhattisgarh. Under this, Kodo, Kutki and Ragi are being bought at assist value.
Chhattisgarh is the biggest forest produce amassing state in your complete nation. In the final 4 and a half years, because of public welfare schemes of Chhattisgarh authorities, about 13 lakh tendu leaf collectors and 06 lakh forest produce collectors are getting extra earnings. In the curiosity of the collectors, the tendu leaf assortment charge has been elevated from Rs 2,500 to Rs 4,000 per normal bag, whereas tendu leaf assortment remuneration of Rs 2146.75 crore has been paid to the collectors over the past 4 years. Under the Shaheed Mahendra Karma Tendupatta Collector Social Security Scheme, help price Rs 71.02 crore has been supplied to 4692 beneficiaries within the curiosity of collector households.
Chhattisgarh can be the main state within the nation within the implementation of forest rights. The Chhattisgarh authorities has given the standing of agriculture to lac manufacturing and has additionally applied a scheme to supply short-term loans to lac producing farmers, because of which even the lac producing farmers have gotten financially sturdy as we speak.
