Abstract : Small-scale forest-based enterprises, many of which rely on NTFPs, provide up to half the income to about 25 per cent of India’s rural labour force (Tiwari and Campbell 1995) & generates 10 million workdays annually (IIFPT report). However, a major quantum of NTFP commodities is often sold in the raw form that does not generate remunerative price for the collectors. This is further compounded by inadequate institutional mechanism to discover fair price by the collectors, lack of collective bargaining, weak support system & suboptimal access to timely capital & technology. The limiting factors cause the collectors to operate at the lower end of the NTFP value chain. Towards this end, the study has tried to capture a case study on 1500 women-led farmer producer company in tribal dominated Ranibandh block of Bankura that is striving to move up the value chain by plugging the above-mentioned gaps & collective marketing.
Keywords : NTFP, Sal leaf, biodegradable, Value chain, West Bengal
Cite : Gupta, D. S., Jha, A., & Paul, T. (2024). Creating Enterprise For Forest Dependent Communities: Case Study Of Sal Leaf Collectors (1st ed., pp. 40-52). Noble Science Press. https://doi.org/10.52458/9788196919535.nsp2024.eb.ch-04
