NTFP/ Medicinal Plants & Other Livelihoods
Mandated to ensure deployment of good forest conservation and agriculture practices. Promote minor farm mechanization through low-cost tools and technologies and to ensure their wide spread adoption. To encourage establishment of community enterprise around non-timber forest produce leading to sustainable income generation. Conservation and scientific documentation of indigenous medicinal knowledge and promotion of traditional healers and healing practices through appropriate platforms.
STRC Vaidya Chikitsalay
A unique platform to promote traditional healers and their healing practices
The project aims to elevate status of the traditional healers and create a space for them to share their knowledge with the wider community.
STRC Vaidya Chikitsalay now has a branch at ‘Lloyds Kali Ammal Hospital, Hedri’ catering to communities in the southern blocks. STRC and Lloyds Infinite Foundation (Lloyds Metals) sign Memorandum of Understanding.
In Developing Stage …
Medicinal Plant Checklist of Gadchiroli Region
Key Projects Under Minor Forest Produce & Agri Allied
Collectivisation of Selected Forest Produce
NTFP collectivization project at Kharkadi, Dhanora is a community- led project for a 10 village cluster catering to 283 house holds aimed at generating sustainable livelihoods through scientific collection of 05 commercially important forest produce employing good storage practices, primary processing, and marketing.
Gondvan Vanaushadhi Ropvatika
An experimental Community Herbal Plant Nursery has been initiated at Kharkhadi, Dhanora, is being implemented in a PPP mode. The nursery dedicated to propagate commercially important, rare, endangered, and threatened medicinal plants species, promises to foster both ecological sustainability and economic benefits for the local community through a revenue generation model for the locals through trade of saplings.