🌱 NTFP/ Med. 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.
Vaidya Chikitsalay
An unique university 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. The Vaidya Chikitsalay OPD, initiated in September 2022, has gained popularity in recent months.
10.am to 4.pm
Tue, Wed and Friday
STRC, Gadchiroli
STRC Vaidya Chikitsalay now has a branch at 'Loyds Kali Ammal Hospital, Hedri' catering to communities in the southern blocks. STRC and Lloyds Infinite Foundation (Lloyds Metals) sign Memorandum of Understanding.
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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.
STRC Foundation Gadchiroli is now a registered Training Partner and Training Centre (as Acharya Chanakya Kaushalya Vikas Kendra)
Project sanctioned under
प्रमोद महाजन कौशल्य विकास व उद्योगजगता अभियान
STRC has been entrusted with with the following job roles :
1) Bamboo Work Artisan
2) Bamboo Grower
Detailed Project Report (DPR) on Vegetable Farming
Project in pipeline under
National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development
To enhance the income of small and marginal farmers by deploying low-cost technologies and adopting best practices.