What is TRIFED?
The Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India (TRIFED) came into existence in 1987.
It is a national-level apex organization functioning under the administrative control of Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Govt. of India.
TRIFED has its registered and Head Office located in New Delhi and has a network of 13 Regional Offices located at various places in the country.
What are the objectives of TRIFED?
The ultimate objective of TRIFED is socio-economic development of tribal people in the country by way of marketing development of the tribal products on which the lives of tribals depends heavily as they spend most of their time and derive major portion of their income.
What is the role and functions of TRIFED?
The approach of marketing development of tribal products envisages TRIFED’s role as a facilitator and service provider. The philosophy behind this approach is to empower tribal people with knowledge, tools and pool of information so that they can undertake their operations in a more systematic and scientific manner.
It involves capacity building of the tribal people through sensitization, formation of Self Help Groups (SHGs) and imparting training to them for undertaking a particular activity, exploring marketing possibilities in national as well as international markets, creating opportunities for marketing tribal products on a sustainable basis, creating a brand and providing other services.
What are the activities of TRIFED?
The activity of TRIFED is divided into two categories :
I . Minor Forest Produces(MFP) Development
1 . MFP Development
2 . MSP for MFPs
3 . R&D of MFPs
II . Retail Marketing Development
1 . Retail Marketing Development
2 . Handicraft / Handloom development Training
What are the recent initiatives by TRIFED?
1 . Van Dhan Yojna was launched on 14 April 2018, initially as a pilot project in Bijapur; Chhattisgarh under which a Van Dhan Vikas Kendra was set up to cater ten Self Help Groups of thirty tribal gatherers each.
The Ministry of Tribal Affairs with technical support from the TRIFED aimed to set up 30,000 such centres in the country with the basic motive of skill upgradation and capacity building of tribal gatherers as well as ensure marketability of their raw products by setting up primary processing and value addition facilities.
2 . TRIFOOD Scheme is a joint initiative of Ministry of Food Processing Industry, Ministry of Tribal Affairs and TRIFED. It promotes value addition to Minor Forest Produce.
3 . Tech for Tribals, an initiative of TRIFED supported by Ministry of MSME, aims at capacity building and imparting entrepreneurship skills to tribal forest produce gatherers enrolled under the Pradhan Mantri VanDhan Yojana(PMVDY).
