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With changing tribal lives all over the country, TRIFED is taking its plan of Tribal Empowerment to the next level drawing up plans to launch 200 TRIFOOD Projects, 3000 VanDhan Clusters to get almost 25 lakh tribals on the road to entrepreneurship.

For this  there was a virtual meeting held on 26th November 2020 to finalize the Goa Tribal Development Plan. 

Agenda of the meeting

To finalise the Tribal Development Plan for the state of Goa for the establishment of 25 Van Dhan Vikas Kendras, 1 Tribal food park, 2 showrooms in North and South Goa.

The proposed activities

• Setting up of 25 VDVKs in Goa
• Setting up of 25 procurement centres-cum-godowns; of 2 tertiary processing units (mega food parks/ tribal enterprises) and
• Two flagship retail outlets across the state.

The target is to identify 20 minor forest produces per VDVK.

TRIFED

• It was established in August 1987 under the Multi-State Cooperative Societies Act, 1984 by the Government of India as a National level Cooperative body. 
• Under the administrative control of the then Ministry of Welfare of India, TRIFED is mandated to ringing about socio-economic development of tribals of the country by institutionalising the trade of Minor Forest Produce (MFP) & Surplus Agricultural Produce (SAP) collected/ cultivated by them.

Source: PIB