Bharatiya Janata Party · Lok Sabha General Election 2024
Last updated 8 Jul 2026
“We will encourage innovative and technology-driven startups to initiate commercially viable and sustainable forest-based enterprises and value addition for forest produce. We will associate all eligible tribal self-help groups with Vandhan Vikas Kendra, FPOs, NRLM for scaling up the activities relating to minor forest produces and will be provided skill and entrepreneurial training.”
Minor-forest-produce livelihoods are being scaled through Van Dhan Vikas Kendras (VDVKs), the MSP for Minor Forest Produce scheme and TRIFED, linking tribal SHGs to value-addition, skilling and markets. VDVKs are being operationalised at scale, including 332 reported operational under PM JANMAN for PVTG communities and many more under the wider Van Dhan programme, with skill and entrepreneurial training and FPO/NRLM convergence. The pledge is being actively pursued but full association of all eligible SHGs and a mature startup ecosystem for forest produce is still developing. Partial.
MoTA accelerates Van Dhan Vikas Kendras for tribal forest-produce livelihoods (including under PM JANMAN), with training, business-plan and toolkit support for SHGs.
View sourceWe have established PM Kisan Samriddhi Kendras to provide all agricultural inputs and services as one-stop shops to our farmers. We will further expand the network of PM Kisan Samriddhi Kendras.
We have started using nano-urea to ensure continued soil fertility in Indian farmlands. We will further expand access to and encourage adoption of Nano Urea.
We have upgraded KVKs to provide digital solutions to our farmers. We will further upgrade all Krishi Vigyan Kendra into a one-stop centre for skill development.
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