{"id":11599,"date":"2023-06-06T03:51:42","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T22:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=11599"},"modified":"2025-03-30T03:34:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T22:04:57","slug":"van-dhan-vikas-kendras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/van-dhan-vikas-kendras\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Dhan Vikas Kendras"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Van Dhan Vikas Kendras:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>Ministry of Tribal Affairs<\/strong> and <strong>Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India (TRIFED)<\/strong> launched the <strong>Van Dhan scheme<\/strong> in 2018 to improve tribal income through the value addition of tribal products.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Van Dhan Vikas Kendra Clusters<\/strong> provide the Van Dhan Vikas Kendras economies of scale, livelihood and market linkages, as well as entrepreneurship opportunities to Tribal forest gatherers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key Facts about Mahua Tree<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is mainly cultivated or harvested in the wild in Southern Asia for its edible flowers and oil seeds.<\/li>\n<li>It is commonly known as madh\u016bka, madkam, mahuwa, Butter Tree, mahua, mahwa, mohulo, Iluppai , Mee or vippa chettu.<\/li>\n<li>It is a frost resistant species that can grow in marginal <strong>areas of dry tropical and subtropical forests <\/strong>up to an altitude of 1200-1800 m.<\/li>\n<li>It can be found scattered in pastures, in crop fields in central India, and on rivers banks in semi-evergreen forests.<\/li>\n<li>It grows well where annual <strong>rainfall is between 500 mm to 1500 mm<\/strong>, and where temperatures are in the range of 2-46\u00b0C.<\/li>\n<li>It requires <strong>loamy or sandy-loam soils<\/strong> with good drainage and also occurs on shallow stony, clayey and calcareous soils.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is a Tribe?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>A tribe is typically a close-knit community that has its own distinct traditions, customs, language, and often resides in a specific geographic region.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/governance\/these-odisha-tribal-women-earn-big-with-mahua-ladoos-89825\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>These Odisha tribal women earn big with mahua ladoos<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Tribal Affairs and Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India (TRIFED) launched the Van Dhan scheme<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11599","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}