{"id":23775,"date":"2024-05-29T06:16:07","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T00:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=23775"},"modified":"2025-10-11T11:32:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T06:02:55","slug":"minor-forest-produce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/minor-forest-produce\/","title":{"rendered":"Minor Forest Produce"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Minor Forest Produce:\u00a0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>Scheduled Tribe and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers<\/strong> (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, or Forest Rights Act (FRA), defines \u2018minor forest produce\u2019 as any non-timber forest product of plant origin.<\/li>\n<li>This includes various items such as bamboo, brush wood, stumps, cane, tussar, cocoons, <strong>honey, wax, lac, kendu leaves, medicinal plants, herbs<\/strong>, roots, tubers and similar items.<\/li>\n<li>In simple terms, it encompasses all other forest products, <strong>excluding timber.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What is Kendu Leaf?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-the-kendu-leaf\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kendu Leaf<\/a> is called the <strong>green gold of Odisha<\/strong>. It is a nationalized product like Bamboo and Sal seed.<\/li>\n<li>It is one of the most important <strong>non-wood forest products of Odisha.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is also referred to as tendu leaf in some parts of the country and is used to roll tobacco into bidis (local cigarettes).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Production:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The states producing kendu leaves in India comprise mainly Madhya Pradesh, Chhatisgarh, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand, Gujarat, and Maharastra.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Odisha<\/strong> is the <strong>third-largest producer<\/strong> of kendu leaf after <strong>Madhya Pradesh<\/strong> and <strong>Chhattisgarh.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is a Tuber?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a specialized storage stem of certain seed plants. Tubers are usually short and thickened and typically grow below the soil.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/forests\/odisha-tribals-await-forest-department-nod-to-sell-kendu-leaf-worth-rs-34-lakh-96364\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Odisha tribals await forest department nod to sell kendu leaf worth Rs 34 lakh<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minor Forest Produce includes various items such as bamboo, brush wood, stumps, cane, tussar, cocoons, honey, wax, lac, kendu leaves, medicinal plants, herbs, roots, tubers and similar items.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23776,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23775","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\/23775","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=23775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}