Sustainable Income Generation for Rural Tribal People in Honey, Nuapada District of Orissa

Majorities of population in the area are dependent on minor forest produces for a living. The tribal communities adopt rudimentary method of honey collection, processing and marketing for generating subsistence income for sustaining their basic livelihood. The adopted method by the tribal people is unsustainable neither economically nor ecologically. The tribal people are neither exposed nor used to the improved method of honey collection, processing and marketing for sustaining their income generating activities. Further it is found that the tribals use to migrate outside their habitation under compulsion for a living.

Objective

Provide facilitating and enabling measures to the tribals to participate in the community participatory mode for sustainable income generation and value addition from the wild bee harvesting and honey collection, storage, processing, packaging and marketing.

Beneficiaries

Thirty-five tribal beneficiaries (Male: 29, and female: 06) from Talakot village of Nuapada District, Orissa.

Activity Interventions

• Institutionalization of activities with the formation of a cooperative, Maa Gadhian Cooperative Society, from among the identified beneficiaries
• Technical collaboration for training with Madhya Pradesh Vigyan Sabha, Bhopal, for providing training to the beneficiaries in honey
• Master Trainers Training in Scientific Extraction of Honey and Processing conducted at Madhya Pradesh Vigyan Sabha’s training field station at Patalkot village of Chindwar district (M.P.)
• Training in Scientific Extraction of Honey and Processing conducted for the beneficiaries at the village by Madhya Pradesh Vigyan Sabha’s Trainers
• Installation of Honey processing unit including sting proof dress, honey collection and packaging accessories and work-shed at the village
• Honey collection process is being continued by the beneficiaries