The Union Government will introduce minimum support price (MSP) for the minor forest produce sold by tribal people, according to Prakash Javdekar, Union Minister of State for Environment and Forest.
Addressing presspersons in Mangaluru on Thursday, he said that for the first time after independence tribal people will get minimum support price for their forest produce.
Terming it as a big revolution, he said it was completely a market of exploitation. “We are converting it into a system of MSP where tribal people will be given justice,” he said.
Explaining his stint as a banker in the seventies, Javdekar said he knows how the exploitation takes place while selling the minor forest produce. That is why the new system of minimum support price will be extended to minor forest produces, he added.