Forest business incubator - An innovative institution for business development in forestry and agroforestry sector in India

Parthiban, KT; Kumar, Nalini; Fernandez, Chlo

doi:10.36808/if/2020/v146i7/154251

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“…The interchange of forest, agricultural, and livestock goods in particular places is at the heart of the agroforestry market. The lack of well-established marketing organizations, market data, and uniform quality grades are just a few of the clear contrasts between agroforestry marketing and agriculture marketing, despite the latter's similarities (Parthiban et al, 2020) [44] . Despite these difficulties, agroforestry has several advantages, such as effective resource management, optimal output, higher agricultural revenue, market expansion, and the development of companies dependent on forests (Parthiban and Fernandaz, 2017) [43] .…”

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Agroforestry: socio-economic impact and future aspect

Mandal,

et al. 2024

Int. J. Res. Agron.

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Agroforestry has been used historically in India as a sort of subsistence farming, but it is now also being acknowledged for its benefits to the recently developed wood-based manufacturing sector from an economic perspective. A complete imbalance among demand and supply has been brought about by insufficient forest cover, inadequate productivity, and legal constraints, together with rising demand for wood and wood products due to growing populations, industries, and related policy changes. Through technological, organizational, and commercial initiatives, some organisations have led research by developing a value chain in industrialized agroforestry. Agroforestry has the ability to deliver food security, aid in the reduction of poverty, and contribute to ecosystem conservation through carbon absorption and conservation of soil. Despite its numerous benefits, agroforestry is still not widely used in rural areas, especially by smallholder farmers in developing nations. The lack of agroforestry in public policy makes it difficult to recognize this system's potential to address the climate problem and enhance rural livelihoods. The availability of a market support system for several types of plywood, pulp wood, lumber, and match wood had a big impact on farmers who grew trees. Similar to all other economic sectors, agroforestry is transitioning to a market economy and facing major modifications to its social, legal, fundamental, effective, and supply setups. To build effective and fruitful agroforestry systems and to maximize private and public investments in agroforestry, however, comprehensive economic research and analysis are required. This review gives a special emphasis on the current evidence depicting the characteristics of agroforestry adoption, its benefits and potential drawbacks, as well as challenges for the adoption in India.

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Agroforestry: socio-economic impact and future aspect

Mandal,

et al. 2024

Int. J. Res. Agron.

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“…However, this demanded creating business development opportunities to sustain the income and further employment generation activities. Accordingly, TNAU pioneered in establishing India's first agroforestry business incubator in 2018 and leveraged technology-based business development activities in the agroforestry sector and created significant attention among the value chain players [15]. The various support and services extended by the business incubator are presented in Figure 7.…”

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Industrial Agroforestry—A Sustainable Value Chain Innovation through a Consortium Approach

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Agroforestry has been practicedtraditionally in India in the form of subsistence farming, but is being increasingly recognized from the economic point of view, in addition to its positive contribution to the wood-based industrial sector, which has recent origin. Low forest cover, poor productivity and legal restrictions coupled with an increasing demand for wood and wood products due to increasing population, industries and associated policy changes have ushered in a total mismatch between demand and supply. This has attracted increasing attention towards agroforestry. The National Forest Policy of India 1988 has directed all wood-based industries to generate their own raw material resources by linking farmers and extending technology and market support. However, these directives were not taken seriously, and consequently, the achievements that should have taken place in industrial agroforestry and plantation establishment are dismally modest for want of suitable institutional mechanism to resolve the research gaps that exist in the entire Production to Consumption System (PCS). Against this backdrop, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) has pioneered research by creating a value chain in industrial agroforestry which was initially demonstrated in 200 ha of farmlands through technological, organizational and marketing interventions. Incorporationof high yielding short rotation (HYSR) clones, precision silviculture technology, adoption of multifunctional agroforestry and value addition technology are the major technological interventions that attracted more farmers towards agroforestry development. Conceptualization and successful practice of the contract tree farming model, particularly the quadripartite contract farming model, ensured institutional linkage among the value chain players and facilitated technology transfer, assured buy back, price support system and also institutional credit and insurance. The provision of a market support system for a wide range of pulp wood, plywood, timber, and match wood exerted a significant influence among tree-growing farmers. In order to sustain these value chain innovations and interventions, an institutional mechanism, namely the Consortium of Industrial Agroforestry (CIAF), was established in 2015, which linked all value chain players and aided in resolving the issues in the entire production to consumption system (PCS) of agroforestry on a sustainable basis. Over the years, these innovative interventions have had a significant impact in terms of area increase, productivity and profitability improvement coupled with safeguarding the social and environmental concerns of agroforestry farmers from a holistic perspective. The Consortium-based Value Chain on Industrial Agroforestry model has a very good replication potential not only within India, but also elsewhere across the global landscape.

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