| Sanction Date: | 19.06.2020 | |||
| Project Category | MG | |||
| Year | 2020-2021 | |||
| Project Duration | 3 Years | |||
| BTA : | LOEG | |||
| Project Site/ State/ Districts/ Villages Covered: |
Nagaland |
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| Organization/ Implementation Agency: | Department of Botany, Nagaland University Lumami-798627, Nagaland | |||
| Project Partners: | S.No. | Name | ||
| 1. | Krishi Vigyan Kendras, Nagaland University, Lumami-798627, Nagaland. | |||
| 2. | Local communities and tribal women groups. | |||
| 3. | Asukhomi and Panti Village (target communities) | |||
| 4. | Neighbouring villages around the University. | |||
| 5. | Department of Botany, Nagaland University, Lumami-798627, Nagaland | |||
| Lead Proponent: | Dr. Asosii Paul |
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| Project Brief Description: | The North Eastern region (NER) of India is one of the biodiversity hotspots. Nagaland is a small state in the NER with a rich and varied heritage of biodiversity as well as ethnic tribes. The state has a forest cover of 8.63 lakh hectares (Government of Nagaland, 2017). For sustainable forestry, non-wood minor forest products including mushrooms and underutilized edible plants may be harvested in the forest without felling of the trees. Sale of minor forest products can generate income, resulting in profitability and positive economic impact. There is immense scope for minor forest products particularly wild edible mushrooms based industry in the state. Development of mushroom spawns, skill development trainings, awareness campaigns, etc can leads to development of the industry. The rich mushroom diversity provides huge socio-economic potential for the state. Their nutritional and medicinal values can be further exploited. Not much work has been carried out on inventory of minor forest products in Nagaland especially on wild mushrooms. Recently, some works have been initiated (Ao et al., 2016b; Deb et al., 2019a; b). Due to climate change, unsustainable collection and loss of forest cover, the biodiversity is depleting. As such continuing research and experiences gain will lead to emerging of technologies that can respond to the dual challenges of exploiting forest resources to raising economic levels while ensuring sustainable forest use. | |||
| Beneficiaries/ Stakeholders: | 1. Tribal women and SHGs of the targeted villages. |
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| Activity Chart (For 3 years) | Click Here | |||
| Total Grants (in Rs.) | Rs. 1,00,00,000 (Rupees: One crore only) | |||
| Project Objectives | Quantifiable Deliverables | Monitoring Indicators |
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• Survey, germplasm collection and cataloguing of wild edible mushrooms of Nagaland. • Documentation and database creation of wild edible mushrooms. • Screening for nutritionally and antioxidant rich species. • Developing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for mushroom spawns and mushroom cultivation of some selective popular/commercially viable wild species • Training of tribal women, SHGs in spawns and mushroom production techniques of some selective popular/commercially wild edible mushrooms. • Developing protocols for formulating products such as mushroom pickles, drying and packaging of dried mushrooms and training of tribal women and SHGs in production techniques. • Quality control check of products for proper marketing. |
• Inventory and documentation (database) of all 52 wild edible mushrooms of Nagaland. • Identification of species with commercial importance. • Ex-situ germplasm conservation of wild edible commercially viable mushrooms. • Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for mushroom spawns and mushroom cultivation of at least 11 selective popular/commercially viable wild species • Production of mushroom spawns and mushroom production of some selective popular/commercially viable species and distribution to trainees to start their own business. • Formulation of products from locally produced edible mushrooms such as mushroom pickles, canned and dried packed mushroom etc, • Regular training of tribal women, youth and SHGs in 10 villages withal least 200 ST beneficiaries. |
• Documentation (database) of wild edible mushrooms of Nagaland(No.) • Information of species with commercial importance (Nos) • No. of commercially viable mushrooms produced and distributed to trainees to start business • Formulation of products from locally produced edible mushrooms (Nos) • No. of Stakeholders benefitted (No. of Rural Youth, No. of Women, and Total No. of Beneficiaries) • Number of people to participate in training program(No.) • Other Publications and Knowledge Products (No.). |
| S.No. | Name (Sanctioned) | Qualification | Designation (Sanctioned) | Salary (Sanctioned) |
| 1. | 01 RA | @ Rs.47,000/- + HRA | ||
| 2. | 01 JPF | @ Rs.20,000/- + HRA | ||
| 3. | 01 Field Assistant/ Lab Assistant | Rs.9,500/- |
| S.No. | Name of Equipment (Sanctioned) | Use of Equipment/ Details | Cost (in INR) |
| 1. | Controlled environment chamber/ Growth chamber-01 nos. Rs.12 Lakh, Renovation of existing culture room Rs.3.00 Lakh, Ultrasonicator Extraction device Rs. 7.00 Lakh, BOD incubator Rs.5.00 Lakh and Autoclave Rs.2.00 Lakh. | 29,00,000/- |
