Chhattisgarh Forest Department

NWFP Certification

Furthermore, Mr. Kinhal focused on the need to regulate the trade in medicinal plants and explained that the regulation should further ensure that –  

• Permitted species are collected under a management system that creates a feeling of accountability and stake in sustainable harvest, in the local community and primary collectors.  

• Good Trade Practices (GTPs) are followed in their collection i.e., a fair price has been paid to primary collectors and a fair cess to the State Forest Department.  

Mr. Kinhal also expressed his views on regulation in the context of conservation.  According to his views:  

• Regulation should mean continuation of NTFP related activities in a stipulated pattern with clear knowledge about the sustainable levels, periods of harvest and equitable distribution of benefits.

• A more pragmatic regulatory regime will be one, which takes into account the needs of the rural poor who live closest to the resources, being within the conservation needs of species.  

• ACCENTUATE CONSERVATION  

Mr. Kinhal elaborated on regulation in the context of conservation: 

•  State Forest Departments have regulatory mechanisms at 3 levels of handling of forest produce viz.

- Insitu  

- In transit  

- Storage  

- These regulations adopt the same definition of 'not to harvest' and 'not to use' any forest produce, from the wild without valid permission.  

  He highlighted the current regulatory framework diagrammatically.