Sudhir Prasad The above figure explain that Chatra, Garhwa, Palamu, Hazaribag Kodarma, East Singhbhum district has more than 40% of geographical area as forest cover. Beside this, these districts are monocrop or no crop area. Chatra, Garhwa, Palamu are drought prone districts and virtually no agriculture practice is possible there. These districts are highly Maoists affected. 7.3 Hindiakala village fall under Chatra district where after the death of Birhors, the officials of district were not allowed to visit that village. Many other districts of Jharkhand such as Latehar, Lohardaga, Simdega are of the same nature. 7.4 The only livelihood programme which is possible in these districts has to be based on forest. Therefore, if we want to give livelihood support to the poor people of Jharkhand we must have a policy focussed on the development and value addition of MFP. There is an urgent need of a policy for the Socio-economic upliftment of tribals of Jharkhand. The yojna may be implemented through JHAMFCOFED and Forest Development Corporation with the participation of tribals men and women. 8.0 The district of Chatra, Garhwa, Palamu are among the poorest districts of the State and these are the district which have highest forest cover. In other words poverty is directly proportional to the forest cover. Rich lands with poor people. What a paradox. 8.1 In Jharkhand, the State Forest Development Corporation was doing the trading of Sal Seed, Harra Seed, Bahera Seed, Mahulan leaf and Mahulan Chop as an agent of the State Government. Due to various reasons like lack of fund, entrepreneurship and timely action resulted in poor or no collection of these MFP. 8.2 These MFP is purchased by the traders and they take it away from Jharkhand. The processing plants are out of Jharkhand. So the tribal of Jharkhand does not get the benefit. Sal extraction plants, medicine factory, producing Chayanpras etc all are processed out of State. 9.2 As per the above table the quantities of Tamarind, Mahua and Sal seeds is 2 lakh tone, 2 lakh tone and 1 lakh tone respectively in a season. There is virtually no value addition done to such a huge quantity of natural resource. 9.3 To give an example what a value addition can do in terms of economy. In the case of horticulture product, the value addition is as follows:- (1) Potato to Potato chips -