Non-Timber Forest Products: source of food, medicine, and livelihood

Even in the 21st century, the whole world faces the challenges of getting good- quality food, medicines and a sustainable livelihood based on nature. All are available in our forest in the form of non-timber forest products (NTFP). Therefore, keeping this in view, an attempt has been made to enumerate the common NTFP collected by tribal communities of Mayurbhanj district, Odisha, India. Survey was carried out during 2021-2022 and enumerated 15 common NTFP used by the Santhal community. Results revealed that all reported NTFPs have economic value. Therefore, the present study suggests to do value addition of enumerated NTFPs to get organic foods and medicines that could be useful to provide a livelihood.