The Kendu Leaf Trade: Problems & Prospects in Orissa - Vasundhara

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Not only the procurement of KL, but the bush cutting operations done to ensure better production also provides employment to the local people. Decrease in procurement or closure of phadis can directly have an adverse impact on all such kinds of employment opportunity. In fact, the government ordered in 2005 to increase the earlier proposed target(0.25 lakh quintals) for phal production to 0.50 lakh quintals so that the poor pluckers of concerned tribal areas would not suffer financially from stopping KL operations all of a sudden(vide approved minutes of the KLCC meeting for 2005 crop year). Instances from the Navarangpur KL Division suggest that irregularities in the procurement (like, temporary suspension) may result in the weakening of the pluckers workforce because the uncertainties may divert them to other kinds of employment opportunity. Since KL plucking is a kind of skilled or semi-skilled job, pluckers’ disinterest in the collection of KL is not a matter to be ignored particularly in view of the quality crisis in our production. 8.The crisis of exaggerating the situation: While some authorities the KL wing and/or OFDC seem to be increasingly taking refuse under the crisis in the bidi market in order to escape the blame on their own negligence and malpractices, the case of significantly high transaction of smuggled leaves indicates that such an excuse can not be granted so easily. The following charts would indicate that although the bidi industry as a whole appears to have suffered some set back, the impact of the current crisis in the industry has not been uniform. For instance, the trend in the total production of G.C.Shaha, manufacturers of the reputed brand Meghna Bidi, has not been the same as compared to that of some of its major counterparts in western Orissa, as seen in charts 7-10: Chart-7 Bidi production by G.C.Shaha in Orissa Production in numbers 1800000000 1600000000 1400000000 1200000000 1000000000 800000000 600000000 400000000 200000000 0 Production in unit- 1(Badmal) Production in unit- 2(Ganesh nagar) Production in unit- 3(Sambalpur) Total production in three units 1996-97 1997-98 1998-99 1999-2000 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 Year (based on data provided by Central Excise & Customs) 21
Chart-8 Bidi production by M/S. Ceejay Tobacco Bidi production in numbers 700000000 600000000 500000000 400000000 300000000 200000000 100000000 0 1996-97 1998-99 2000-01 2002-03 2004-05 Production in Jharsuguda range Production in Sambalpur range(unit-1) Production in Sambalpur range(unit-2) Year (based on data provided by Central Excise & Customs) Chart-9 Bidi production by M/S.Manilal Dayalji & Co. 300000000 Production in numbers 250000000 200000000 150000000 100000000 50000000 0 Production in Jharsuguda range Production in Sambalpur range 1996-97 1997-98 1998-99 1999-2000 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 Year (based on data provided by Central Excise & Customs) 22
Page 1 and 2: The Kendu Leaf Trade: Problems & Pr
Page 3 and 4: A keri of kendu leaves. The colour(
Page 5 and 6: Contents Kendu leaf: an introductio
Page 7 and 8: List of annexure 1. Gradation of Ke
Page 9 and 10: The Kendu Leaf Trade: Problems & Pr
Page 11 and 12: 4.Livelihood dependency of KL pluck
Page 13 and 14: The cost of processing is compensat
Page 15 and 16: Chart-1 Forms of tobacco consumptio
Page 17 and 18: manufactured in coastal Orissa . M.
Page 19 and 20: One can further see from the two fo
Page 21: 7.Implications of the crisis: While
Page 25 and 26: Chart-12 Total production of bidi b
Page 27 and 28: production accounts for less than 1
Page 29 and 30: • There is a bumper crop. • The
Page 31 and 32: This is obviously because Orissa ha
Page 33 and 34: The Orissa Kendu Leaves Purchasers
Page 35 and 36: Total export to SL & Pak. and the s
Page 37 and 38: In Kadamdihi phadi under Kadamdihi
Page 39 and 40: manufacturers prefer bundles of les
Page 41 and 42: feeling in bidi smoking. And this h
Page 43 and 44: 9..3..2: Non-smoking utilities: It
Page 45 and 46: increased target for phal productio
Page 47 and 48: of this kind has been done in many
Page 49 and 50: though the intention behind such re
Page 51 and 52: ANNEXURE 50
Page 53 and 54: Year Annexure-2 Production, deliver
Page 55 and 56: Year Annexure-6 Sale value of KL To
Page 57 and 58: Annexure-10 Export of KL by Nationa
Page 59 and 60: Annexure-13 Qualitative production
Page 61 and 62: concurrent lease has not been grant
Page 63 and 64: Annexure-19 Media’s concern over
Page 65 and 66: Annexure-21 Concern over the implic
Page 67 and 68: Annexure-23 Media concern over the
Page 69 and 70: Annexure-25 Media concern over the
Page 71 and 72: (Note: The above matter was publish
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Annexure-27(contd.) Letter of M/S.
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