**Author details**

Teki Surayya

*Environmental Issues and Sustainable Development*

*Forest dwellers microfinance required for various activities.*

**Purpose Score % of** 

*Source: field survey 2013–2014.*

**Table 4.**

**Atmakuru (Atmakur)Kurnool**

**Score**

**Pembi (Nirmal) Adilabad**

**Score % of** 

Subsistence 18 21.7 21 22.3 17 21.3 21.8 Health 22 26.7 26 27.7 19 23.8 26.0 Education 09 10.8 05 5.3 04 5.0 7.0 Pilgrim 10 12.0 13 13.8 12 15.0 13.6 Marriage 15 18.0 19 20.2 17 21.3 19.8 Others 9 10.8 10 11.7 11 13.6 12.0

**Score**

**Polavaram (Eluru) / West Godavari**

**Score % of Score**

**Mean value of study area**

**Name of the range**

the intended goal of providing subsistence requirements. Eco-friendly NWFPs value additions [11] necessitates eco-friendly technologies which will rendered numerous benefits including reducing environmental degradation, deforestation yet, enhanced income to the forest dwellers. Technological and Scientific research institutions may shoulder the responsibility for promoting conventional [12]

*Networking of NWFP processing, microfinance, EFT, logistics and infrastructure [10].*

Average amount of money required for FLCs in the study area for procuring food items to 3 square meals a day and for other daily needs, cloths etc., is INR 37533. Out of this INR 13665 is provided by agriculture and allied activities, next

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**Figure 1.**

NWFPs value addition techniques.

**6. Conclusions and suggestions**

Department of Commerce and Management Studies, Adikavi Nannaya University, Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh, India

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