https://www.jmseleyon.com/index.php/jms eleyon en-US Journal of Management and Science 2249-1260 https://www.jmseleyon.com/index.php/jms/article/view/958 <p>The Government of India established Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India Limited (TRIFED) a national level cooperative body under the administrative control of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs. Its primary goal is to institutionalize the trade of Minor Forest Produce and Surplus Agricultural Produce. India is home to the world's second-largest tribal population. There are 700 hundred schedule tribes spread over different states and union territories of the country. The population of scheduled tribes in the country as per census 2011 is 10.45 crore and thus Scheduled tribes constitute 8.6 % of the country’s total population. As per census 2011, total population of Chhattisgarh state is 2,55,45,198 out of which ST population is 78,22,902 which is 30.60% and total population of Madhya Pradesh is 7,26,26,809, out of which 1,53,16,784 is scheduled tribes’ population which constitute 21.1 %. The purpose of study is to explore the main role of TRIFED in economic development of tribals in central India and to assess the role of TRIFED in central India. This study is descriptive and analytical in nature based on secondary data for those various secondary sources is used. Data analysis was carried out using qualitative techniques such as content analysis. TRIFED has become an important institutional of promoting inclusive and sustainable socio-economic development of tribal people in Central India. Through merging the old knowledge and the new marketing, processing and value-chain building, TRIFED has managed to change the livelihoods of tribal populations relying on the minor forest produce and tribal crafts.</p> Sohit Kumar Pandey Nidhi Pandey Ashok Kumar Mishra Copyright (c) 2026-07-07 2026-07-07 16 3 1 8 10.26524/jms.16.21 https://www.jmseleyon.com/index.php/jms/article/view/972 <p>Considering the importance women play in farm production, this paper seeks to investigate the determinants of women farm labour participation by large and by agricultural training in Mezam, Cameroon. Data was collected from 398 farmers using a structured questionnaire and was analyzed using descriptive statistics and Binary logistic regression. On average 70.1% of women were into farm labour participation and 29.4% received agricultural professional training. The mean number of women into farm labor participation is further revealed to be higher for those with training than those with no training. The logistic regression results indicate that marital status, land ownership, farm experience, agricultural training and land size all have a significant and positively associated with women farm labour participation while Household size exhibits a significant but negatively associated participation. Education, crop production, financial status and access to credit are all insignificant. When decomposed by agricultural training, household size, crop production, access to credit and land ownership are positive and significant in influencing the likelihood of women farm labour participation. This finding concludes that, improvements in agricultural training, credit facilities and women access to land can significantly improve women farm labour participation and may contribute positively to farm production Mezam Divison. It is recommended that land reforms and laws should be in favour of female farmers to increase their access and ownership of land and female-agricultural training should be augmented.</p> Amangho Gaius Ndifongsah Mbu Daniel Tambi Nkiendem Felix Copyright (c) 2026 2026-08-27 2026-08-27 16 3 9 17 10.26524/jms.16.25