The Andhra Pradesh Scheduled Tribes Cooperative Finance Corporation Limited, Hyderabad was established in October 1976 and its area of operation is extended to the entire State of Andhra Pradesh.

The Commissioner of Tribal Welfare is the Ex-Officio Managing Director of the corporation and he is assisted by General Manager and other skeleton staff.

In the Districts of Srikakulam, Vizianagaram, Visakhapatnam, East Godavari, West Godavari, Khammam, Warangal, Adilabad, Srisailam and Nellore, the Project Officers of ITDA are looking after the work of TRICOR and in the remaining Districts except Mahabubnagar and Nalgonda the District Tribal Welfare Officers are looking after the TRICOR work. In the District of Mahabubnagar and Nalgonda the Project Officers of MADA are looking after the TRICOR work in capacity of Member Secretaries of District Level Committees headed by the District Collector as Chairman. The Member Secretary is assisted by a Senior Assistant / Senior Inspector of Cooperative Department.

TRICOR aims at providing financial assistance towards margin money to enable the poor Scheduled Tribe beneficiaries to mobilise the required institutional credit to take up the income generating economic activities. The margin money is provided to the extent of 20% of the unit cost of the scheme subject to a maximum limit of Rs.30,000/- with 4% interest. In order to provide assistance for taking up economic activities by the ST Beneficiaries, the Corporation aims at mobilising financial resources like subsidy from the agencies involved in the poverty alleviation programmes and institutional finance from Commercial Banks, Andhra Pradesh State Finance Corporation, Regional Rural Banks and Cooperative Societies.