Andhra Pradesh Scheduled Tribes Cooperative Finance Corporation Limited., Hyderabad (TRICOR) was established in October, 1976 with Registration No. T.A. 843 under A.P Cooperative Societies Act 1964 with Head Quarters at Hyderabad, and its area of operation extends over the entire state of Andhra Pradesh.

TRICOR aims at providing financial assistance towards margin money to enable the poorest of the poor Scheduled Tribe beneficiaries to mobilise the required institutional credit to take up the income generating economic activities.

The Corporation  aims at mobilising  financial resources like subsidy from the agencies involved in the poverty alleviation programmes and institutional finance from Commercial Banks etc.,

The   Poorest  of  the  poor  among  the  tribals  whose  annual income does   not  exceed  Rs. 22,000/-   per  annum shall be provided financial assistance for various Economic Support Schemes in Agriculture, Minor Irrigation, Horticulture etc.,