Krishnaకృష్ణా
45.2 lakh people. Larger than Kuwait, Mongolia, or Qatar. Governed as one cell of one state.
- Population
- 45,17,398 (45.2 lakh)
- Area
- 8,727 km²
- Headquarters
- Machilipatnam
₹19,638 cr
of bankable business potential identified by the government in Krishna.
Source: NABARD PLP 2023-24
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NABARD's plan for Krishna · PLP 2023-24
₹19,638 crof bankable credit potential identified by the government
Crop production, maintenance & marketing
₹8,449 cr
MSME
₹4,495 cr
Term loans for agriculture & allied activities
₹3,306 cr
Housing
₹1,936 cr
NABARD's Potential Linked Credit Plan for Krishna district (2023-24) sizes the district's bankable opportunity at about Rs 19,638 crore. Agriculture and allied activities take the lion's share at roughly Rs 12,346 crore (about 63% of the plan), while micro, small and medium enterprises come second at about Rs 4,495 crore (around 23%).
Krishna is a coastal delta district headquartered at Machilipatnam, irrigated by the Prakasam Barrage canals, so the opportunities cluster around water and land. For an entrepreneur, three clusters stand out. First, plain farming and the food chain behind paddy: crop loans alone are worth about Rs 8,449 crore, with food and agro processing adding another Rs 265 crore. Second, livestock and the sea: fisheries lead the term-loan list at about Rs 1,092 crore, dairy at about Rs 812 crore and poultry at about Rs 470 crore. Third, the district's well-known crafts and small industry — Handloom, Kalamkari art printing, 1-gram jewellery and Bandar Laddu — sit inside an MSME pool of about Rs 4,495 crore.
The PLP's own complaint: salinity and water-logging in the delta keep hurting crops, saline water creeps in through the backwaters, post-harvest storage and animal-husbandry institutions are only partly built, and upland fields still lack assured irrigation. Anyone building here should plan around storage, cold chain and water management from day one.
What the plan promotes
- Crop production credit of Rs 8449.34 cr, anchored on paddy across the Krishna delta irrigated by Prakasam Barrage canals (net sown area 2.03 lakh ha, 53.8% of the district).
- Fisheries is the single biggest term-loan opportunity at Rs 1092.02 cr — the coastal district fronts the Bay of Bengal with active fish/prawn culture.
- Dairy at Rs 812.41 cr and poultry at Rs 469.64 cr, both flagged as offering excellent employment to landless and marginal farmers; the profile counts 830 dairy cooperative societies and 950 milk collection centres.
- Food and agro processing of Rs 264.92 cr, with FPOs encouraged to take up value-addition using GoI, GoAP and NABARD subsidies plus NABSANRAKSHAN credit guarantee.
- MSME credit of Rs 4495.18 cr, with non-farm fame from Handloom, Kalamkari art printing, 1-gm jewellery and Bandar Laddu of Machilipatnam.
- Agriculture Infrastructure Fund post-harvest build-out of Rs 266.70 cr, including warehouses, godowns, silos and cold storage (storage line alone Rs 118.59 cr).
Gaps the plan names
- Salinity and water-logging in the deltaic aquifers — the PLP's headline constraint, needing coordinated action by Groundwater, Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Resources departments.
- Saline-water ingress through backwaters, calling for proper bunding of farmlands to protect crops.
- Incomplete post-harvest infrastructure — only 120 of the RIDF-sanctioned Animal Husbandry institutions completed, with many projects still pending and gaps to bridge.
- Upland areas lacking assured irrigation, requiring new Lift Irrigation schemes.
- Need for technology-based agri-startups for advanced weather forecasting and prescription of natural pesticides and bio-fertilisers to cope with chaotic climate-change conditions.
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What the plan promotes
- Crop production credit of Rs 8449.34 cr, anchored on paddy across the Krishna delta irrigated by Prakasam Barrage canals (net sown area 2.03 lakh ha, 53.8% of the district).
- Fisheries is the single biggest term-loan opportunity at Rs 1092.02 cr — the coastal district fronts the Bay of Bengal with active fish/prawn culture.
- Dairy at Rs 812.41 cr and poultry at Rs 469.64 cr, both flagged as offering excellent employment to landless and marginal farmers; the profile counts 830 dairy cooperative societies and 950 milk collection centres.
- Food and agro processing of Rs 264.92 cr, with FPOs encouraged to take up value-addition using GoI, GoAP and NABARD subsidies plus NABSANRAKSHAN credit guarantee.
- MSME credit of Rs 4495.18 cr, with non-farm fame from Handloom, Kalamkari art printing, 1-gm jewellery and Bandar Laddu of Machilipatnam.
- Agriculture Infrastructure Fund post-harvest build-out of Rs 266.70 cr, including warehouses, godowns, silos and cold storage (storage line alone Rs 118.59 cr).
Gaps the plan names
- Salinity and water-logging in the deltaic aquifers — the PLP's headline constraint, needing coordinated action by Groundwater, Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Resources departments.
- Saline-water ingress through backwaters, calling for proper bunding of farmlands to protect crops.
- Incomplete post-harvest infrastructure — only 120 of the RIDF-sanctioned Animal Husbandry institutions completed, with many projects still pending and gaps to bridge.
- Upland areas lacking assured irrigation, requiring new Lift Irrigation schemes.
- Need for technology-based agri-startups for advanced weather forecasting and prescription of natural pesticides and bio-fertilisers to cope with chaotic climate-change conditions.
Value-chain gaps
Money this district loses today
Raw output sold cheap, value added elsewhere — each gap below is an opening for a local business.
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About Krishna
Krishna district is a district in the Coastal Andhra region in Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, with Machilipatnam as its administrative headquarters. It is surrounded on the east by Bay of Bengal, west by Guntur, Bapatla and north by Eluru and NTR districts and south again by Bay of Bengal.
Source: Wikipedia — Krishna district
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