Papum Pare
1.77 lakh people. Larger than the Seychelles, Monaco, or Vatican City. Governed as one cell of one state.
- Population
- 1,76,573 (1.77 lakh)
- Area
- 3,462 km²
- Headquarters
- Yupia
₹373 cr
of bankable business potential identified by the government in Papum Pare.
Source: NABARD PLP 2023-24
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NABARD's plan for Papum Pare · PLP 2023-24
₹373 crof bankable credit potential identified by the government
Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME)
₹259 cr
Term loans for agriculture & allied activities
₹40 cr
Crop production, maintenance & marketing (crop loan)
₹26 cr
Housing
₹19 cr
Papum Pare's NABARD credit plan for 2023-24 sees about Rs 373 crore in bankable opportunity. Unusually for the region, farming is the minority: agriculture and allied activities are only Rs 78 crore (about 21%), while small businesses (MSME) dominate at Rs 259 crore (about 69%) — most of that in and around the twin towns of Itanagar and Naharlagun, where trade and services cluster.
On the farm side, the biggest openings are orchard and plantation crops at Rs 18.3 crore (oranges, banana, pineapple, apple, walnut) and everyday crop loans of Rs 25.7 crore for paddy, maize and vegetables. Livestock is a real strength: dairy (Rs 6.1 crore), poultry (Rs 3.5 crore) and pig rearing plus goats (Rs 2.2 crore), with fish farming worth Rs 2.5 crore because local demand for fish outstrips supply. Agro-processing of fruit — apple, plum, walnut, orange, guava, jackfruit — carries Rs 4.8 crore and is the district's main value-add activity. The state's Atmanirbhar Yojana (now a Rs 310 crore programme covering farming, horticulture, livestock and fisheries) supports many of these.
The plan is honest about what holds the district back: poor road connectivity and unreliable power, transport and marketing bottlenecks, weak supply of improved cattle and pig breeds and feed, thin farm-extension services, and almost no industrial base. It urges using RIDF funds for basic infrastructure and grouping farmers and self-help groups into FPOs to reach markets.
What the plan promotes
- MSME is the dominant credit sector at Rs 259.06 cr (69.45% of the plan), split into term loan Rs 185.04 cr and working capital Rs 74.02 cr, driven by semi-urban business and service activity around Itanagar and Naharlagun
- Horticulture and plantation credit projected at Rs 18.34 cr, supporting oranges, banana, pineapple, apple, plum, walnut, guava, lemon and jackfruit; aromatic and medicinal/herbal plants encouraged
- Crop production credit of Rs 25.68 cr for paddy (36,309 MT), maize and vegetables, with crop diversification flagged as needing attention
- Animal husbandry has immense potential: dairy Rs 6.09 cr, poultry Rs 3.48 cr and sheep-goat-piggery Rs 2.16 cr, with pig rearing forming the backbone of supplementary farmer income
- Fisheries projected at Rs 2.53 cr to close a wide demand-supply gap for fish and fish seed in the district
- State-run Atmanirbhar Yojana (Krishi, Bagwani, Plantation, Pashupalan, Matsyapalan) scaled to Rs 310.00 crore allocation for 2022-23, having earlier backed 5,500 farmers and 600 SHGs with a Rs 120.00 crore front-end subsidy
Gaps the plan names
- Lack of proper connectivity and un-interrupted power supply across the district
- Transportation and marketing bottlenecks that make PLP targets challenging to achieve
- Limited supply of improved breeds of cattle and pigs, and shortage of concentrated feed for livestock
- Lack of extension services for farmers and allied-activity producers
- No major industrial production unit and industrially undeveloped base, limiting agro-processing scale
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What the plan promotes
- MSME is the dominant credit sector at Rs 259.06 cr (69.45% of the plan), split into term loan Rs 185.04 cr and working capital Rs 74.02 cr, driven by semi-urban business and service activity around Itanagar and Naharlagun
- Horticulture and plantation credit projected at Rs 18.34 cr, supporting oranges, banana, pineapple, apple, plum, walnut, guava, lemon and jackfruit; aromatic and medicinal/herbal plants encouraged
- Crop production credit of Rs 25.68 cr for paddy (36,309 MT), maize and vegetables, with crop diversification flagged as needing attention
- Animal husbandry has immense potential: dairy Rs 6.09 cr, poultry Rs 3.48 cr and sheep-goat-piggery Rs 2.16 cr, with pig rearing forming the backbone of supplementary farmer income
- Fisheries projected at Rs 2.53 cr to close a wide demand-supply gap for fish and fish seed in the district
- State-run Atmanirbhar Yojana (Krishi, Bagwani, Plantation, Pashupalan, Matsyapalan) scaled to Rs 310.00 crore allocation for 2022-23, having earlier backed 5,500 farmers and 600 SHGs with a Rs 120.00 crore front-end subsidy
Gaps the plan names
- Lack of proper connectivity and un-interrupted power supply across the district
- Transportation and marketing bottlenecks that make PLP targets challenging to achieve
- Limited supply of improved breeds of cattle and pigs, and shortage of concentrated feed for livestock
- Lack of extension services for farmers and allied-activity producers
- No major industrial production unit and industrially undeveloped base, limiting agro-processing scale
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About Papum Pare
Papum Pare district is an administrative district in the state of Arunachal Pradesh in India. As of 2011, it is the most populous district of Arunachal Pradesh.
Source: Wikipedia — Papum Pare district
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