Yamunanagarयमुनानगर

What the plan promotes

• ▸Crop production is the largest single credit opportunity at ₹4180.68 cr; the district's land is 97% irrigated from groundwater, growing wheat (~93,000 ha), paddy (~84,000 ha) and sugarcane (~25,000 ha), and Yamunanagar produces about 25% of Haryana's sugarcane.
• ▸Dairy is the biggest allied opportunity at ₹379.47 cr, followed by poultry ₹144.59 cr; the district has a large buffalo (~2.18 lakh) and cattle base, 197 dairy cooperative societies and infrastructure like AI centres and milk collection centres on 9 milk routes.
• ▸MSME is worth ₹3290.00 cr (investment ₹1930.50 cr + working capital ₹1359.50 cr); Yamunanagar hosts Asia's largest plywood industry (feeding poplar and safeda/eucalyptus agro-forestry), ~430 metal units, chemicals/paper/petro-chemical clusters and India's largest railway workshop at Jagadhri that repairs ~500 wagons and 250 coaches.
• ▸Saraswati Sugar Mills, one of Asia's biggest and among the largest private-sector sugar mills, operates in the district with a crushing capacity of about 13,000 tonnes of cane per day.
• ▸119 Custom Hiring Centres have been established to help farmers with crop-residue management; under the Centre's in-situ crop-residue scheme up to 80% subsidy is available on farm machinery.
• ▸Forestry & wasteland development (₹89.23 cr) and food & agro-processing (₹182.15 cr) are strong: agro-forestry of poplar/eucalyptus supplies the plywood cluster, and 65 food/flour/dal/oil/tea processing units plus a sugar mill anchor processing.

Gaps the plan names

• ▸Farmers need much greater awareness of Farmer Producer Organisations and the benefits of joining them, and existing producer groups need strengthening.
• ▸Post-harvest infrastructure is short: farmers need food and agro-processing units, regular markets, cold storage and rural godowns; banks should assess and finance loan demand in identified potential blocks.
• ▸Renewable-energy infrastructure is needed to tap crop residue, city waste and bio-waste, both to supplement the district's deteriorating power situation and to reduce stubble burning.
• ▸Farmers lack easy access to soil- and water-testing laboratories, seed depots and marketing centres, which must be set up to raise productivity.
• ▸Most PACS have idle old sale centres and vacant land; the District Central Cooperative Bank should convert these into godowns on a PPP 'hub-and-spoke' model to add storage capacity and generate PACS income.