Kadmath
₹66 cr
of bankable business potential identified by the government in Kadmath.
Source: NABARD PLP 2022-23
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NABARD's plan for Kadmath · PLP 2022-23
₹66 crof bankable credit potential identified by the government
Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME)
₹23 cr
Crop production, maintenance & marketing
₹14 cr
Term loans for agriculture & allied activities
₹13 cr
Ancillary activities (incl. food & agro processing)
₹10 cr
Lakshadweep's 2022-23 credit plan sizes up about ₹66.13 crore of lending potential across all its inhabited islands, including Kadmat. This is a single combined plan for the whole Union Territory. Roughly 57% is farming and allied work (₹37.77 crore) and 35% is small business/MSME (₹23.19 crore).
The biggest concrete opportunities sit around the sea and the coconut. Fishing leads the term-loan list at ₹7.04 crore — tuna is the main catch, with an estimated 1 lakh tonnes of tuna and a similar amount of shark in the surrounding waters. Crop lending is ₹13.87 crore, almost all coconut, with the government pushing vegetable intercropping in coconut gardens. A standout new bet is seaweed farming, run mostly by women's self-help groups, which could yield about 30,000 tonnes of dry seaweed a year from just 1% of the lagoons. The whole territory is now certified 100% organic, and food and coconut/fish processing carries ₹9.94 crore of potential — Kadmat already has a coconut grating unit. As a declared No Industry District, small-business credit centres on coir, mat-making, boat-building and the growing dive-tourism trade, with a water-sports institute and tourist cottages on Kadmat itself.
The plan is blunt about what holds the islands back: only 8 of 180 SHGs borrow, there is no local scale-of-finance or credit committee, cold storage, freezers and jetties for fish are missing, and unreliable transport plus costly mainland-sourced inputs choke bigger investment.
What the plan promotes
- Coconut is the mainstay livelihood across the islands including Kadmat; total cropped area 2675 ha of 3220 ha; crop-production credit potential ₹13.87cr, with the Agriculture Dept pushing short-duration, drought/salinity-tolerant vegetable intercropping in coconut gardens
- Fisheries is the single biggest term-loan opportunity at ₹7.04cr; tuna is the main resource, with an estimated 1 lakh tonnes of tuna and a similar quantity of shark in the seas around Lakshadweep
- Large-scale seaweed farming being promoted as a women-SHG activity; the UT can produce ~30,000 tonnes of dry seaweed a year using just 1% of lagoon area, with training started for 10 women SHGs
- Lakshadweep declared 100% organic under Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (26 Oct 2020); the entire 32 sq km is certified organic, and FPO formation is flagged to improve marketing and price realisation
- Food & agro processing potential ₹9.94cr — Agro Processing ₹1.03cr, Fish Processing ₹2.70cr, Virgin Coconut Oil ₹2.32cr, Copra ₹0.70cr and Coconut-based Industry ₹0.62cr; a coconut grating unit already operates at Kadmat
- Animal husbandry term-loan potential: Poultry ₹1.24cr, Dairy ₹1.05cr, Sheep/Goat/Piggery ₹0.75cr; indigenous goat population ~46,490 and indigenous poultry ~164,540
Gaps the plan names
- Only 8 of 180 SHGs are credit-linked; groups are reluctant to borrow — urgent need for awareness campaigns by the Dept of Rural Development and banks to build credit linkage for business expansion
- Coconut monoculture overcrowding from poor palm spacing keeps intercropping adoption very low; the Agriculture Dept should survey island-specific crops and banks should introduce flexi credit for Homestead Farms
- No separate Scale of Finance and no DLTC for Lakshadweep — Ernakulam's SoF is borrowed for PLP projections; an urgent need for a dedicated DLTC in the UT
- Fish exports and marketing are choked by missing shore infrastructure — refrigerated vans, packing, crating and sorting facilities, cold storage, ice plants and jetties
- Being far from the mainland with limited land, agriculture depends on the mainland for all inputs (making them costly) and unreliable transport is a major bottleneck deterring big investment
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What the plan promotes
- Coconut is the mainstay livelihood across the islands including Kadmat; total cropped area 2675 ha of 3220 ha; crop-production credit potential ₹13.87cr, with the Agriculture Dept pushing short-duration, drought/salinity-tolerant vegetable intercropping in coconut gardens
- Fisheries is the single biggest term-loan opportunity at ₹7.04cr; tuna is the main resource, with an estimated 1 lakh tonnes of tuna and a similar quantity of shark in the seas around Lakshadweep
- Large-scale seaweed farming being promoted as a women-SHG activity; the UT can produce ~30,000 tonnes of dry seaweed a year using just 1% of lagoon area, with training started for 10 women SHGs
- Lakshadweep declared 100% organic under Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (26 Oct 2020); the entire 32 sq km is certified organic, and FPO formation is flagged to improve marketing and price realisation
- Food & agro processing potential ₹9.94cr — Agro Processing ₹1.03cr, Fish Processing ₹2.70cr, Virgin Coconut Oil ₹2.32cr, Copra ₹0.70cr and Coconut-based Industry ₹0.62cr; a coconut grating unit already operates at Kadmat
- Animal husbandry term-loan potential: Poultry ₹1.24cr, Dairy ₹1.05cr, Sheep/Goat/Piggery ₹0.75cr; indigenous goat population ~46,490 and indigenous poultry ~164,540
Gaps the plan names
- Only 8 of 180 SHGs are credit-linked; groups are reluctant to borrow — urgent need for awareness campaigns by the Dept of Rural Development and banks to build credit linkage for business expansion
- Coconut monoculture overcrowding from poor palm spacing keeps intercropping adoption very low; the Agriculture Dept should survey island-specific crops and banks should introduce flexi credit for Homestead Farms
- No separate Scale of Finance and no DLTC for Lakshadweep — Ernakulam's SoF is borrowed for PLP projections; an urgent need for a dedicated DLTC in the UT
- Fish exports and marketing are choked by missing shore infrastructure — refrigerated vans, packing, crating and sorting facilities, cold storage, ice plants and jetties
- Being far from the mainland with limited land, agriculture depends on the mainland for all inputs (making them costly) and unreliable transport is a major bottleneck deterring big investment
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