Nandurbarनंदुरबार

What the plan promotes

• ▸Cotton is the dominant crop, followed by maize, soyabean, jowar, paddy, wheat, gram and sugarcane; crop loans alone carry Rs 849.75 cr of potential.
• ▸Dairy is the biggest allied opportunity at Rs 96.33 cr, with poultry Rs 29.04 cr and sheep/goat/piggery Rs 30.30 cr; good highway and rail links to Indore, Surat and Nasik give ready markets.
• ▸Plantation & horticulture (Rs 18.92 cr, +21.64%): farmers shifting to high-value crops, with mango area expansion Rs 4.30 cr, dragon fruit, shade-net vegetables and mushroom farming (Rs 2.25 cr each), and post-harvest grading/packing Rs 1.73 cr.
• ▸Agro-processing clusters around chilli processing, oil mills, dal mills and rice mills, helped by proximity to Gujarat; a new agro-processing cluster is proposed in Nandurbar block.
• ▸GI registration sanctioned for the district's red chilli and amchur (dried raw-mango flakes), with a chilli park planned by the State Government.
• ▸Industry built around a single MIDC at Navapur (a textile hub near Surat) plus a second industrial estate being developed at Bhaler; chilli powder and textiles are the major industrial outputs.

Gaps the plan names

• ▸Poorest bank-branch network in the State: about 22,000 people served per branch versus the state average of roughly 6,600, hampering every credit-linked initiative.
• ▸Difficult, hilly terrain in Dhadgaon, Akkalkuva and Taloda blocks drives heavy seasonal tribal out-migration; assured livelihoods are needed to arrest it, but few NGOs operate there.
• ▸Recurring drought and long dry spells in the rains, with the eastern part of Nandurbar and Shahada block in the scarcity zone and low groundwater potential.
• ▸Inadequate basic infrastructure: weak power supply, patchy mobile network and poor road connectivity hold back development.
• ▸Identified as the State's most climate-vulnerable and least-adaptive district under SAPCC, making climate-change adaptation a standing thrust area.