Nilam

Noneyꯅꯣꯅꯦ ꯄꯅꯥ

0.53 lakh people. Larger than Monaco or Vatican City. Governed as one cell of one state.

Population
52,509 (0.53 lakh)
Headquarters
Noney
ODOP: Banana
BananaOrangeBambooHill horticulture

₹72 cr

of bankable business potential identified by the government in Noney.

Source: NABARD PLP 2023-24

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Export-grade organic turmeric and ginger drying unit

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A drying-and-milling unit turning Noney's high-curcumin hill turmeric and ginger into export-grade dried slices and powder for D2C wellness brands and Spice Board-registered exporters — capturing several times the fresh-rhizome margin.

Capex
₹8–18 lakh
Payback
2.3 years payback
Risk
Moderate
MOVCD-NERSpice-Board

NABARD's plan for Noney · PLP 2023-24

₹72 crof bankable credit potential identified by the government

Crop production, maintenance & marketing

₹47 cr

MSME

₹9 cr

Term loans for agriculture & allied activities

₹8 cr

Agriculture infrastructure

₹4 cr

Noney district's NABARD credit plan for 2023-24 estimates about ₹71.53 crore of bankable lending potential. Farming and allied work dominates at roughly ₹60 crore (about 84%), with small business (MSME) at just ₹8.84 crore; everything else - housing, education, export, renewable energy and social infrastructure - is under ₹1 crore each.

The biggest single opportunity is everyday crop production and marketing at ₹46.63 crore, built around paddy plus oilseeds, maize, pulses, vegetables and potato, and fruit like pineapple, orange, banana, papaya and lemon. Animal husbandry is the plan's named growth area: pig, poultry and dairy rearing suit local food habits, and sheep-goat-piggery loans alone come to ₹1.87 crore. Plantation and horticulture including sericulture is the largest farm term-loan line at ₹3.08 crore. There is also room in food and agro-processing (₹1.17 crore), storage and cold-chain building (₹3.42 crore via the Agriculture Infrastructure Fund), and handloom, handicrafts and bee-keeping (139 bee-keeping societies in Noney). A Farmer Producer Organisation is being set up under the One District One Product approach.

The plan is blunt about what holds the district back: too much reliance on the monsoon and old cultivation methods, few storage or processing units, no regulated markets, transport and road bottlenecks, weak fertiliser and technical inputs, and a shortage of improved cattle and pig breeds. It also flags that the community land-holding system makes it hard for small farmers to get credit.

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What the plan promotes

  • Paddy is the main crop; other major crops are oilseeds, maize, pulses, vegetables and potato, with pineapple, orange, banana, papaya and lemon as leading fruit crops
  • Animal husbandry is a flagged thrust area for 2023-24 - piggery, poultry and dairy have huge potential given local food habits (sheep-goat-piggery term loans alone ₹1.87 cr for Noney)
  • Plantation & horticulture including sericulture is the biggest agri term-loan line at ₹3.08 cr for Noney
  • A Farmer Producer Organisation is being set up under the Centre's 10,000-FPO scheme, promoted along One District One Product lines
  • Post-harvest infrastructure push - warehouses, silos, cold chains and supply-chain services via the Agriculture Infrastructure Fund (storage/market-yard credit ₹3.42 cr for Noney)
  • Handloom and handicrafts flagged as having good growth potential; Noney has 32 handloom/weaving and 139 bee-keeping cooperative societies

Gaps the plan names

  • Heavy dependence on monsoon and traditional cultivation methods; poor irrigation and post-harvest infrastructure
  • Lack of storage and processing units, absence of regulated markets and market yards
  • Transportation bottlenecks and weak road/tele-communication connectivity across the hill terrain
  • Shortage of technical and fertiliser inputs and inadequate credit inputs to farmers
  • Limited supply of improved cattle and pig breeds, concentrated feed and extension services; need for feed-mixing plants, more AI coverage, hatcheries and fish-seed farms

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.

Banana: raw bunches → chips / flour / puree

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Raw 85%Processed 15%

Noney's hill banana is sold as raw bunches to traders, and a large share is lost to ripening and transport before sale. Vacuum-fried chips, banana flour and puree command several times the fresh-fruit price and travel well to urban retail. A local processing shed would convert the post-harvest glut into shelf-stable, branded product.

Orange: raw fruit → juice / squash / marmalade

Unverified
Raw 85%Processed 15%

Hill oranges leave the district as raw fruit at low farmgate prices, peaking in a short season. Cold-pressed juice, squash and marmalade extend shelf life and fetch a multiple of the raw price, while peel can feed an essential-oil side stream. A community juicing-and-bottling unit would let the belt sell processed citrus year-round.

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About Noney

Noney, also known as Longmai, is a town located in the western part of Manipur, India. It is 63 kilometres (39 mi) west of Imphal, the capital of the state of Manipur. Its population is almost entirely made up of Rongmei Naga. Previously known as a village, recently has been declared as one of the new district headquarters of Manipur and is separated from the existing Tamenglong District and now comprises Haochong, Khoupum, Nungba and the Longmai subdivision.

Source: Wikipedia — Noney

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