Peren

What the plan promotes

• ▸Crop production is the single biggest opportunity at ₹15.10cr — Peren's fertile foothill valleys grow Rice, Maize, Potato, Ginger and Rapeseed/Mustard, with Jalukie Valley known as the 'Rice Bowl of Nagaland'.
• ▸Term loans for animal husbandry dominate allied credit: Sheep/Goat/Piggery ₹4.29cr, Poultry ₹0.89cr and Dairy ₹0.84cr — thrust areas given the local food habit and demand for meat, fish and dairy.
• ▸Plantation & horticulture (incl. sericulture) ₹1.29cr — farmers have taken up Pineapple, Yam, Beans, Ginger, Banana, Tea and Rubber alongside traditional crops.
• ▸Food and agro processing ₹1.16cr plus vermicomposting ₹0.19cr — value-addition to supplement the district's agrarian base.
• ▸Dairy and Fishery FPOs should be promoted to meet domestic demand for meat, fish and dairy products, with KCC credit extended for working capital.
• ▸Textile (handloom) and handicrafts — part of the district's cultural heritage; weavers and artisans in rural areas can cater to niche markets, funded via the SHG/JLG route.

Gaps the plan names

• ▸Lack of irrigation facilities that compels subsistence agriculture and traditional cultivation methods.
• ▸Absence of storage, processing and regulated markets, with transportation and marketing bottlenecks — no warehouses, cold storage, godowns or market sheds.
• ▸Community Land Holding system means ownership of cultivable land is not issued to farmers, so banks struggle to extend cultivation credit and hold back Ground Level Credit.
• ▸Industrially backward with no major industry/industrial estates; poor roads, telecommunication, educational institutes and hospital infrastructure.
• ▸Limited supply of improved breeds of cattle and pigs and concentrated feed, plus lack of technical/fertiliser inputs and extension services; State Govt to tap RIDF/NIDA to bridge these gaps.