Khordhaଖୋର୍ଦ୍ଧା
22.5 lakh people. Larger than Bahrain, Estonia, or Mauritius. Governed as one cell of one state.
- Population
- 22,51,673 (22.5 lakh)
- Area
- 2,888 km²
- Headquarters
- Khordha
- Established
- 1993
₹34,893 cr
of bankable business potential identified by the government in Khordha.
Source: NABARD PLP 2023-24
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NABARD's plan for Khordha · PLP 2023-24
₹34,893 crof bankable credit potential identified by the government
Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME)
₹19,701 cr
Export credit
₹5,625 cr
Others
₹3,044 cr
Crop production, maintenance & marketing
₹2,002 cr
Khordha's 2023-24 credit plan sizes up total priority-sector lending potential at about ₹34,893 crore. The plan is heavily weighted toward business and industry: MSME alone is roughly ₹19,701 crore (about 56%), while all of agriculture and allied activities comes to about ₹4,291 crore (about 12%). The rest is spread across export credit (₹5,625 cr), housing (₹1,969 cr) and other priority lending.
Because Bhubaneswar, the state capital, sits in this district, Khordha is unusually urban and industrial. Many manufacturing units have come up in the Bhubaneswar-Khordha cluster, and Bhubaneswar is also an IT/software and higher-education hub, which is why MSME dominates. Handloom and handicraft work employs a large section of people and drives the big export-credit number.
On the farm side, the strongest opportunities are horticulture and plantation crops (₹331 cr), dairy (₹243 cr) and farm machinery (₹190 cr), helped by nearby research institutes (OUAT, CIFA, CHES, CTCRI). Market proximity has pushed commercial poultry, dairy and fisheries, the last anchored by Chilika Lake and the coast. Food and agro-processing potential is about ₹367 cr, with 82 processing units already running.
The plan's own flagged gaps: too little assured irrigation, no gram-panchayat soil-testing, a yield gap needing better technology, too few cold-storage and godown facilities (causing distress sales), thin ground-level veterinary services, and a handloom sector held back by weak marketing and raw-material supply.
What the plan promotes
- Paddy is the dominant crop (110623 ha, 243798 MT in 2015-16); other main crops are pulses (black gram, green gram), oilseeds (groundnut, mustard) and vegetables (potato, onion) grown by marginal and small farmers who hold about 98% of farmland (avg holding 0.79 ha)
- Plantation & Horticulture is the single biggest agri term-loan line at ₹331.38 cr; district hosts Central Horticulture Experiment Station (CHES) and Central Tuber Crop Research Institute (CTCRI)
- Dairy (₹243.46 cr) and poultry (₹106.98 cr) are strong: market proximity to Bhubaneswar has prompted organised commercial dairy, poultry and fisheries; 32 dairy cooperative societies and poultry hatcheries in the district
- Fisheries potential ₹105.02 cr (marine, inland, brackish water) anchored by Chilika Lake, Bay of Bengal coast and ICAR's Central Institute of Fresh Water Aquaculture (CIFA)
- Food & agro processing potential ₹366.61 cr; 82 rice/flour/dal/oil/tea processing units and scope for processing paddy, maize, pulses, vegetables, spices, poultry feed and milk products
- MSME is the biggest sector at ₹19701 cr as many industrial units have come up in the Bhubaneswar-Khordha urban cluster; Bhubaneswar is also an IT/software and education hub of eastern India
Gaps the plan names
- Low assured irrigation: need to increase area under assured irrigation by completing all ongoing major, medium and minor irrigation projects
- Weak soil-health support: provide soil testing facility at gram panchayat level and issue soil health cards to farmers
- Yield gap between potential and actual yield at farmer level; needs adoption of improved technology and farm practices, plus crop diversification from traditional to high-value demand-based crops
- Shortage of scientific storage structures (godowns, cold storage) forcing distress sale; storage to be created by private investment and dairy/horticulture infra via RIDF funds
- Weak ground-level veterinary services; need additional para-veterinarians plus farmer training and skill development
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What the plan promotes
- Paddy is the dominant crop (110623 ha, 243798 MT in 2015-16); other main crops are pulses (black gram, green gram), oilseeds (groundnut, mustard) and vegetables (potato, onion) grown by marginal and small farmers who hold about 98% of farmland (avg holding 0.79 ha)
- Plantation & Horticulture is the single biggest agri term-loan line at ₹331.38 cr; district hosts Central Horticulture Experiment Station (CHES) and Central Tuber Crop Research Institute (CTCRI)
- Dairy (₹243.46 cr) and poultry (₹106.98 cr) are strong: market proximity to Bhubaneswar has prompted organised commercial dairy, poultry and fisheries; 32 dairy cooperative societies and poultry hatcheries in the district
- Fisheries potential ₹105.02 cr (marine, inland, brackish water) anchored by Chilika Lake, Bay of Bengal coast and ICAR's Central Institute of Fresh Water Aquaculture (CIFA)
- Food & agro processing potential ₹366.61 cr; 82 rice/flour/dal/oil/tea processing units and scope for processing paddy, maize, pulses, vegetables, spices, poultry feed and milk products
- MSME is the biggest sector at ₹19701 cr as many industrial units have come up in the Bhubaneswar-Khordha urban cluster; Bhubaneswar is also an IT/software and education hub of eastern India
Gaps the plan names
- Low assured irrigation: need to increase area under assured irrigation by completing all ongoing major, medium and minor irrigation projects
- Weak soil-health support: provide soil testing facility at gram panchayat level and issue soil health cards to farmers
- Yield gap between potential and actual yield at farmer level; needs adoption of improved technology and farm practices, plus crop diversification from traditional to high-value demand-based crops
- Shortage of scientific storage structures (godowns, cold storage) forcing distress sale; storage to be created by private investment and dairy/horticulture infra via RIDF funds
- Weak ground-level veterinary services; need additional para-veterinarians plus farmer training and skill development
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Raw output sold cheap, value added elsewhere — each gap below is an opening for a local business.
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About Khordha
Khordha district is an administrative district of the state of Odisha, India. It was formed on April 1, 1993, by the division of former Puri District into Puri, Khordha and Nayagarh districts. In the year 2000 the district name was changed to Khordha. The district headquarters is Khordha Town. The capital city of Bhubaneswar is located in this district. Khordha is the most urbanized of all the districts of Odisha.
Source: Wikipedia — Khordha district
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