Dausaदौसा

What the plan promotes

• ▸Crop loans dominate the plan at Rs 1707.86 Cr (50% of the whole PLP) — wheat is the main rabi crop (irrigated wheat Rs 490.11 Cr) and bajra the main kharif crop (Rs 417.00 Cr) across a 1,77,687 ha irrigated area; mustard, gram, groundmnut, jowar, guar and taramira are the other main crops.
• ▸Vegetable cultivation is a flagged growth area — the PLP urges expanding vegetables given small landholdings and closeness to Jaipur and Delhi markets, backed by drip/greenhouse packages (drip 2 ha Rs 19.95 Cr, greenhouse 4000 sqm Rs 25.50 Cr).
• ▸Dairy development is the largest allied term-loan line at Rs 110.93 Cr; the district has 5.26 lakh buffaloes and milk output around 285 MT/day, with 51 new milk routes and 2,500 new dairy co-ops planned under Rajasthan's dairy scheme.
• ▸Food & agro-processing potential of Rs 111.28 Cr — flour/dal mills, fruit-and-vegetable processing, dairy-product units and cold-chain/cold-storage; PM-FME (micro food processing) and the Rajasthan Food Processing Mission add grant support, and 11 mini food parks (incl. Chainpura, Niwai) are planned in the region.
• ▸MSME is the second-largest block at Rs 401.59 Cr — Dausa's craft clusters (carpet, stone carving/patthar nakkashi, leather footwear, terracotta, murtikala) supply domestic and export demand; NABARD wants new clusters and more artisan/self-employment credit cards.
• ▸Micro-irrigation and water harvesting: all 6 blocks are over-exploited for groundwater, so the PLP pushes drip/sprinkler, farm ponds and greenhouses — the water-resources term-loan line is Rs 94.53 Cr.

Gaps the plan names

• ▸Storage shortfall: only 47,200 MT capacity in 159 godowns and 04 mandis for a district with rising crop and onion output — the PLP calls for cold storage, warehouses and onion storage/processing units, plus renovation of unusable village-society godowns.
• ▸Severe groundwater stress: all 6 development blocks are 'over-exploited', irrigation depends on wells/tubewells, so the plan urges rainwater harvesting, farm ponds, anicuts and drip/sprinkler micro-irrigation to be scaled up.
• ▸Weak seed supply and low organic-input use: certified/improved seed meets only a small share of demand, and awareness of bio-fertiliser, vermicompost and bio-pesticides is low, degrading soil fertility from over-use of chemical fertiliser.
• ▸Agro-processing and export base is thin: industrial units exist but few are agriculture-based export units, so large food-processing and packaging/waxing/cold-chamber units are needed to add value and reach export markets.
• ▸Only 04 mandis are on e-NAM and farmers/FPOs need to be registered; community godowns at village-society level and NWR financing must be promoted so growers can store and sell at better prices instead of distress-selling to traders.