Gomatiগোমতী

What the plan promotes

• ▸Fisheries is the most popular allied activity of the district, with the highest term-credit potential among allied lines at ₹15.99 cr; the district has 46 fishery cooperative societies across its blocks.
• ▸Dairy has grown into a major economic activity after an assured milk route was opened via an FPO at Bagma; the BMC procures milk through twenty decentralised 100-litre solar hybrid milk freezers for supply to a private processing unit at Agartala.
• ▸Formation of Farmers Producer Organisations under the GOI 10,000-FPO Central Sector Scheme has been initiated, promoted along the 'One District One Product' line.
• ▸Post-harvest infrastructure — warehouses, silos, cold chains and supply-chain services — to be built through the Agriculture Infrastructure Fund as the highest priority for doubling farmer incomes.
• ▸Piggery, poultry and dairy carry huge potential given local food habits; thrust is on projects that create infrastructure supporting integrated farming.
• ▸Handloom and handicrafts are the flagged non-farm growth cluster, backed by MSME potential of ₹288.08 cr (₹174.33 cr investment + ₹113.75 cr working capital).

Gaps the plan names

• ▸Dependence on monsoon and traditional cultivation methods, with inadequate technical and fertiliser inputs and limited credit reach.
• ▸Lack of storage and processing units, absence of regulated markets and transportation bottlenecks that hold back post-harvest handling.
• ▸Fragmented, very small and un-mutated land holdings block marginal farmers' access to credit and slow KCC saturation.
• ▸Limited supply of improved breeds of cattle and pigs, shortage of concentrated feed and weak extension services for the allied sector.
• ▸Need for soil conservation, seed farms for quality seeds, cold storage, soil-testing labs and market yards to raise crop productivity.