Deoriaदेवरिया
31.0 lakh people. Larger than Qatar, Jamaica, or Armenia. Governed as one cell of one state.
- Population
- 31,00,946 (31.0 lakh)
- Area
- 2,535 km²
- Headquarters
- Deoria, Uttar Pradesh
- Established
- 1946
₹3,815 cr
of bankable business potential identified by the government in Deoria.
Source: NABARD PLP 2023-24
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NABARD's plan for Deoria · PLP 2023-24
₹3,815 crof bankable credit potential identified by the government
Crop production, maintenance & marketing
₹2,297 cr
MSME
₹811 cr
Term loans for agriculture & allied activities
₹380 cr
Ancillary activities (incl. food & agro processing)
₹131 cr
Deoria's NABARD credit plan for 2023-24 sizes the total priority-sector opportunity at ₹3,814.98 crore, up 8.31% on the previous year. The money leans heavily toward farming: agriculture accounts for ₹2,894.51 crore (about 76%), MSME for ₹810.80 crore, and the rest for education, housing, social infrastructure and renewable energy.
Most of the farm number is short-term crop loans (₹2,296.80 crore) for the district's staples — paddy, wheat, sugarcane, maize, potato, banana and vegetables. Sugarcane stays the main cash crop even after all four local sugar mills shut down. On the investment side, the biggest openings are dairy (₹125.61 crore), farm mechanisation (₹112.33 crore), food and agro processing (₹94.94 crore), storage and marketing infrastructure (₹55.03 crore), fishery (₹36.37 crore) and poultry (₹31.29 crore). NABARD-backed producer companies operate in the belt, including the Kasaya milk producer company. On the MSME side, ₹599.20 crore is investment credit and ₹211.60 crore working capital; with almost no heavy industry, the plan sees processing of local farm produce as the first rung of factory growth.
The plan's own flagged gaps: expensive diesel irrigation (fix via rural electrification and solar pumpsets), no permanent buy-and-store centre at Nyay Panchayat level, cane-payment troubles hurting loan recovery, and yearly flood damage in Rudrapur, Barhaj, Bhagalpur and Lar blocks needing an integrated flood-control system.
What the plan promotes
- Sugarcane is the district's main cash crop despite closure of its four sugar mills; other major crops are paddy, wheat, maize, potato, banana, vegetables, pulses and oilseeds
- Dairy is the single biggest term-loan opportunity at 125.61 cr, backed by a large bovine population and the Kasaya Dugdh Utpadak Company Ltd (milk producer company) set up by GoI/NABARD
- Farm mechanisation potential of 112.33 cr across the district's roughly 3.29 lakh ha average cropped area (2.38 lakh operational holdings, average size just 0.51 ha)
- Food and agro processing pegged at 94.94 cr — value-addition of farm produce identified as the first step for the district's industrial development
- Storage and marketing infrastructure (godowns, market yards, silos, cold storage chains) at 55.03 cr, with a permanent procurement-cum-storage centre proposed at every Nyay Panchayat
- Fishery term credit of 36.37 cr and poultry of 31.29 cr as allied livelihood clusters
Gaps the plan names
- Costly diesel makes irrigation expensive; the PLP calls for a special rural electrification scheme and wider solar-pumpset adoption starting with government tubewells (only ~85% of net sown area is irrigated, largely via private tubewells)
- A permanent procurement-cum-storage centre (crop purchase + godown) is needed at every Nyay Panchayat level
- Closure of the district's four sugar mills has shrunk sugarcane area and, with cane-payment delays, is hurting Kisan Credit Card recovery — a dedicated power transmission line for industrial estates is proposed
- Recurring floods (Nepal terai location) damage crops every year in parts of Rudrapur, Barhaj, Bhagalpur and Lar blocks; an integrated flood-control system is flagged as essential infrastructure
- Industrial sector is almost non-existent and the service sector is nascent, so value-addition of agricultural produce must anchor industrial growth
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What the plan promotes
- Sugarcane is the district's main cash crop despite closure of its four sugar mills; other major crops are paddy, wheat, maize, potato, banana, vegetables, pulses and oilseeds
- Dairy is the single biggest term-loan opportunity at 125.61 cr, backed by a large bovine population and the Kasaya Dugdh Utpadak Company Ltd (milk producer company) set up by GoI/NABARD
- Farm mechanisation potential of 112.33 cr across the district's roughly 3.29 lakh ha average cropped area (2.38 lakh operational holdings, average size just 0.51 ha)
- Food and agro processing pegged at 94.94 cr — value-addition of farm produce identified as the first step for the district's industrial development
- Storage and marketing infrastructure (godowns, market yards, silos, cold storage chains) at 55.03 cr, with a permanent procurement-cum-storage centre proposed at every Nyay Panchayat
- Fishery term credit of 36.37 cr and poultry of 31.29 cr as allied livelihood clusters
Gaps the plan names
- Costly diesel makes irrigation expensive; the PLP calls for a special rural electrification scheme and wider solar-pumpset adoption starting with government tubewells (only ~85% of net sown area is irrigated, largely via private tubewells)
- A permanent procurement-cum-storage centre (crop purchase + godown) is needed at every Nyay Panchayat level
- Closure of the district's four sugar mills has shrunk sugarcane area and, with cane-payment delays, is hurting Kisan Credit Card recovery — a dedicated power transmission line for industrial estates is proposed
- Recurring floods (Nepal terai location) damage crops every year in parts of Rudrapur, Barhaj, Bhagalpur and Lar blocks; an integrated flood-control system is flagged as essential infrastructure
- Industrial sector is almost non-existent and the service sector is nascent, so value-addition of agricultural produce must anchor industrial growth
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.
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About Deoria
Deoria district, one of the districts of eastern Uttar Pradesh, India has its headquarters located at Deoria.Deoria is located in eastern Uttar Pradesh and is a part of Gorakhpur division. It came into existence on 16 March 1946 from Gorakhpur district.
Source: Wikipedia — Deoria district
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