Pratapgarhप्रतापगढ़
32.1 lakh people. Larger than Qatar, Jamaica, or Armenia. Governed as one cell of one state.
- Population
- 32,09,141 (32.1 lakh)
- Area
- 3,717 km²
- Headquarters
- Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh
₹2,688 cr
of bankable business potential identified by the government in Pratapgarh.
Source: NABARD PLP 2023-24
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NABARD's plan for Pratapgarh · PLP 2023-24
₹2,688 crof bankable credit potential identified by the government
Crop production, maintenance & marketing
₹1,646 cr
MSME
₹409 cr
Term loans for agriculture & allied activities
₹408 cr
Ancillary activities (incl. food & agro processing)
₹64 cr
Pratapgarh's NABARD credit plan for 2023-24 sizes the district's total priority-sector lending potential at about Rs 2,688 crore, up 5.06% on last year. Farming dominates: agriculture accounts for roughly Rs 2,162 crore (80%) and small business (MSME) for about Rs 409 crore (15%), with the rest split across housing, education, social infrastructure and renewable energy.
The biggest single opportunity is ordinary crop loans at Rs 1,646 crore, for the district's paddy, wheat, gram, pea and mustard on land that is almost fully irrigated (208,059 of 228,310 hectares) with a high 162% cropping intensity. On top of that, term loans for allied activities add roughly Rs 408 crore, led by dairy (Rs 162 crore), farm machinery (Rs 64 crore), poultry (Rs 61 crore), sheep-goat-piggery (Rs 32 crore) and minor irrigation (Rs 30 crore).
Pratapgarh's signature is aonla (amla), feeding a local processing cluster (candy, murabba, juice) that underpins the district's Rs 56 crore food-and-agro-processing potential. Fisheries (Rs 12 crore) draw on the Sai and Ganga rivers.
The plan is candid about what holds the district back: weak supply of quality seeds and nurseries, thin veterinary services and poor animal breeds, patchy electricity, missing milk routes and bulk milk chilling on them, and weak market links needing rural haats and afforestation.
What the plan promotes
- Aonla (amla) is Pratapgarh's flagship crop and GI-linked identity, feeding a local aonla-processing cluster (candy, murabba, pickle, juice) that anchors the district's food-processing potential of 55.61 cr
- Dairy is the single largest allied opportunity at 162.23 cr, backed by 46.21 lakh crossbred + 57.19 lakh indigenous cattle and 8.69 lakh buffaloes; PLP flags setting up bulk milk chilling units on old milk routes
- Farm mechanisation potential of 63.70 cr and water resources / minor irrigation of 29.50 cr, on a 162% cropping-intensity base where 208059 ha of 228310 ha cultivated is irrigated
- Poultry (60.79 cr) and sheep-goat-piggery (60.79 cr and 31.76 cr) term-loan potential, with the PLP naming poultry hatchery units and improved-breed livestock as thrust interventions
- Field crops paddy, wheat, gram (chana), pea and mustard dominate cropping; total crop-loan potential 1646.23 cr across 12193 gram panchayats and 5 lakh landholdings (83.77% small & marginal)
- MSME term + working-capital potential of 408.60 cr, driven by gud/khandsari, aonla-based agro units and small manufacturing across 17 development blocks
Gaps the plan names
- Shortage of quality seeds and functioning nurseries constraining crop productivity and commercialisation
- Inadequate veterinary / animal health services and scarcity of good-breed animals, plus missing poultry hatchery units and cattle-feed (fodder) units
- Insufficient and irregular power supply for agriculture and allied enterprises
- Lack of milk routes and cold-chain: PLP calls for reviving old milk routes and setting up bulk milk chilling units on them
- Poor marketing infrastructure for farm and non-farm produce, needing rural haats (grameen haat) and organised market linkages
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What the plan promotes
- Aonla (amla) is Pratapgarh's flagship crop and GI-linked identity, feeding a local aonla-processing cluster (candy, murabba, pickle, juice) that anchors the district's food-processing potential of 55.61 cr
- Dairy is the single largest allied opportunity at 162.23 cr, backed by 46.21 lakh crossbred + 57.19 lakh indigenous cattle and 8.69 lakh buffaloes; PLP flags setting up bulk milk chilling units on old milk routes
- Farm mechanisation potential of 63.70 cr and water resources / minor irrigation of 29.50 cr, on a 162% cropping-intensity base where 208059 ha of 228310 ha cultivated is irrigated
- Poultry (60.79 cr) and sheep-goat-piggery (60.79 cr and 31.76 cr) term-loan potential, with the PLP naming poultry hatchery units and improved-breed livestock as thrust interventions
- Field crops paddy, wheat, gram (chana), pea and mustard dominate cropping; total crop-loan potential 1646.23 cr across 12193 gram panchayats and 5 lakh landholdings (83.77% small & marginal)
- MSME term + working-capital potential of 408.60 cr, driven by gud/khandsari, aonla-based agro units and small manufacturing across 17 development blocks
Gaps the plan names
- Shortage of quality seeds and functioning nurseries constraining crop productivity and commercialisation
- Inadequate veterinary / animal health services and scarcity of good-breed animals, plus missing poultry hatchery units and cattle-feed (fodder) units
- Insufficient and irregular power supply for agriculture and allied enterprises
- Lack of milk routes and cold-chain: PLP calls for reviving old milk routes and setting up bulk milk chilling units on them
- Poor marketing infrastructure for farm and non-farm produce, needing rural haats (grameen haat) and organised market linkages
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