Jalpaiguriজলপাইগুড়ি
38.7 lakh people. Larger than Mongolia, Qatar, or Jamaica. Governed as one cell of one state.
- Population
- 38,72,846 (38.7 lakh)
- Area
- 3,044 km²
- Headquarters
- Jalpaiguri
₹7,104 cr
of bankable business potential identified by the government in Jalpaiguri.
Source: NABARD PLP 2023-24
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NABARD's plan for Jalpaiguri · PLP 2023-24
₹7,104 crof bankable credit potential identified by the government
MSME
₹3,058 cr
Crop production, maintenance & marketing
₹1,654 cr
Term loans for agriculture & allied activities
₹983 cr
Others (loans to SHGs/JLGs, PMJDY, SC/ST orgs)
₹808 cr
Jalpaiguri's 2023-24 credit plan sizes total priority-sector potential at 7,104 crore, up 17.9% on the prior year. The two big engines are almost even: agriculture at about 3,003 crore (roughly 42% of the plan) and MSME at about 3,058 crore. Within MSME, term loans (2,447 crore) far outweigh working capital (612 crore), and the district's one organised industry is tea.
The biggest farm cluster by far is crop loans for potato, paddy, jute, mustard, tomato and chilli at 1,654 crore. Tea dominates the land: 93 gardens over 55,531 ha producing the famous 'Dooars Tea', with about 3.5 lakh people depending on it. Plantation and horticulture term loans (477 crore) and animal husbandry (dairy 140 crore, poultry 110 crore, sheep-goat-piggery 68 crore) are the next opportunities, strongest in the Rajganj, Dhupguri and Mainaguri blocks. Food and agro processing (164 crore) and cold-storage/warehousing infrastructure (154 crore) round out the value-addition space, aggregated through 34 NABARD-promoted Farmer Producer Companies covering nearly 17,000 farmers.
The plan's own named gaps: weak irrigation (only ~30% of water is used), missing post-harvest cold storage for potato, thin backward and forward market linkages, and too few Food Parks for private agri-processing. Fixing these is the path to raising farm incomes on the district's mostly small landholdings.
What the plan promotes
- Tea is the district's only organised industry: 93 gardens over 55531 ha, employing 16650 in factories and 128410 in plantations, producing 121746 thousand kg of 'Dooars Tea'; ~3.5 lakh people depend on it
- NABARD has promoted 34 Farmer Producer Companies covering 16935 farmers across all 9 blocks; 16 FPCs are already credit-linked to commercial banks and RRBs
- Crop production is the single biggest credit line at 1653.98 Cr for potato, paddy, jute, mustard, tomato, chilli and brinjal on a Gross Cropped Area of 368756 ha
- Plantation & horticulture (incl. sericulture) term-loan potential of 476.93 Cr, plus large vegetable scope (brinjal, chilli, tomato, pumpkin, cabbage, cauliflower) for the nearby Siliguri market
- Animal husbandry potential led by Dairy 139.95 Cr, Poultry 109.66 Cr and Sheep-Goat-Piggery 67.84 Cr; Rajganj, Dhupguri and Mainaguri blocks have great scope for animal resources
- Food & agro processing credit potential of 164.20 Cr, with agriculture-infrastructure storage/cold-storage at 154.17 Cr for potato and horticultural produce
Gaps the plan names
- Lack of irrigation is a major impediment; only ~30% of the water reserve is utilised, so minor irrigation and water-harvesting structures plus energy-efficient pump-set energisation are needed at scale
- Post-harvest facilities (sorting, grading, packaging, cold storage) are not available in all parts of the district; more multipurpose cold storages for potato are essential
- Backward linkage (farm-input supply) and forward linkage (market linkage for farmer produce) need strengthening, best delivered through FPOs
- Government should create more Food Parks to let private entrepreneurs set up agri-processing units
- Small and fragmented land-holding pattern (91% small/marginal, 73% under 1 ha) limits farm mechanisation and viability, needing custom-hiring centres
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What the plan promotes
- Tea is the district's only organised industry: 93 gardens over 55531 ha, employing 16650 in factories and 128410 in plantations, producing 121746 thousand kg of 'Dooars Tea'; ~3.5 lakh people depend on it
- NABARD has promoted 34 Farmer Producer Companies covering 16935 farmers across all 9 blocks; 16 FPCs are already credit-linked to commercial banks and RRBs
- Crop production is the single biggest credit line at 1653.98 Cr for potato, paddy, jute, mustard, tomato, chilli and brinjal on a Gross Cropped Area of 368756 ha
- Plantation & horticulture (incl. sericulture) term-loan potential of 476.93 Cr, plus large vegetable scope (brinjal, chilli, tomato, pumpkin, cabbage, cauliflower) for the nearby Siliguri market
- Animal husbandry potential led by Dairy 139.95 Cr, Poultry 109.66 Cr and Sheep-Goat-Piggery 67.84 Cr; Rajganj, Dhupguri and Mainaguri blocks have great scope for animal resources
- Food & agro processing credit potential of 164.20 Cr, with agriculture-infrastructure storage/cold-storage at 154.17 Cr for potato and horticultural produce
Gaps the plan names
- Lack of irrigation is a major impediment; only ~30% of the water reserve is utilised, so minor irrigation and water-harvesting structures plus energy-efficient pump-set energisation are needed at scale
- Post-harvest facilities (sorting, grading, packaging, cold storage) are not available in all parts of the district; more multipurpose cold storages for potato are essential
- Backward linkage (farm-input supply) and forward linkage (market linkage for farmer produce) need strengthening, best delivered through FPOs
- Government should create more Food Parks to let private entrepreneurs set up agri-processing units
- Small and fragmented land-holding pattern (91% small/marginal, 73% under 1 ha) limits farm mechanisation and viability, needing custom-hiring centres
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 Jalpaiguri
Jalpaiguri district is a district of the Indian state of West Bengal. The district was established in 1869 during British Raj. The headquarters of the district are in the city of Jalpaiguri, which is also the divisional headquarters of Jalpaiguri division.
Source: Wikipedia — Jalpaiguri district
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