One District One Product

The ODOP Initiative is the manifestation of the vision of the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, to foster balanced regional development across all districts of the country. The idea is to select, brand, and promote one product from each district of the country for enabling holistic socioeconomic growth across all regions. The mandate of the ODOP initiative includes identifying, understanding, and solving problems associated with each of the chosen products at all points in their respective supply chains, improving the market accessibility of the chosen products, and dedicated handholding of the producers to harness the full potential of the chosen products. Access the full list   here .

Ahmednagar district is on the fore-front in co-operative movement in the country owing to the strong presence of Sugar factories, distilleries, spinning mills, paper mills, milk federation, dairy etc. in the co-operative sector and a few co-operative industrial estates. The district has well road network connecting it to all the mega markets in the country. It can be said that the district is the ‘Gateway’ of Marathwada and Vidarbha to Mumbai. The north belt of the district is richer in water resources with the help of Godavari and Pravara rivers and south belt is dry land except few spots in Shrirampur and Parner.

Sugar: Ahmednagar has 26 Sugar manufacturing and processing units contributing 11% of total Maharashtra sugar exports in FY 2021-22 (till January 2022). Refined sugar such as white sugar, cane sugar, brown sugar is prominent produce from the district.

Dairy Products: District is famous for skimmed milk powder, milk powder, butter, ghee, cheese and other products. Highly modernised dairy processing units are responsible for dairy revolution in Ahmednagar. There are 10 prominent Dairy products processing units in Ahmednagar district.

• Promote the development of different varieties of sugarcane considering the local soil and weather conditions, in order to reduce the cultivation costs and enhance the productivity
• Conduct awareness program and workshops at farmer’s field to demonstrate a total package of cultivation practices right from sowing to harvesting
• Organize ‘Sugarcane Value Chain Development Workshop’s to revamp the sugarcane value chains through alignment of support infrastructure with special focus on marginal farmers
• Tie-up with local R&D and management institutes for designing, packaging, marketing, and branding of sugar and sugarcane products from Ahmednagar district
• Organize events like Buyers-Sellers Summit, Export Conclave, Krishi-Mahotsav, Forex Customer Meet etc. to improve the market accessibility
• Promote online marketing of Sugar, Diary and Sugarcane products
• Strengthening Infrastructure for Quality and Clean Milk Production and Assistance to Cooperatives.
• Scope for export of various milk & milk products.
• Preserve animal genetic resources, conserve indigenous breeds, protect, strengthen and improve livestock including exotic breeds and their crosses.