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Project detail:
The Bihar Rural Transformation Project aims to strengthen rural value chains, improve enterprise productivity, create better employment opportunities, and promote rural prosperity and resilience. The project will focus on agriculture and allied sectors, including maize, horticulture, dairy, makhana (fox nut), and fisheries. Activities include developing farm-gate facilities, block-level processing units, growth centres, cold-chain systems, food processing, and market linkages. It will also support women-led and Self-Help Group (SHG)-based enterprises in tourism, health and nutrition services, clean energy, and waste-to-income initiatives. Digital and financial infrastructure, skills development, climate-smart agriculture, and enterprise support will help improve rural household incomes and employment. Specific production capacity and employment figures are not provided.
Project Cost: US$ 340.48 million (total operation cost), equivalent to approximately ?2,848 crore at an indicative exchange rate of ?83.65 per US dollar. The rupee amount is an external calculation; the document reports the cost in US dollars.
Note: please download project document attached to this project for more information.
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