Udala Palmarosa Cluster

Based out at Udala block of Mayurbhanj district, the Udala Palmarosa Cluster comprises both of land holding tribes and beneficiaries from   landless families. The Udala Palmarosa Cluster is one of the potential clusters considered to be developed under the cluster mode of the SFURTI scheme. The cluster is traditionally an agrarian economy where majority of the population are tribal farmers. Before the project intervention, the farmer beneficiaries only cultivated the traditional crops like wheat and paddy. Such cultivation did not bring much income to the beneficiaries and hence, the farmers kept pushing below the poverty line. Switching over to the cultivation of lemon grass was the first step that the cluster took to revamp its economic and social conditions. Today they are engaged in growing lemon grass and palmarosa in a total area of 500 acres. The strong fragrance of the grasses prevents intrusion of wild animals to the field and hence the total produce reaches the CFC for production without any loss.