Orissa

Agriculture

Orissa's main agriculture products are rice, pulse, oil seeds, vegetables, groundnut, cotton, jute, coconut, spices, potato, cansugar, fruits etc.

There is a vast scope for agro based industries as: rice milling, Dal milling, edible oil milling, dehydration of vegetables, maize milling, cattle poultry, cotton oil, potato chips, coconut oil, sugar mills, mushroom cultivation, non edible oils and many more agro based industries.

There is also a wide scope for food processing small scale industries as: spice grinding, ginger powder, fruits, soft drinks, cornflakes, tomato sauce, squash-jam-jelly etc.

Forest Based Industries

Orissa state is enriched with vast forest resources. There is a vast scope for the forest based industries as: wooden furniture, seal seed oil, neem oil, natural gums, biri making, agarbati sticks, palm rose oil, mahua rectified spirit, manufacturing of cane, ayurvedic medicine, plywood, resins, mulberry silk, leaf plates, bee keeping for honey processing etc.

Sugar

There are five large sugar mills in the State. The sugar mills are located at:

• Asika in Ganjam District,
  
• Baragarh in Samalpur,
  
• Nayegarh in Puri District,
  
• Baramba in Cuttack District.

Fertiliser

There are four big fertilizer plants in Orissa. The first plant located at Rourkela in Sundergarh District is Public Sector Undertaking. This plant utilizes the by products and surplus gas from the Rourkela Steel Plant.

The second fertilizer plant - The Orissa Fertilizer and Chemical Limited is located near Kalunga. The capacity of this fertilizer plant is 45,000 tones per annum.

The third fertilizer plant is located at Talcher in Dhenkanal District. It produces 495,000 tonnes of Urea and 228,000 tonnes of Nitrogen.

The fourth fertilizer plant - The Indian Farmers and Fertilizers Corporation Ltd. is located at Baragarh. It produces mixed fertilizer.

A new phosphate fertilizer complex at Paradeep, a joint venture of Island Republic of Nauru and Government of India has been built. It produces Di-Ammonium Phosphate with a capacity of 2,400 tones per day in first phase. Its second phase also started and produces Phosphoric Acid and Phosphorus Pentaoxide.