This page keeps documented evidence, proposed models and future possibilities apart. Statistics here come from published sources and describe Nandurbar district; they are not results from any pilot. Environmentrepreneurs is at concept stage and nothing described on this site is operating.
Each is shown with its source and its caveats.
They hold about 37% of the district's agricultural land.
Census 2011 base. The source PDF's text layer drops the percent signs; we checked the printed page and the p.22 table (small 28% + marginal 40%).
Source: NABARD, Potential Linked Credit Plan 2025–26, Nandurbar, PDF p.7; cross-check PDF p.22. Sources →
Nandurbar, Maharashtra, is one of them.
Programmes already bring schemes together. We do not claim convergence as our innovation; our focus is village-level enterprise economics.
Soil erosion, recurring drought and migration of tribal families from parts of the district. The District Survey Report 2026 classes almost all of Akkalkuwa taluka, and parts of Akrani, Nawapur and Nandurbar, as drought areas.
Source-reported findings, not pilot results. The sources give no counts of migrating families. The District Survey Report was prepared for sand-mining regulation; the drought classification comes from its climate section.
Sources: NABARD PLP PDF pp.7, 9; Nandurbar District Survey Report (Revision 01, F.Y. 2025–26), PDF p.19. Sources →
That limited rural jobs, vulnerable farm incomes, degrading land and water, little local value addition, and gaps between resources, skills and markets reinforce one another is our framing of the problem, informed by these sources. It has not been measured as a cycle. See the diagram →
Something a government or other published source states, with a link or a document reference.
How we think something could work. Reasoned through, but not tested and not agreed by any outside party.
An opportunity we are evaluating. It needs a feasibility study before it becomes a plan.
A longer-term idea we have not developed into a model.
An aspiration or a direction. Alignment is not contribution, and neither is a result.
What is actually true today and can be checked.
Source numbers (S1, S2…) refer to the list below.
| Claim | Status | Source | Caveat |
|---|---|---|---|
| About 68% of Nandurbar landholders are small or marginal farmers, holding about 37% of agricultural land. | Official figure | S1 p.7, p.22 | Census 2011 base; PDF text drops % signs (checked on page). A district statistic, not a pilot finding. |
| Nandurbar is one of 112 Aspirational Districts. | Official policy | S2 | The programme is run by government. It does not endorse us. |
| Soil erosion, recurring drought and migration of tribal families are reported in parts of the district. | Source-reported | S1 pp.7, 9 | Qualitative; no counts given. |
| Almost all of Akkalkuwa taluka and parts of Akrani, Nawapur and Nandurbar are drought areas. | Source-reported | S3 PDF p.19 | Classification in an official report prepared for sand-mining regulation; not our measurement. |
| Five rural challenges reinforce one another. | Vision (framing) | Our analysis, informed by S1, S3 | A hypothesis; not measured as a cycle. |
| Existing programmes already converge schemes and support FPOs, bamboo and livelihoods. | Source-reported | S2, S1, S6 | We do not claim convergence as our innovation. |
| Bamboo grown outside forests is not forest produce; bamboo in forests is minor forest produce under the Forest Rights Act. | Official policy | S6 p.2; S8 | Site-specific legal advice is still needed before any planting. |
| Bamboo income is longer-gestation: NABARD's bankable bamboo model assumes income from the fifth year, and notes first harvest from year 3 to 5 depending on planting density. | Source-reported (model) | S13, PDF pp.5–7 | A model bankable project, not a Nandurbar result. Timing depends on planting density, so "year 5" is a model assumption, not a rule. Short-term earning would need to come from other lines. |
| Under the Green Credit Programme's September 2025 memorandum on restoring degraded forest land, credits are non-tradable and the applicant gets no commercial interest. | Official policy | S7 | Checked against the primary text (28 Oct 2026). Covers State Forest Department land only; credits need five years, 40% canopy and verification. We have not applied and assume no Green Credit income. |
| No bamboo-specific carbon methodology existed as of a 2021 review; carbon projects face monitoring, additionality and small-holding barriers. | Source-reported | S9, S10 | Methodologies can change. We assume no carbon income. |
| Maharashtra's Bamboo Industry Policy 2025 names Nandurbar among regions for proposed bamboo clusters. | Official policy | S5 | Not an endorsement or commitment to us. |
| India's Net Zero 2070 goal; Viksit Bharat 2047; Viksit Maharashtra 2047; the UN Sustainable Development Goals. | Official policy | S4, S11, S12, S14, S15 | We state intended alignment only, not results, endorsement or any UN affiliation. |
| Green Boundaries, Green Corridors and Green Commons. | Proposed model | Environmentrepreneurs concept | Not evidenced as a combined model. Road-authority rules and common-land (gairan) governance are still to be researched. No land is assumed vacant. |
| Who-pays-whom flows, including contracted fees to Environmentrepreneurs. | Proposed model | Environmentrepreneurs concept | No contract exists. |
| Nine enterprise pathways in the wider ecosystem. | Under exploration / Future possibility | Mixed; see each card | None is operating. No income, price or buyer is claimed. |
Links are given where we have confirmed a stable public address. Other documents are cited by exact title, publisher and page so they can be found and checked. Page numbers are PDF page numbers; the printed page numbers in the NABARD district plan run one lower.
More sources, with links, appear on India's Development Vision. Spotted an error? Write to hello@environmentrepreneurs.in and we will correct it.