• Introduction:
  The methodology of the Comprehensive District Agriculture Plan (C-DAP) should focus on understanding the latent potential for development and identifying initiatives required. These potentials may be treated as goals to be achieved with the available and additional resources.
  
  In order to prepare the plan it is necessary to assemble a statistical profile of the district. This will lead to understanding of the development perspective of the district and considering these and the Vision; a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) analysis should be carried out. Here the Strengths across the sectors of the district will be documented followed by the Weaknesses confronted in the existing pattern of development. It will be essential to explore the Opportunities available in the district by providing adequate incentives for groups or individuals. In all these processes, the district plan document must keep in view the probability of Threats confronting the district. The Agricultural Planning Units should broadly follow the SWOT analysis as the central tool for developing the document.