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Zuari Agri Park
Land is the shrinking resource in agriculture. While availability of land for agriculture is reducing, the demand for food grains is increasing day by day. Country’s food grain requirement is projected to grow to 340 million tonnes by 2020 from current level of 240 million tonnes. This need has to be met through higher yields per unit of land, water, energy and time. This is possible only by adopting precision agriculture techniques, aiming at target yields in line with advanced countries like Israel.
To meet this goal, there is a need for radical change in extension education and transfer of technology to farmers. The methodology of harvesting targeted yields through precision agriculture should be practically demonstrated to farmers on a model farm. Zuari has made the beginning in this direction by establishing Zuari Agri Park at Lamboti, near Solapur in Maharashtra.
Zuari Agri Park comprises of 104 acres of land, well suited for cultivating various crops. It has a well laid out irrigation system connected to a large well which can meet the water requirement almost throughout the year. The standing crops are Pomegranate, mango, Sapota, Sugarcane and Banana. Plans have been initiated to lay out demonstrations on field crops such as Wheat, Paddy, Jower, Maize, Redgram, Vegetables etc, besides horticultural crops and showcase the precision agriculture to farmers immediate future.
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