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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Maharashtra Agri Sector

Maharashtra Government initiatives are very unique to make agriculture, horticulture, agribusiness, Food Processing industry highly competitive and successful in the country. Similarly Maharastra farmers are very enterprising and hard working and make agriculture a viable business.

We all know many success stories of the Maharashtra farmers. (which will be carried in the coming issues) We have contacted the agriculture department to know more about their new initiatives to make success of the agrisector in the State. When the agriculture Minister’s office is contacted they were so forthcoming to come out with their various new schemes and strategies.

Here we publish the answers we received from the Minister’s Office for our questions on account of Maharashtra agriculture developments which shows the way to other States .
1.How do you rank Maharashtra agriculture progress with other states?
Maharashtra is richly endowed with outstanding agricultural research and educational institutions both in the public and private sectors. It has diverse agro climatic and soil conditions.

Maharashtra has always taken an initiative in adopting new technologies.
The farm families are hard working and innovative. Given a proper synergy between technology and public demand, rapid progress can be made in improving the productivity, profitability, stability and sustainability of major farming systems of the state, as is evident from Maharashtra’s horticultural revolution.

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