Agriculture
Development Trust Malegoan Baramati :
The
Farm possesses 110 acres of land that is fully under cultivation
of crops relevant to the area. The main purpose of the farm is
to demonstrate the latest agricultural practices. It also acts
as a tool to do applied research on agricultural Technologies
& undertake trials before their transfer to farmers. After
a careful planning and analysis soil types, the farm was divided
in to three major blocks of Horticulture, Agronomy and Nursery
unit. This was followed by planting mother plants of horticulture
crops such as Mango, Sapota, Guava, Anola, custard apple, pomegranate,
figs etc that are mainly grown in the district. The plantation
was completed in 1996. Similarly, agronomical crops grown are
sugarcane and wheat. Now the entire farm is operated on drip irrigation
system for which the water storage tank of 10,00,000 lits capacity
has been constructed. The farm has wide collection of mother plants
of latest released varieties of horticulture plants.
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