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What is
Agri Tourism Concept all about? |
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Where are
the Agri Tourism Destinations? |
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How well
is your Agri Tourism Destination is connected? |
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What is
there to see and enjoy in your Agricultural Farm at Agri
Tourism Unit / Village? |
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What is
arrangement for over night stay and how are
accommodation facilities and amenities? |
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What are
outdoor recreational activities for children and
adults? |
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What is
there to do in the evening or is there organized
entertainment programs? |
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What kinds
of meals are served to the guests? |
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How safe
& secure is your agri tourism unit? |
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Whether
emergency medical services are available at the agri
tourism unit? |
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Whether
there is an emergency transport facility, in the unlike
event if the
Tourist or guest wants to travel back to
pune? |
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What is
the other Risk involved? |
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What is
the Liability of the Agri Tourism Development
Corporation during agri tourism visits? |
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Does ATDC
organize the conducted tours to Baramati Malegoan Agri
Tourism Units? |
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What are the
charges? |
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What is Agri Tourism Concept all
about? |
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Agricultural
Tourism is the Holidays concept of Visiting a working
farm or any agricultural, horticultural, or agribusiness
operations for the purpose of enjoyment, education, or
active involvement in the activities of the farm or
operation. In general Agri Tourism is the practice of
attracting travelers or visitors to an area or areas
used primarily for agricultural purposes. |
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Where are the Agri Tourism
Destinations? |
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At present the
Agri Tourism Destination is in Malegoan Village; Tal
Baramati; Dist Pune Maharashtra, India. This Agri
Tourism destination belongs to “Agricultural Development
Trust Malegoan”. |
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How well is your Agri Tourism
Destination is connected? |
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The Agri Tourism
Unit in Malegaon is well connected by Airways; Railways
and Roadways. |
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Nearest International Airport
: Pune Airport 102
Kms.
Nearest Railhead
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Baramati 10 kms. |
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Roadways : Mumbai
- Pune – Hadapsar – Saswad- Jejuri – Morgaon –
Karhawagaj Chowk – Malegoan Kurd. – Agri Tourism
Destination. (Malegoan Sheti Farm) (ADTM) Total
distance: 95 kms. Driving Time approx: 2 hrs. |
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What is there to see and
enjoy in your Agricultural Farm at Agri Tourism Unit /
Village? |
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Agri Tourism
activities includes farm tours; tractor and bullock cart
rides; grapes, mangoes, and other horticulture farms and
by - product farms; birds and animal farms; There are
lot of things the visitors or guests can enjoy in this
agri tourism unit/farm; Total area under cultivation
here is of 110 acres, primarily use for agricultural
purposes, out of which 65 acres is used for
Horticultural plantations &, cultivation, consisting
of various seasonal fruits farms. The added attractions
here are the poultry farm; dairy farm; goat farm; and
most visited point silk processing unit. The visitors
here can also visit the grampanchayat village office and
school; village fairs and markets, near by Jaggery
making unit; Emu bird Farm; Sugar Factory; Taluka Milk
Collection Centers and some of the oldest religious
temples and also Museum. |
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What is arrangement for
over night stay and how are accommodation facilities and
amenities? |
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The over night
stay arrangement is at the farm itself, there are 12
rooms and 1 big hall. The occupancy is quadruple sharing
every room have 4 single beds. One Room is allotted to
each Family .The accommodation facilities are basic but
very hygienic neat and clean. Two toilets (one western
style) and one bathroom attached to block of every three
rooms, this arrangement is purposely kept to experience
the joint family atmosphere. The Solar Water heaters at
the rooftop are fitted to provide the running hot water
for bathing in the morning. There is also the facility
of dormitory hall, wherein more than 250 people can
easily accommodate. |
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What are outdoor recreational
activities for children and adults? |
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The outdoor
recreational activities for children and adults during
daytime are farm tours and agricultural education
programs, how to grow sugarcane, grapes, pomegranate,
guava, watermelon, other fruits and what are the food
values of each fruits, how to take care for cattle,
nature education programs, domestic animals and emu bird
farms visits and education of the different tress,
demonstrations such as goat and cow milking, honey
making, silk making, jaggery making, rural games that
they can play as gotya; bovhra; surparanbhya;
vittidandu; Buffalo ride; bullock cart ride; tractor
rides; watching domestic animals; clay molding; painting
the nature scenery; tree climbing or simply run with the
cycle tyre. |
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What is there to do in the evening or
is there organized entertainment programs? |
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The Evenings are
generally fun filled, star gazing activity and the rural
maharashtra folk dances and folk songs programs is
organized on every Wednesday and Saturday Evening,
bonfire/ campfire during winter seasons, family games,
children games, and lots of fun filled programs. |
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What kinds of meals are served to the
guests? |
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The food served
is pure vegetarian Maharashtrian style, for breakfast
Poha, Upma, or Shira, for the lunch usually jawar or
bajra bhakri, chapattis, rice, varan, pickle, papad,
kurdaya, bhaji, thecha, wangeche bharit, jhunka/ pitla,
any fresh green vegetable sabji, matki / chawli usal
shabji, etc. |
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How safe & secure is your agri
tourism unit? |
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The Agri Tourism
unit at Malegoan is very Safe & secure for all the
guests and visitors, there is only one main entrance
gate, during daytime almost 400 people work in the farm,
plus the entire area of 110 acres is barbed wire fenced
and over and above there is adequate 24 hrs security
persons at the main entrance gate and for the entire
area. |
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Whether emergency medical services
are available at the agri tourism unit? |
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This Agri Tourism
unit is just 1 km from the Malegoan village. Apart from
the onsite medical doctor there are specialist doctors
available 24hrs on call. |
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Whether there is an emergency
transport facility, in the unlike event if
the
Tourist or guest wants to travel back to
pune? |
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Yes, The nearest
bus stop is just 1 km from the farm and main bus station
is just 5 kms at Baramati Town wherein there is regular
non-stop bus service to Pune every after 30 min that
reaches to pune in just 2 hrs. In case very emergency
event the Agri Tourism Development Corporation will
organize private transport facility (at extra
cost) |
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What is the other Risk
involved? |
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we have
identified the agri tourism activities that we are going
to offer and then examined the risks those activities
may create. For example: you may decide to ride the
bullock cart ride or tractor tailor ride is not risks
free, since there is always a possibility that a guests
will fall off the bullock cart or the tractor tailor,
however there are established rules and regulations that
protects our guests from potential risks. |
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What is the Liability of the Agri
Tourism Development Corporation during agri tourism
visits? |
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Sometime we may
not always be able to avoid the accidents during agri
tourism visits at the farms, we make sure that our
operations and the farm activity and the sight seeing
tours at the farm and outside the farms to sugar
factory, jaggery making unit is safe as possible and
have taken appropriate safety precautions. The Guests or
visitors will be solely responsible to the any general,
financial, personal, property, product, and professional
loss during the Agri Tourism tours and the ATDC Company
cannot be held responsible. |
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Does ATDC organize the conducted
tours to Baramati Malegoan Agri Tourism Units? |
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Yes, ATDC
organize conducted tours for individual family groups,
students groups, senior citizens groups, church groups,
corporate company groups, special disable persons
groups. |
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