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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 Agri Tourism Palshi? |
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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 Destination? |
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Baramati Agri Tourism
Development Centre, Palshi Village Taluka Baramati,
Dist.Pune, Maharashtra, India |
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How well is your Agri Tourism
Destination is connected? |
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The Agri Tourism
Unit in Palshi is well connected by Airways; Railways
and Roadways. |
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Nearest International Airport
: Pune Airport 75Kms.
Nearest Railhead :
Baramati 30 kms.
Nearest Railhead :
Jejuri 25 kms. (from Mumbai / Dadar direct
train to Jejuri is Koyna Express at 9am every day) |
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Roadways : Mumbai
- Pune – Hadapsar – Saswad- Jejuri –
Morgaon – Loni Pati Chowk – Loni Bhapkar
- Village Palshi. – Baramati Agri Tourism Development
Centre. Total distance: 75 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 30 acres, primarily use for agricultural purposes.
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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1.The over night stay
arrangement is at the farm itself, there are 20 rooms
and 2 dormetory / big halls with attached toilets.
The occupancy is triple sharing every room have 3
single beds. One Room is allotted to each Family .The
accommodation facilities are basic but very hygienic
neat and clean. The Water heaters are fitted to provide
the running hot water for bathing in the morning.
There is also the facility of dormitory hall, wherein
more than 50 people can easily accommodate. Total
accomodation for 200 persons.
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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 Palshi is very Safe & secure for all the
guests and visitors, there is only one main entrance
gate, during daytime almost people work in the farm,
plus the entire area of 30 acres is barbed wire fenced
and over and above there is adequate 24 hrs security
persons. |
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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 Palshi village. 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 10kms at Morgaon Town wherein there is regular
bus service to Pune every after 30 min that reaches
to pune in just 1hr 30 mints. 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 Agri Tourism Palshi? |
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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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