Consultant
30 years of experience is expertise from experience and a knowledge base that would go beyond elephant size.
“My childhood including college education was in Pune because my father was an HOD and Principal at the College of Agriculture, Pune. I was always attracted to fruits and vegetables cultivation and so plunged into the agricultural space. We are currently into commercial cultivation of fruits, flowers and vegetables.�
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hat service do you provide as an agrihorticulture expert and consultant? The important thing is the planning of the entire project. This includes the space you choose to grow the plant; the soil, water and climatic conditions of the place are highly important. The market should specifically be taken into consideration. We plan multiple crops which are in demand and are high-paying cash crops. We try to be different and choose crops that are normally not grown by a bulk of the farmers. Looking into the demand and supply, we give technical advice on cultivation of crops and aid selling it in the domestic and international markets. We also give a total consultancy package on technological inputs, organic farming, use of pesticides, use of highyielding varieties, etc.
Dr. Nitin Bhore
Agri Horticulture Expert and Consultant Green Garden We educate and train the managers and workers who work on our farm. We develop a micro climate on the farm because our target is quality, production, consistent supply, pricing and delivery. Please give us an example of a process that you have handled. I have executed about 150 projects, till date, across 13 states in our country Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Orissa, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala. On 50 acres of land you can cultivate exclusive exotic vegetables. We have Green Tokri which is also into organic cultivation of exotic vegetables as well as we also have one progressive farmer who is into commercial cultivation of fruits, Indian and exotic vegetables. We grow 40-50 different types of vegetables - Indian and exotic on the same piece of land where the harvesting too happens simultaneously. We grow a lot of fruits like avocado, rose apple, star fruit, guava, pomegranates etc. as well. In Tamil Nadu we have developed P Mitthu lal Lalas and Sons project, which is into processing. They have huge land in Erode where we have done a lot of work on fruits, coconuts and spices. How do you provide consultancy services? There are two projects: 1. Management of existing projects: We offer professional management services to the farms which are located in India. We
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take up the existing large-scale farms to increase their production quality, marketing and improve the economic value of the crop. 2. Developing new projects: There are people who come up with new projects as well. Some people want to go into floriculture where we do tube roses, orchids, anthurium, gladiolus, etc. Some come to us with the plan of venturing into exotic fruits. Some say they want their customers to be 5-star and 3-star hotels and flights etc, Chinese restaurants and door delivery. We go for exotic vegetables and regular vegetables as well. For both, we help right from scratch. Since we start from scratch, soil development is very important and so we take about 3 months for soil development where we grow green manure crops and mix different kinds of manures, compost, poultry manure, bio fertilizers, micro nutrients etc. First you have to really take care of the soil, irrigation system, nutrient management,
