KRUSHIK 2015 - Live Demonstration and Agri. Expo Agricultural Development Trust’s Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Baramati had organized India’s biggest Live Demonstration and Agri

Expo “KRUSHIK 2015”, was held during 6th- 8th November 2015 at KVK Instructional Farm. It was the first live

demonstration over 110 Acres of land with all the technologies related to agriculture and allied enterprises.

The inauguration took place by the auspicious hands of Hon’ble Chief Minister of Maharashtra Shri. Devendra Fadanvis,

Hon’ble Agriculture Minister of Maharashtra Shri. Eknath Khadase, Hon’ble Former Union Agriculture Minister Shri. Sharad

Pawar, Hon’ble Shri. Guardian Minister of Pune Girish Bapat, Mr. Ajit Pawar, Ex- Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, in

gracious presence of Mr. Vikas Deshmukh, Commissioner of Agriculture, Maharashtra, Mr. Jayant Deshmukh, Director,

ATMA, Mr. Saha , Chief General Manager, NABARD, Pune, Dr. Rathod, DG, IMD, New Delhi, Dr. Sudam Adsul, Director,

NMH, Pune, Mr. Chari Appaji, In-charge- Director, ATARI, Hyderabad, Mr. Katkar, SAO, Pune, Mr. Sunil Borkar, PDATMA,

and other dignitaries .

Arial View of all Krushik Expo-2015 Live Demonstrations Plots organized by Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Baramati

KRUSHIK 2015 - Inaugurated by Hon. Chief Minister of Maharashtra Mr. Devendra Fadanavis, Hon. Agriculture Minister of Maharashtra Mr. Eaknath Khadase, Hon. Ex- Union Agriculture Minister Mr. Sharad Pawar, Hon. Guardian Minister of Pune Girish Bapat and other dignitaries.

Visit of Hon’ble Chief Minister of Maharashtra Mr. Devendra Phadanavis to Live Demo Plots. On the 1st day of Krushik the Inauguration was done at KVK Instructional Farm followed by dignitaries’ visits to the

activities undertaken during KRUSHIK. A formal inaugural function and addresses of dignitaries held at Appasaheb Pawar

Auditorium. Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Baramati is known to be a pioneer in ICT so during this function three Mobile

Applications were launched by the Dignitaries. Letter of Agreement pertaining to IMD for sending mobile advisory services

to the farmers was signed by the hands of Hon’ble Chief Minister of Maharashtra Mr. Devendra Fadnavis, Mobile

Application on water budgeting was launched by Hon’ble Agriculture Minister of Maharashtra Mr. Eknath Khadase, another

mobile application namely Madhu Sandesh for making awareness about honey bee as pollinator was launched by Hon’ble

Guardian Minister of Pune M.S Girish Bapat.

Mobile Application on water budgeting was launched during Krushik Expo by Hon. Mr. Devendra Fadnavis Chief Minister of Maharashtra.

Hon. Chief Minister during his speech highlighted that KVK, Baramati is the best KVK in India and he suggested other

institute to work on line of Agricultural Development Trust and KVK, Baramati. Hon. Agricultural Minister insisted that

State Agril. Department will take the help of KVK, Baramati for implementing various project related to sustainable

development in Agriculture. Hon. Mr. Sharad Pawar Ex Union Agriculture Minister suggested the farmers to utilize all the

innovative technologies demonstrated in the live demonstration.

Hon. Ex-Agriculture Union Minister Mr. Sharad Pawar addressing the farmers during Krushik Inauguration.

More than 400 companies participated in this event by showing their technologies in the form of Live Demonstration,

Machinery and equipment demonstrations, Agri. Exhibition stall, Seminar, Video shows, Animal Show etc. In addition to

these 10 agriculture universities, research stations also participated in the event and show cased their technologies.

Seminar and Conferences:

On 7th November Sugar Conference was organized in collaboration with Baramati Agro Sugar Ltd. Chairman’s, Director’s,

Officials and Members of the sugar factories had participated and taken advantage of this event for addressing their

common problems. The conference was inaugurated by Hon. Member of Rajya Sabha Mr. Sharad Pawar, Mr. Harshavardhan

Patil, Ex. Minister of Marketing and Cooperation, Mr. Jayant Patil, Ex. Minister of Rural Development Govt. of Maharashtra.

Problems of sugarcane cultivation in Maharashtra

1. Low productivity

2. High water requirement for cultivation in flood irrigation

3. Water shortage in summer

4. Poor management practices

5. Low income and high cost of production

Objective of sugar conference:

1. To show improved cultivation practices.

2. To promote fertigation and drip irrigation for sugarcane for efficient water use and reduce water requirement

3. To promote Water storage technology

4. To organize group discussion and interaction amongst the sugarcane growers

5. Demonstrate different intercropping techniques to minimize cost of production

Sugar conference organized during KRUSHIK 2015 Agri Expo

During this conference, discussion was made on Mechanization in sugarcane, Market prizes and use of improved techniques

like drip irrigation and Fertigation technology for efficient use of water and fertilizers in sugarcane ,use of different

intercrops in sugarcane to minimize the cost on production to utilizes of space between two rows for initial three months.

Intercropping of Cabbage in Sugarcane Crop

Likewise on 8th November Seminar on Export oriented Grape and Pomegranate technology was organized and farmers from

all over Maharashtra had participated in these seminars. Special lounge for interaction and net working was organized in

the form of Seminar. Direct dialogue with Government officials and policy makers was undertaken.

During KRUSHIK 1.01 Lakh Farmers registration was made and 2.82 lakhs farmers had taken gate pass so by general

calculation the total visitors count was more than 4.12 lakhs in three days. Farmers were demanding to continue the event

for 2 more days but it was not possible due to Diwali period.

Local Farmers49%

Farmers from Maharashtra

49%

Farmers from outside Maharashtra

2%

Region wise farmers attended at Krushik 2015

Farmers from all over India visited KRUSHIK Live Demo cum Agri Expo

KRUSHIK was organized on the basis of PPP mode and was sponsored by NABARD, ATMA Finolex, Mahindra Tractors, Jain

Irrigation Systems, K F Bioplants, IFFCO, PDCC Bank, Dept of Agriculture, Johndeere etc. The Agricultural Exhibition was

organized in two different Halls viz. AC & Non-AC Halls where totally 248 companies displayed their products in

Exhibition.

Exhibition Stalls during KRUSHIK EXPO 2015

Machinery and equipment exhibition were undertaken by demonstration of various companies in the form of tractors,

harvesters, processing machines, spraying and dusting machine, irrigation system, solar system etc.

Live Demonstration of Mechanization in Agriculture

On the basis of seeing is believing principle Demonstration of different recent Technology are as follows:

Integrated Farming System model – Agriculture, Water storage tank, fishery, poultry, horticulture, Vegetable,

pulses and cereal crops.

Vegetables like chilly, Brinjal, Tomatoes, finger lings etc on raised bed with mulch film and micro irrigation system.

Cereals and Pulses on raised bed with Drip irrigation system.

Horticulture crops like High Density mango, guava plantation.

Flowers and Cut Flowers on open field.

Banana on drip irrigation and skirting bags technology.

Green Houses for Gerbera, carnation, Dutch roses and cucumber colored capsicum.

Hydroponics for vertical farming

Automatic Drip Irrigation system.

Water storage tank with solar floating panels.

Multi cut Fodder crops on drip irrigation system.

Wind solar hybrid system for Energy Generation.

125 Agricultural Equipments

Nursery for supply of fruit crop plants and sugarcane seedlings

Rice cultivation on raised bed with mulch film and Drip irrigation system.

High Density Maize Cultivation

Different breed of poultry for back yard poultry farming.

Fishery, Hatchery and Ornamental Fishery

Apiary for using Honey bee as pollinator and for Honey Production

Loose housing system for crossbred Cows

Silage making demonstration

Fodder harvesting machines

Agricultural Development Trust’s KVK, Baramati has promoted Agriculture and allied enterprises like Dairy farming, Poultry,

Goat farming, Sericulture etc. during the event.

Farmers have to utilize Water for Agriculture very carefully hence Trust has demonstrated and promoted Micro irrigation

system on large scale at Agricultural Development Trust ,Baramati and organized Exposure visit and training program for

the farmers. In drought prone area of Maharashtra water storage tank technology is more important hence ADT Baramati

has Demonstrated plastic water storage tank Technology at our Farm and it is promoted in the area. Now farmers in our

area have more than 1000 water storage tanks for storage of water.

Banana3%

Bhendi1%

Bio fertilizers / Organic fertilizers

5%

Capsicum4%

Crop covers 1%

Cucumber1%

Drip irrigation7%

Dusting Machine1%

Farm pond4%

Fertilizers 3%

Flower crop3%

Fodder7%

Hydroponics1%IFS Model

3%

Jowar1%

Maize & Maize Varieties

3%

Organic / Organic growth hormones

5%

Polyhouse Capsicum1%

Polyhouse carnation

1%

Polyhouse Cucumber

1%Polyhouse Gerbera

1%

Polyhouse Rose1%

Polyhouse Tomato1%

Rabi Jowar3%

Seedlings of vegetable & flowers

1%

Shade net Poly tunnel1%

Solar Machine1%

Solar pump

1%

Solar traps 1%

Soybean Sprinkler irrigation

1%

Sprayer Machine1%

Sugarcane / Sugarcane inter crops

9%

Sunflower1%

Tomato5%

Watermelon3%

chilly1%

Traps 1%

Vegetable crops cover / Vegetable varieties

5%Gourds

1%

Demo Plots Allocation at Krushik 2015

Animals Exhibition: - Animal Exhibition was organized to promote the Deshi breed of cattle. Khillar cattle breed is famous

in Maharashtra for draft purpose so competition for Khillar breed was organized and total 74 bulls and cows were

participated in the event.

Animal Exhibition during Krushik Expo 2015.

Total 19 prizes and one champion of champion prize given to the Khillar breed. Deoni form Latur, Lal Khandari from

Nanded, Sahiwal from Mulshi, Gir and Kankrej from Indapur Distict Pune were participated. Goat breed like Shirohi, African

Boer, Jamanapari, Beetel and Narisuvarna sheep are also participated in the exhibition, Poultry breed like Vanaraja,

Grampriya, Giriraja, Shrinidhi was the special attraction of the farmers during the Exhibition as these poultry breeds are

suitable for back yard poultry farming.

Farmers from Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Goa, Chhattisgarh and other states

had participated in this event and taken the advantages of various innovative technologies.

Next edition of Krushik Expo will be organized during January 19 – 22, 2017 at Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Baramati.