Community
Education That Reaches Beyond the Campus
Community development
Work that is not for the enrolled.
The trust runs a set of programmes for people who are not its students at all: farmers, growers and women in the villages around Asangaon. This is the part of its work it is best known for locally.
Students take part in much of this work — and learn, in the process, what their education is for.
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Agriculture initiatives
Modern methods, shared openly.
Free soil testing camps, polyhouse training and post-harvest facilities help farmers across Dahanu and Palghar adopt better practices — alongside the agriculture students of Krishi Tantra Niketan.
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Soil & water testing
A laboratory that goes to the field.
The trust’s soil and water testing laboratory is mobile. It travels to villages across Dahanu and Palghar, takes samples from the root zone, and returns nutrient readings with a recommendation the grower can act on: what to add, how much, and when. More than 25,000 farmers have used it.
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Sumedh Agro Nursery
Healthy stock for local growers.
A working nursery raising grafted and seedling stock for local growers, and a teaching resource for agriculture students.
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Polyhouse training
Protected cultivation for high-value crops.
Protected-cultivation training for farmers moving into high-value horticulture under polyhouse and shade-net structures.
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Cold storage & ripening chamber
Less waste after harvest.
Post-harvest storage and a controlled ripening chamber, run as a training facility for farmers handling chikoo and other perishables.
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Skill development
Garment manufacturing training for women.
Skill training in cutting, stitching and finishing gives women in the surrounding villages a route into paid work.
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Rural outreach
Care that reaches the villages.
An ambulance maintained by the trust is made available to the villages around the campus, and free camps take the trust’s services to farmers’ doorsteps.
“Soil & Water Testing Laboratory is one more initiative taken by the organisation for the benefit of the farmers, through which more than 25 thousand farmers have benefited.”
Impact
Measured in harvests, skills and livelihoods.
25,000+
Farmers served by the soil lab
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Community programmes
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Farmers trained in polyhouse cultivation
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Women trained in garment skills
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Partner in rural development.
Farmers, organisations and volunteers are welcome to connect with VMPKP's community initiatives.