Seeing is Believing

Exposure to agro-processing and exports

• Processing and value addition of spices.
• Quality standards and export compliance.
• Market systems, auctions, and buyer linkages.
• Traceability, sustainability, and trade practices.

Women farmers and FPO exposure in Nashik

The NABARD AEFC Jodhpur–Nashik Agri Export Promotion Initiative in April 2025 brought women FPO representatives, agripreneurs, and organic farmers into direct contact with export systems, processing, packaging, logistics, and certification.

Thar Anar Shodh Yatra

Exposure visits across Maharashtra helped progressive farmers from western Rajasthan learn modern pomegranate cultivation, export standards, grading, packhouse operations, and market linkage opportunities.

Connecting farmers, knowledge, and markets

• Improved production technologies.
• Stronger value chains.
• Post-harvest and export-oriented awareness.
• INM, IPM, multi-stage harvesting, grading, and packaging.

Cross-district fennel knowledge exchange

Programs like the Jodhpur–Pali–Sirohi and Nagaur–Sirohi Kisan Samriddhi Yatras demonstrated improved fennel varieties, precision practices, multi-stage harvesting, low-cost shade drying, and value chain integration.

These initiatives addressed poor seed quality, pest issues, traditional drying constraints, and weak post-harvest systems through practical demonstration-based learning.

Exposure visit for agriculture students

Students from the College of Agriculture, Nagaur participated in a field immersion on 24 February 2026 to observe demonstration plots, Abu Saunf-440 cultivation, scientific crop management, IPM, multiple harvest systems, and market-linked quality parameters.

From Kachholi to Khajwana

The Nagaur transformation story shows how farmer-led adaptation of Sirohi practices, including paired-row planting, integrated pest management, multiple umbel harvesting, and shade drying, can produce premium fennel and improve income.

Regeneration of Nagauri Paan Methi

A pilot initiative in Khajwana village focuses on reintroducing pure, high-quality seeds, improving seed replacement rates, restoring aroma and quality, and rebuilding the seed-to-market value chain for better income realization.

Biotech Kisan and field-level interventions

Field days, brainstorming initiatives, farmers' fairs, and demonstration programs advanced Good Agricultural Practices, IPM, export readiness, farmer collectivization, and recognition pathways for Nagauri Paan Methi.