Central State Farm, Suratgarh
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| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Founded 📆 | |
| Founder 👔 | Government of India |
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Key people | Dr. Pankaj Kumar Tyagi |
| Products 📟 | Agriculture |
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Number of employees | 501 |
| Parent | National Seed Corporation |
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Central State Farm, Suratgarh[1][2][3](CSF, Suratgarh) is an Indian state-owned agricultural and horticultural public undertaking. It is owned by the National Seed Corporation and produces seeds for distribution to farmers and demonstrates methods of cultivation. CSF, Suratgarh is one of five CSF under the National Seed Corporation. The National Seed Corporation comes under Mini Ratna[4] category of Government of India public undertakings.
History[edit]
Central State Farm, Suratgarh was founded in Suratgarh, Rajasthan, India in 1956.[5] Government of India established a State Farm at Suratgarh, a semi-desert area in the Ganganagar district of Rajasthan on an experimental basis. The farm was established on about 12000 hectares of land in August 1956.
The main objective of this 37 km long farm, with a width varying between 2 and 6 km, is to produce seeds for distribution to farmers, to demonstrate methods of cultivation, to develop a citrus orchard and a nursery for the supply of selected stock, to produce pedigreed bulls and distribute them, in order to upgrade livestock, to develop the Bikaner breed of sheep which yields a variety of carpet wool, to establish poultry farms. A thirty mile long sheltering belt and wind-breaker was made to check sand dunes and the farm's entire acreage -about 8846 hectares- was brought under cultivation within three years. Gram, mustard, wheat, cotton, Jaya rice, moong, sugar beet and sugarcane crops are grown.
The Soviets provided equipment in 1959 to set up maintenance shops, which carry out repairs of all kinds in the farm area. Machinery and equipment worth about Rs 12.5 million in all were provided to India for the Suratgarh farm by Soviet Union. India also purchased some farm machinery for cotton and maize-sowing and for harvesting potatoes from the Soviet Union for the Suratgarh farm.
The Suratgarh farm employs about 580 permanent workers. Permanent farm hands are provided with accommodation, school transport and medical services.
The Government of India examined the economies of large-scale farming in Suratgarh. A committee was appointed by the Government of India to evaluate large-scale farming in 1959. The Committee recommended to set up new farms in the State sector in Jetsar, Raichur (Karnataka), Aralam (Kerala), Hisar (Haryana), Ladhowal (Punjab).[5] Russian machinery museum inaugurated by Union Minister of State for agriculture Gajender Singh shekhawat and his Russian Counterpart Sergey Beletskiy in 2018 in Suratgarh Farm.[6]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Central State Farm Suratgarh". Manphool Singh, Ramachandran Mullappally. 2017-04-19.
- ↑ "agriculture cooperation" (PDF). Unknown parameter
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|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 5.0 5.1 Singh, Rama Shankar (1989). Indo-Soviet Cooperation and India's Economic Development. Deep & Deep Publ. ISBN 978-81-7100-134-7. Search this book on
- ↑ "Suratgarh museum: Russian machinery museum inaugurated in Suratgarh". The Times of India. February 15, 2018. Retrieved 2020-12-13.
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