Soil & Water Testing Laboratory
25,000+ farmers
A mobile laboratory that tests soil and irrigation water for farmers across Dahanu and Palghar, returning nutrient readings and crop recommendations. More than 25,000 farmers have used it.
Outreach
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.
25,000+
Farmers served by the soil laboratory
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 actually act on — what to add, how much, and when. For a smallholder, that is the difference between guessing at fertiliser and knowing.
Programmes
What the trust runs
Alongside its five colleges, on the same campus.
Sumedh Agro Nursery
A working nursery raising grafted and seedling stock for local growers, and a teaching resource for agriculture students.
Polyhouse Training
Protected-cultivation training for farmers moving into high-value horticulture under polyhouse and shade-net structures.
Cold Storage & Ripening Chamber
Post-harvest storage and a controlled ripening chamber, run as a training facility for farmers handling chikoo and other perishables.
Garment Manufacturing Training
Skill training in cutting, stitching and finishing, giving women in the surrounding villages a route into paid work.
Ambulance Service
An ambulance maintained by the trust and made available to the villages around the campus.
“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.”
V. M. Patil Krushi Pratishthan