Pandurang Taware

Father of Agri Tourism in India 
Fourth generation farmer and first generation entrepreneur is natively
from small village sanghavi in Baramati Taluka, born and brought up in joint family of 50 members. His
childhood was immersed fully in farms and village, playing with domestic animals, taking them to graze,
washing buffalo’s, and playing all kinds of rural games. His father’s desire was that Mr Pandurang should
study in agriculture and do some work for betterment of the farming communities in India. In 2003 he married agriculture
with tourism and launched Agri Tourism Development Corporation (ATDC) with model Agri tourism
Centre in Baramati. After running Agri tourism operations successfully for one year, he took on training
and skill development in Agri tourism for other farmers in Maharashtra, as of Mar 2020 he has replicated
this idea of Agri Tourism on 628 farms in more than 131 villages in Maharashtra