INTRODUCTION

The momentum in the indian agricultural sector is changing for the better with positive demand and supply scenarious ensuring the rapid growth of the sector for the next several years. However, lack of scale and an integrated channel to link the "farm gate to the food plate" has prevented the transfer of the desired technology,infrastructure,materials to the farmers thus adversely affecting the availability of required processing varieties of farm produce to the industry. Realizing the need to address the above challenges and oasis of opportunities,AURA Greenport Privated Limited has embarked on the development of "Integrated Agro Food Parks" (IAFP) in Gujrat with strategic partnership with Wageningen University and Research Center, the Netherlands and Yes Bank Limited.

Why Gujarat

Viewing Gujarat as one of the leading states in production of diversified agri commodities not in india but also at global level and also one of the fastest growing markets for consumption of food products in India,AURA Greenport has proposed to develop IAFP at Santalpur Which is the western most taluka of patan district in Gujrat which falls under the Palanpur - Sidhpur - Mehsana Industrial Region along the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor(DMIC) alignment. A low polution area , Santalpur is connected with national highway and railway and is a region monicropped with low agricultural yield. With such an ambitioun project coming up on acreage of 2500 acres with an investment of appapproximately INR 9800 crores, the region would see the transformation from an under-developed region to a developed region.