Jalgaon (Maharashtra)-based agro, pipes, processed foods and irrigation major Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd, which has won Unesco’s Water Conserver Award and the International Finance Corporation honour for its inclusive, sustainable business model, has been working with small farmers in Haiti and has now been invited by several African nations to help them out.

“In Haiti we are working with the Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation and Coca-Cola for developing a business model for small farmers,” Dilip Kulkarni, president Agro Foods, Jain Irrigation, told IANS on phone from Boston, Massachusetts.

Kulkarni, who was in Boston last week to present the company’s business model at an agriculture symposium at the Harvard Business School, said: “We have developed a technology for mango production in Haiti where Coca-Cola is launching a beverage called Haiti Hope.”

Jain Irrigation, he said, was giving technical support in terms of agronomy, technology of cultivation and starting a food processing unit in Haiti. The processing unit may, however, take a couple of years more to come up due to the conditions there.................Click for more

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