Gandhinagar : His Highness Prince Rahim Aga Khan V, who is visiting India from Sep 9 to 15, will be in Gujarat on Sep 11 and 12. Sources said he is scheduled to meet Gujarat chief minister Bhupendra Patel and governor Acharya Devvrat on Sep 11.
Since it establishment in 1983, AKRSP has expanded its network to 17 districts of Gujarat. Over the past decades, more than 70,000 farmers have benefited through irrigation works, more than 3,000 water harvesting structures have been developed and over 6,000 biogas systems have been installed. In addition, more than 75,000 farmers have been supported to transition to natural farming, over 200 solar-based irrigation systems have been installed by the institution and it has also facilitated more than 20,000 farmers to be engaged in fruit orchards and vegetable cultivation.
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