AGRI TOURISM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, INDIA
Founded in 2005 by Pandurang Taware ,entrepreneur and descendant of a farming community, Agri Tourism Development Corporation (ATDC) is a company that facilitates agricultural tourism in the Indian state of Maharashtra. With a stagnating Indian agricultural industry, farmers across Maharashtra are looking at agri-tourism as a means of diversifying business opportunities and securing a viable livelihood.
Following a phase of research and an initial pilot programme in the village of Baramati in 2005, ATDC now has 500 trained farmers and 307 agri-tourism locations across the state of Maharashtra. Since the inception of the programme, farmers ac...