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Source: Maharashtra Pollution Control Board
Four kilometers separate Manjari from Pune. Here is where
Vasantdada Sugar Institute (VSI), originally Deccan Sugar Institute,
is situated. It is the only organisation of its sort in the world and
was founded in 1975 by sugarcane farmer members of cooperative
sugar plants in the State of Maharashtra. All scientific, technical,
and educational tasks about the sugar business are carried out by the
Institute under one roof. The Institute works to advance the sugar
sector on all fronts, and to do so, it uses three main operating axes:
academic, extension, and research and development.
A village called Loni Kalbhor is located on the Pune-Sholapur route
not far from Pune. Here is where the Rama Krishi Rasayan fertiliser
factory and an electronics component manufacturer are situated.
Theur: One of the Ashta Vinayak temples is in this historically
significant area. This town has a distillery and a sugar factory, both
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