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About · Centre of Excellence & R&D farm

Where protocols are proven, before they reach your farm.

The BhoomiSeva Centre of Excellence brings together the best minds, proven technologies and respected institutions. Its R&D farm at Walki, Ahilyanagar, is where every protocol is tried on our own soil first, and where the people who guide farmers are trained.

8 acresR&D farm at Walki, Ahilyanagar
402crops with a protocol
4protocol layers tested: root, leaf, soil, water

Why a Centre of Excellence

We did not reinvent what already works.

India already has world-class science: decades of bio-input research, certified soil-testing methods, and agricultural universities with long field records. What the farmer lacked was one system that put it all to work on his acre.

The Centre of Excellence is that system's workshop. It brings the science of our partners together, turns it into crop-wise protocols a farmer can follow, and tests them in the field before they are recommended.

Every protocol, every training module and every Kendra process goes through the Centre first. Only what works on our own farm goes out to yours.

What the Centre does

Three jobs: prove, train, show.

Prove

Protocols are tried on the R&D farm, crop by crop and season by season, with soil and leaf tests recorded at every stage.

Train

Kendra operators, field officers and BhoomiRakshaks learn the protocol, the soil test and the season record here before they guide a single farmer.

Show

Farmers, partners and institutions walk the plots and see the difference for themselves, instead of taking our word for it.

Inside the R&D farm

How a protocol earns its place.

A protocol reaches a farmer only after it has been through the same five steps on our own soil.

  1. 1

    Test the soil first

    A Bhu-Vision soil test and Soil Health Card for every plot, before anything is sown.

  2. 2

    Plant side by side

    The protocol plot is grown next to a plot on the usual practice, so the comparison is fair.

  3. 3

    Record every stage

    Root, leaf, soil and water layers applied on schedule, with leaf tests and field notes at each crop stage.

  4. 4

    Measure the harvest

    Yield and quality measured at harvest, and the soil tested again to see what changed.

  5. 5

    Refine and release

    What we learn goes back into the crop protocol and the Kendra training, before it reaches farmers.

A farmer standing at the gate of neatly planted vegetable plots
Illustrative image. Farm photographs will be added.

The science behind it

Built on the work of trusted institutions.

WarkemBio-input research, manufacturing and field agronomy support for the protocol
HiMediaThe Bhu-Vision soil-testing device used at every Kendra
VSI, PuneVasantdada Sugar Institute field validation of the sugarcane result
ICARCertified method behind the 45-minute Bhu-Vision soil test
UniversitiesMPKV Rahuri, Dr BSKKV Dapoli and Dr PDKV Akola field validations
KVKsKrishi Vigyan Kendra trials with farmers in the field

Training

Everyone who guides a farmer is trained here first.

The same protocol, the same soil test and the same season record, taught the same way, so a farmer gets the same quality of guidance in every district.

  • Kendra operators
  • Field officers
  • BhoomiRakshaks
  • Bhu-Vision soil testing
  • Chemist partners
  • District Partner teams

Join a training batch

Training is part of every Kendra, BhoomiRakshak and District Partner onboarding.

Run a KendraBecome a BhoomiRakshak

Plan a visit

Come and see the plots.

Farmers, partners, institutions and students are welcome at the R&D farm, by appointment. Send your details on WhatsApp and we will fix a date.

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We guide. The farmer grows. The family books ahead.

Ask BhoomiSathi on WhatsApp, or find the Kendra nearest to you — the first soil test is where it starts.