The center is a new facility of Nimbkar Agricultural
Research
Institute (NARI) - a rural NGO situated in Maharashtra, India. It
is a residential research and
teaching facility, which provides intellectual discussions and debate
regarding problems and possible solutions for rural India. It is
situated
on
the
campus of the head office.
NARI does research and development in
agriculture, alternative energy, animal husbandry and sustainable
development. It believes that sustainable rural
development can be
achieved through
the use of sophisticated science and technology to efficiently and
holistically
convert locally available materials into useful end products. It also
believes that the corporate world should play an important role in
this.
A brochure of the center can be downloaded from here.