Itinerary: A 28 day itinerary from desert to jungle covering the agricultural States of Punjab in the North, Rajasthan in the West and Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh in Central India. Today, India ranks second worldwide in farm output and has the world’s largest cattle population with around 300 million head. India accounts for 10% of world fruit production and is the world’s largest producer of fresh fruit. Although India is the second largest world producer of wheat and rice the population of 1.15 billion is growing faster than India’s ability to keep up with production.
Highlights: As with all Australian Farmers Tours we’ll get off the tourist track visiting, sheep, beef, dairying and cropping properties. Apart from these valuable on-farm and technical visits the tour has been designed as a business trip, which may qualify as a tax-deductible expense. To this end your tour leader Greg Cahill will maintain a detailed daily diary for you to submit with your income tax return. However, it is not all work and no play as the tour includes leisure time for shopping and bargain hunting in India’s renowned bazaars, seeing the magnificent Taj Mahal at sunset as well as tracking tigers and other wildlife on game safaris in two of India’s well know National Park wildlife reserves plus much, much more.
Tour Cost: Flying with Singapore Airlines the tour cost is fully inclusive of airfares, all breakfasts, most lunches and dinners and staying at mostly 4 star hotels.
Tour Leader: Greg Cahill is currently an Agricultural Consultant in Bendigo having spent over 35 years with the Victorian Department of Agriculture working on a diverse range of industries across Victoria, including dairying, sheep, cereals and beef. During this time he was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship to study farm diversification in the United States and Great Britain. He is author of two books, “ Don’t Dream It - Do It. Making money from new farm ideas” and “160 New Farming Enterprises and Ideas.” Greg was also a journalist for the Weekly Times, writing case stories for their monthly Farm magazine. Greg Cahill led the highly acclaimed 2008 Australian Farmers China Tour, in 2009 the 23-Day Egypt Farming Tour and in 2011 a 36-Day South American Farming Tour to Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Peru. Once again Greg will be accompanied by his wife Maree.
About Us: Australian Farmers Travel, registered in Victoria and owned and operated by Andrew Curry is Australia’s leading agricultural tour operator. It commenced in 1973 as a service to primary producers and shareholders of the then major rural co-operatives Victorian Producers’ (now Elders), Westralian Farmers (now AWB Landmark), Primaries (now Elders), Gippsland and Northern, Bennetts Farmers and Farmers & Graziers. Our tours offer the chance to see how farming is practised worldwide and also provide a sense of fellowship and a chance to meet other farm families from all over Australia. Friendships formed on an Australian Farmers Tour often last a lifetime. We value the loyalty of our past tour members and appreciate the fact that many of them continue to book with us year after year. We feel this is a mark of the quality of our tours and tour leaders and we continue to strive to attain the high standards that we set ourselves. |
